Leaving the Freezer

I will be heading to Hong Kong via Shenzhen tomorrow, so will be gaining a 35 degree temperature difference!! We've all seen it so many times in movies and travel programmes on TV! Should be a cool place!

One thing to warn unwary travellers to these icy regions, well 2 things. One is that batteries don't function properly in the cold. My camera kept dying with no charge. The solution is to keep your camera in a warm place inside your clothes when not using it. Another thing is that some equipment is just not designed for far-below zero temperatures. I have a thing called a monocular (sort of half a pair of binoculars). It was working before I came here and now it ain't. The lenses and optical components inside it are rattling around. I think the cold temperatures have made the components contract and so the glue binding them together has failed! One lens was slightly loose in Beijing but now the whole thing is broken!

On another note, I got my teaching schedule for next semester. Teaching all first year classes! And guess what, I will be teaching Oral English to the Applied Physics class on Tuesday afternoons!! Strange how things work. For those who don't know, I did a degree in Applied Physic in DCU in Ireland! Home they don't ask me any physics questions, cos I reckon I have forgotten everything I learned in college, and even some stuff I never learned!