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 I’m sitting in the basement, waiting for a Twenix class.  I’ve had one already this morning. I learned about the famous football academy in Barcelona and the Catalan custom of human towers:

Why can’t they do this in Brandon?

The Red Lion Bar in Wuxi is experiencing drama.  The Australian founders say they were pushed out; the Chinese partners say the Ozzies left with all the money.

The Sam’s Club in Wuxi

 People ask me if the Sam’s Club down the road from the Ivy Park apartment is open.  It isn’t.  But here is how it looks at the moment.  My wife sent me these photos.

The Wuxi Sun and The Brandon Sun

 I have said it and my son Tony has noticed it.  The sun here in Manitoba is more intense.  You can really feel on your skin when you walk outdoors here.  Even though, the temperature is 22 C, Tony says it feels like 30 C and very muggy.

In Wuxi, China, it was very humid.  In high Summer there, I would have the sweat flow into my forehead so as to blind me.  I was surprised, though, when my students told me that they had never experienced being sunburnt.  I mean, it was so bloody, oppressively hot.  Often, in the high 30 Cs. But the sun was never intense as it is here.  I mean, you can feel the sun's rays on your skin when you walk about Brandon in Summer.  Never in Wuxi, where it felt like you were in a furnace; not like you were in an intense tanning booth like you are here.

I can't help myself,  I shouldn't talk politics but I can't avoid.  My mother playing CBC radio for me is only make my more cynical.  The way they use language to frame issues is so biased, as I said in the previous entry.