6/28/12
I didn’t know it was possible.
Just never experienced it before.
Somehow Wuhan has a way of getting hotter when it rains. Torrential, buckets of rain for days at
a time. And when it starts the
increase in humidity with the stillness of the air creates this sauna. Everyone told me that Wuhan is
hot. One of the four furnaces of
China. No one said it pisses rain
like a broken faucet at the same time.
I can do heat, that’s not that bad, if its dry. But this humidity is getting rough and
summer is just starting. Also, as
a bonus, because school is out for the summer, air conditioning in the school
buildings has been turned off. 72
hours ago the office was an igloo safe house in the humid heat of Wuhan. A nice weekend and the a/c is shutoff
and now the office is sweltering sweat lodge. At rest and dripping sweat.
In
the forecast is rain. Weeklong thundershowers. The rain comes and brings no relief
from the heat. Only compounds the
horrible climate that is Wuhan, one of the four furnaces of China.
My
apartment however, does have air con.
And while the bill is climbing in stride with the heat index, it is wonderful.
At
work we are dealing with a high level of employee disquiet. I think all people should do internships
in the subjects that they study.
Being able to take and be thinking about organizational behavior while
at the same time directly involved in a completely dysfunctional company, its
great to be able to see things unfold alongside each other. I can read something over breakfast and
then consider how this or that theory would apply to the problem at hand. Can even try things on the spot and see
how they work. Direct application
of learning and concepts in real-time.
The Chinese students are almost totally deficient in the world of
experience. Noses pressed to the
books from the moment they start school, but no work or life application, even
from the texts, are encountered.
Until their post graduation world.
Companies want and need creative people, and yet the schools are not
allowed to be creative. And
wouldn’t have the staff or the resources to do so if they wanted.
Plans
are coming together for my trip south.
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