After several evenings of comfortable weather, we finally had an incredibly humid one. Not only was I dripping wet while cooking dinner (which was a Tahini Tuna Salad with fresh tuna, not canned) but I created a 3 foot by 3 foot large puddle by wringing out my shirt between basketball games. Genny tried her best to beat the heat without the aid of our power-sucking air conditioner while she studied, but we may cave in and turn it on while we sleep.

The more memorable point of the day was when the power went out on campus and the backup generators didn't kick in. Fortunately, one of the benefits of living in a country frequently hit by hurricanes is that there is an abundance of portable generators ready to be deployed. So before too long the school staff wheeled a couple to the classrooms to help power the lectures. During this time, Will was busy being serenaded by the staff at the campus activity centre while he tried to ignore them and focus on his calculus homework.

The rest of the day consisted of a lot of studying for Genny and working out and basketball for Will. Intramural sports start soon for both of us. Genny is playing on a soccer team this semester and will get to run up and down the field for a couple hours each week, while Will is playing basketball with Foluso Akinradewo (brother of recent US Olympic volleyball player Foluke Akinradewo, John (gangnam style) Lee, and Ismael Gutierrez and Sherief Zamzam, overall a pretty ethnically balanced squad if that counts for anything.

That about sums up our day's worth of activities, other than...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARRIE DERSHIN! We'll try to blow some of this warm air up there to Alaska for you.