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Humidity and Mosquitoes

Last night I had an intense encounter with mosquitoes, I have never been fond of the creatures yet I was never really around them. Back in San Jose, California I maybe dealt with a few here and there but man does China have mosquitoes of all varieties. Last night it had been raining for most of the day, yet it was a good 80 degrees and let me tell you sweating in humidity is not the best of smells. Humidity seems to amplify ones' BO and it does not help that I recently ran out of deodorant. That was my bad so now I have to wait until I get some from home since I cannot seem to find it anywhere around Chongqing.

Well, back to my intense encounter. I was teaching my evening class that goes from 7:30-9:30pm and I decided that it would be a good idea to open up all the windows in my classroom to let some air in. Well about an hour into the class I was getting really sweaty and for some reason I suppose mosquitoes get attracted to sweat. At one point I had mosquitoes falling from my hair and all around my face. Students were swinging their arms in attempts to get the away from their face and from time to time I would hear random screams from some of the girls. I assume that like me they had become the latest victim of a mosquito attack. This morning I counted 48 casualties that unfortunately did not make it back home and unfortunately perished all around my desk area.

Long story short, humidity, sweat and attacks by mosquitoes are something that I was not used to and up until last night it was not a problem.However, it seems like I will have to better prepare myself for tonight's class. I thought that a sky mask would help but maybe just some mosquito repellent might do the trick.

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