Temperatures: indoors, outdoors and bodily

Winter hasn't come to Ahmedabad yet. It was supposed to, but cooler weather was instead put off for some time. Only time will tell when weather and calendar will again function not as separate entities but in harmony with one another. To answer your question here and now: it's 36 degrees centigrade. This, however, is only outdoors. In the classrooms the ACs are working on all thrusters, creating an artificial climate that is incapable of reaching anything above 21 degrees. That's a 15 degree temperature difference that I'm exposed to several times daily and which certainly has health repercussions. One really wouldn't expect to catch colds here this frequently, causing annoying disruptions to my several-times-weekly football games, but here we are.

Luckily, my room is only equipped with a gentle ceiling fan, which provides a little bit of relief from the murderous coolers in other parts of the campus. The only trade off is the constant dilemma of which humming level to set it on in order for it not to wake you at night but still drown out the sounds of the campus dogs trying to kill one another, or fighting the campus monkeys - actually quite possible judging from the sounds sometimes emitted. Decisions, decisions...