Summer winding down.

• It is the end of Summer and the busy time for us here at HyLite International Language School in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. The Summer School students, who are mostly middle school, high school and university students go back to their normal schools. We will teach mostly adults and company classes for the next ten months.
• When Fall comes, I will be taking my Electric bike to work four times a week.
• Tony likes my mobile phone which I am reluctant to let him play with because he has already broken my wife's.
• The Expats will be arguing about the effects of the Olympics on China's future for the next little while.
• Topic for my Speakers' Corner this afternoon: Do you wish there is a heaven and hell?
• It will be another couple months before Ronnie's Australian Pub re-opens or so I have been told.
• The Duke of Wuxi heads off to London for two weeks. Just as we happen to have a VIP student who will go to London to study piano.
• Tony watching the Teletubbies, suddenly started giggling. What makes him laugh is a mystery. Sometimes you do something silly and he laughs while other times he does nothing. The fact that children start laughing when they are very young makes me wonder what humour is and why is it that humans laugh. I remember reading a novel about a character from another planet mystified by human laughter suddenly having a revelation that we laughed because life was not perfect, that if we didn't laugh, we would cry. But is that why Children laugh? Tony cries when he doesn't get his way. It seems he has the childish expectation that everything will be as he wants it, that life will be perfect as it will. So why does he laugh? What is his reason? Is it because he is happier than other times? Is it because he has an expectation of how things should be and if they don't affect him personally they are funny?