I've felt very out of touch at school recently after being up stairs in the English room doing speaking tests all week. I don't have to spend time preparing anything for class and rarely come down to the teachers room. As it really starts to become summer here, the teachers room, full of computers, easily becomes the hottest room in the school, and that also keeps me away. The rooms on the third floor can get really hot in the middle of the day too, but with all the windows open, it's usually bearable. Before leaving Texas, I never spent much of the summer with no air conditioner. Of course when camping, we didn't have it in the tents or cabins, but the week long camps often had it in the main buildings. When I went to Seattle, we didn't have AC in any of the buildings...well, maybe the nurse's office. But it wasn't really needed. The mornings were usually cold and the warm afternoons weren't anywhere as near as hot as Texas. I wasn't even completely AC free after coming to Japan until starting work at a public school. The private school I worked at was in a shopping complex and though they turned the AC off at 7 and we had to suffer the heat two hours after that, we had AC and heating most of the time. The school I'm at now has no real need for any climate control most of the year. A couple of months in the winter we use large kerosene stoves to heat the classrooms, but the hallways and bathrooms are unheated (and the toilet water occasionally freezes). Because of the ever changing temperatures at school, I always have to dress accordingly. In the winter I tend to carry an extra jacket and in the summer I wear something light unless it rains (and the temperature plummets). Being spoilt by the constant temperature at work before, I didn't have different work appropriate clothes for the different kinds of weather when I came to this school and I have since then used it as a very good excuse to buy clothes.