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Beat the Heat in Shanghai 　　You have taken a shower， put on your suit， your shoes are shining and you are ready to head of to the office. You walk for two minutes and you can feel the heat boiling in your entire body while the drops of perspiration slowly roll down from your face and down to your neck. When you finally get to the office you do not exactly look or feel the same as when you left your home. You look like someone who has been running an entire marathon and there is nothing to do about it. This is the experience a lot of peo-ple and especially a lot of the 210，000 expats living in Shanghai probably have had several days this summer. 　　Particularly this summer has been special when it comes to the heat. The weather reached 40.6 degrees in July， which is a record in Shanghai. Last time it was this hot was in 1873 where it reached 40.2 degrees. For 24 days in a row Shanghai has had at least 35 degrees every single day and the heat is expected to continue for one more week. About 11 people have unfortunately lost their lives due to the extreme heat. But how can you handle such a hot and humid weather？ Is there any ways you can make it more bearable？ 　　“It was horrible” 　　William Le Houreou who is a 20-year old business intern in Shanghai expected China to be very hot but he was still surprised when he got here. William Le Houreou is from Paris， France， and is not used to the heat above 30 degrees： 　　“I felt horrible. I can’t bear temperatures above 30° so it’s been really hard to get use to it. I’m going to stay here for another month and I know it will be hard if it gets warmer. I feel like I’m sweating con-stantly，” William Le Houreou explains. 　　He clarifies that even though it can get hot in Paris as well it is still different in Shanghai because of the humidity and because of the constant heat： “at least in Paris it cools down at night. Here the heat never stops，” he says. 　　Even though the heat has been hard on William Le Houreou he believes tha