Let's talk about the weather

The weather is turning hot here recently.

With the coming of spring, the warmth is to be expected. However, what I did not expect was how hot this place could be!

The past week had been dreadfully like Singapore!! The temperature was as high as 32 degrees and was pretty dry. I would be sweating buckets by the time I come back from school and would have to jump into the shower or take a swig of cold beer to cool me down.

Sometimes I wonder if Singapore was the same, but then, the humidity in Singapore is much higher with the occasional wind and not to mention the obsession with fans and air-conditioning and other what-nots that we use to cool ourselves down. Here, the people don't even know the meaning of a fan. My room only has a heater and so, to get past those warm nights, I sleep with my window wide open, sans blankets. Just don't think about the bugs that come in and it would be fine...

The afternoons are the worst. The sun can be relentless and the dry heat makes one burn up faster than a toaster oven. I think the reason why I might return darker than I left would have more to do with the sun here than my escapades around France and Europe.

Luckily, right now, it is raining. A welcomed reprieve from the usual glaring evening sun in my room. Because my room faces the west, I get a generous dose of the evening sun. Mornings are great for me to sleep in, but the evenings are just too hot for me to even open my window beause the air in my room is much cooler thn the air out there. So, because of this fortunate reprieve, I am going to enjoy my first hot cup of tea since the end of winter and look out at the nice gloomy sky.