Enough with the Hot Weather!!

April 17th, 2008 at 04:49am

Now I remember why I always leave SE Asia well before April. This time of year is just unbearable with the heat; even the Thai people complain about it every day, so it must really be hot! When you see lots of Thais in the ocean, then you know it must be hot – they usually don’t like to swim…but funny enough, when they do go in the water they wear all of their clothing…kind-of funny but they don’t like having dark skin so they wear clothes for sun protection! The real Thais also tend to be quite shy, which is hard to believe really in a country so full of blatant prostitution, but actually it is true!

I recently bought a little thermometer for my bungalow…for the last 4 weeks it has been at steady 32C (90F)…that is inside my bungalow. Well yesterday I finally got around to doing a bit of an experiment, and I put the thermometer out on my veranda at about 4pm…within 10 minutes the temperature was up to 40C (104F). Ugh! No wonder why I was feeling so miserable!

Today inside my bungalow, I’ve hit a new all-time record high of 36C (99F). Don’t really want to know what it was outside…hot, I know that.

This is the only time of year that I struggle without air-conditioning.

There are a few good things about the ‘dry season’ heat, as they call it:

• For one, I can finally have hot water showers, only because my ‘cold water only’ tap gets so hot from the heat all day!
• Second, when I take my clothes off the line, they are so warm that they feel like they just came out of a hot dryer, especially the towels.
• Also I tend to wake up earlier every day because it’s just too hot to stay in bed!
• I can take frequent trips to the 7-11 across the road just to have a browse, but mainly to cool down for awhile.
• I look forward with every day to moving on to the next season!!

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