It’s hot season for us: the middle of summer, in a whole new definition of the word.
To give you a taste, I’ll say this: the heat index was 108 degrees Fahrenheit at 5pm last night, and yesterday I reached a new record of showering four times.
It is indescribably hot.
And in our constant whining|empathizing with one another, we have come to three conclusions:
We can determine how hot it is by how many times Stephen forgets to finish his sentences in lieu of ending with, “Gah! It’s so HOT!” Currently this happening about twice a day. For example: “So I was thinking that we should…Gah! It is so HOT!”
We feel like it’s an accomplishment to survive another hot season. It is like it is a test of our will to live here, and each year, when it’s over, it’s like we’ve bought ourselves another “set” of seasons. We’ve passed for the year, I suppose. I don’t know; it doesn’t really make sense. We just determined we both feel that same feeling of having actually accomplished something, just by surviving the heat.
We have decided it will be weird to move away from here someday and just never know this level of heat ever again. How will we reminisce upon it? We imagined ourselves remembering it, but realized that a) once you are out of it, you actually can’t remember it or fathom that level of discomfort–I have this problem every time I go back to the States and try to purchase clothing for the weather here! You just can’t imagine being this unbearably hot when you aren’t. It feels impossible. Really, it felt impossible even today when I sat in it. And b) it will be weird to walk away from such a drastic climate and then just not experience it again. What if we just don’t have to handle this kind of heat ever again {after this unknown, theoretical day in the future when we move back to the US}?
As much as we like our lives here, I will blatantly dream of a day when I sweat only during exercise. And on a high note, we should be just about a month away from surviving our FIFTH hot season here and earning ourselves another rainy season!