To acclimatise

To acclimatize
A     verb
        1     acclimatize, acclimatise, acclimate
                     get used to a certain climate; “They never acclimatized in Egypt”

I would have never imagined that after just 3 years in this country I was going to acclimatise so well. Anything over 25 degrees is now hot for me!

I’ve been to Spain on holiday for a week and I’ve suffered a lot. It has been one of the hottest Augusts in history and even my family was having a rough time. When I called my mum a few days before going and asked her “Is it going to be really hot? I can’t wait for some sunshine”, she said “You’re going to die here”. Of course, I thought she was exagerating, but no, she wasn’t. With temperatures of around 34 degrees everyday and humidity of 75%, life was almost unbereable. I couldn’t sleep at night, I would sweat non-stop, I would get very tired easily… Even after having bought a couple of electric fans for the flat, the heat was intolerable.

I felt sorry for my poor Jon and his parents, because at the end of the day, I am a bit more used to the heat (having lived in Spain all my life). The poor souls wandered around town looking for the shade as kids look for sweets. Not comfortable at all.

Towards the end of the holiday I thought I was acclimatising back again to the Spanish heat, but it was just a trick of the weather as we had a couple of “cooler” days. The last day, when I though I was going to be okay, it got even hotter. I got in the car and sat in front of the air-con without complaining a bit.

So when in my previous post I said “I’ll enjoy the heat of the midday sun” I didn’t really mean it. I didn’t enjoy it at all.

I’ve never been happier to come back to my 20 degrees average

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