vacation has finally started but sadly, i wouldn't be able to spend mine in leisure. i've been officially enrolled in that sat preparation/review course and for the whole two months of summer, i'd be studying my bum off. just when i thought i've finally break free from the oppressive chains of studying (even if it's temporary) when i graduated last march, but i guess not. though i can't really complain that much because i wanted this much more than my parents though. i mean, who am i to pass up an opportunity to study abroad? it'd probably suck big time if i get stuck here,so yeah, i guess giving up one summer of my life wouldn't hurt that bad.
probably something more oppressive than books and acads would be the weather right now. now i'm not really sure if it's just here in our country (being in a tropical zone or near the equator and the likes) but this summer's turning out to be one of the hottest summer i've ever been in. it's gotten so hot to the point that i've resolved myself to camping inside my room, with the ac on plus an electric fan, and just lounging around in my bed, playing rockband or anything on the xbox, surfing the net or just reading a book. my mom told me that it's unhealthy for me to stay cooped up all day inside my room not to mention expensive to have the ac on all day so i tried going out for a bit; playing badminton, or chess or even helping her with the garden but i find myself giving up after about an hour or less and rushing to the bathroom to rid myself of the smell of sweat and to cool down as well.
the only fun part in the next few days i guess would be the review, which of course would be held in some air-conditioned room i suppose, where after wards i could lounge in the lib or some fast food restaurant or some book store should i wish to find some recreation. anything to escape the heat.
i just got back from taking water from the fridge and i'm not surprised to report that during the interval from my room to the kitchen, i broke a sweat. like i said, oppressively hot. gosh, how i wish i was in hokkaido or hong kong or anywhere(!) where it's not 40 degress(!) or above. really, the weather's turning out to be stupidly brutal and i think it's melting my brain.
Join the club. I don't get a summer break this year either, although for me it's because school's going to remain open throughout and not because I voluntarily decided to put myself through the torture. And believe me when I say that where I live it's probably much hotter than where you do, the fact that we're farther from the equator notwithstanding. Right now it's afternoon, and I'm guessing the temperature outside is around 40 degrees C(104 degrees F). And it's only April. Last May the highest recorded temperature was 45 degrees C (113 degrees F). We are located on top of a rocky, barren plateau, where the air has about as much moisture as dehydrated space food. If you ever go out in the afternoon the heat in the driveway and in the surrounding rocks would radiate into your face with such intensity that you would almost feel as if you were standing above a fire. This summer is funnily humid (despite what I said about the moisture in the air), and that makes the day all the more unbearable. In our house the air conditioners are typically turned out at about 9, and turned off at night. They're off for a few hours in the middle, but that's only because of the daily blackouts (the government's ingenious "power-saving" policy) and the fact that it does get cold after a while with the air conditioner on.
ReplyDeleteWhew. By the way, this is Kaiser Washington from FFn.
Wow, hellish life much? You go to school during the summer cause your school forces you to and it's hotter where you live. Suddenly, I felt a bit relieved that, despite the fact that I'll be studying during the summer, it was on my own accord and the fact that we rarely reach the 40's. In the temperature I mean. Though this summer is an exception, cause the temp's always around 39-40 in celcius. I so totally agree with that feeling of standing above fire. Well not to that degree, but whenever I walk outside, and the wind gushes to my face, it feels like as if I'm being attacked by smoldering flat irons. Anymore rise in the temperature and I'll call this place Mordor, sans the orcs.
ReplyDeleteWe also have daily black-outs here for the same reasons. -_- Pretty stupid too I think.
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