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Well, I have been back for a week now and thank goodness my body has finally switched over to Japan-time ~ do you ever have that when you are traveling abroad ~ your body feels confused on which time-frame it should be working on?
Florida is eleven hours behind Japan, so the first few days I found myself wanting to take ‘afternoon naps’ and then go to bed at around eight in the evening. This made things worse, as I would wake up at two in the morning ~ my internal clock kept saying “it’s one o’clock in the afternoon, so you should be up!”, even though is was pitch-black outside (of course it is at 02:00am). I would then do some lesson-preparation and other work on my laptop and stay up. By five o’clock when my friend has to wake up, it already felt like midday to me.
So now it is mainly getting used to the climate change ~ here you have four very different seasons of the year, whereas Florida only has three: “hot ‘n humid”, “very hot ‘n humid” and “I think I’m going to die in this heat ‘n humidity” - ha ha - a slight exaggeration but you get my drift -> ‘autumn clothes’ and ‘winter clothes’ are kind of nonexistent -> last year we had a ‘cold front’ come in for about 4-5 days (the temperature suddenly went down to +-15C from 28C!). I went to buy some gloves and finally found a pair at the fourth store - that’s how hard it is to find ‘winter things’ in Florida.
I hope you are enjoying this long three-day-weekend and I will see you back tomorrow ...
Florida is eleven hours behind Japan, so the first few days I found myself wanting to take ‘afternoon naps’ and then go to bed at around eight in the evening. This made things worse, as I would wake up at two in the morning ~ my internal clock kept saying “it’s one o’clock in the afternoon, so you should be up!”, even though is was pitch-black outside (of course it is at 02:00am). I would then do some lesson-preparation and other work on my laptop and stay up. By five o’clock when my friend has to wake up, it already felt like midday to me.
So now it is mainly getting used to the climate change ~ here you have four very different seasons of the year, whereas Florida only has three: “hot ‘n humid”, “very hot ‘n humid” and “I think I’m going to die in this heat ‘n humidity” - ha ha - a slight exaggeration but you get my drift -> ‘autumn clothes’ and ‘winter clothes’ are kind of nonexistent -> last year we had a ‘cold front’ come in for about 4-5 days (the temperature suddenly went down to +-15C from 28C!). I went to buy some gloves and finally found a pair at the fourth store - that’s how hard it is to find ‘winter things’ in Florida.
I hope you are enjoying this long three-day-weekend and I will see you back tomorrow ...
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