97 degrees. The kind of heat only felt in Florida and Devil's Valley was discovered here in Mannheim today after it somehow remembered what the sun was up there for. After 19 days of nothing but cold, damp, overcast, wonderful weather, the clouds finally clear and we bake for an entire day. It's difficult in the dorms, where the only cooling apparatus I was able to devise was to open a window. I used to wonder how people could die from the heat here in Europe. That was before I realized that here, air conditioning is still largely considered a myth by the superstitious population, or at best unnecessary. Why would you bother to have something installed that you're might use for only two weeks every year?
Thus I have split my time between being languid and wandering aimlessly around in the corridor of my dorm, hoping that the inspiration to do something will strike me. So far, the only thing to strike me have been consecutively worse headaches as I try to find something to worry about. Once I have something to worry about, one part of me thinks, I can do something to alleviate this feeling of anxiety and thereby feel all warm and glowly inside at the thought of having accomplished something. The other part thinks that I've finally lost it.
Yet I have managed to at least update the world upon my deteriorating mental state, although no news of the past weekend in Munich or the week before in Freiburg has been divulged. I suppose I'm just not worried enough about it yet, but soon. I need to do laundry.
5 comments:
yeah i feel your pain...we drove in to lakeland and as soon as we got out of the car we were like "whoah it's hot" it was 101 after church yesterday. it was crazy.and on my missions in atlanta we were on the 3rd floor of a church with no a/c the climb up got hotter as you got higher. i miss playing mbb with u and bud and drew it'll be weird w/out you for another month!!! it kinda stinks alot.
-jp
thats how my new truck is. no air conditioning. bleck. i'll give you a ride when you get back. i wonder if the humidity is as bad there. hmm. anyway, i talked to your mom, and we agreed that you should talk more about what you've seen and learned. so there :] oh and you need to make a phonecall. talk to you later :]
<3 Monica
JP: quit reminding me. I saw a kid with hair just like yours the other day. Sucks to be away from all you guys.
Monica: why is it that whenever I do have a post about my travels, no one comments about it, but when I post about something not so closely related, mutiny breaks out? Not to worry though: I have an account of my Freiburg and Munich trips that are soon forthcoming- A Tale of Two Cities.
you're just having fun keeping us in suspense anout your travels. have you thought of doing a photobucket for your pictures? i would love to see some. try to stay cool...go ride a bike...or go to a lake or river it's usually cooler there.-mom
Good for people to know.
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