The weather is crazy
I admit, I am getting old (or just bored) as I am beginning to talk about weather... Are there any more boring things that people can talk about?!
Anyway, I feel that this crazyness is worth mentioning. Three days ago, it had 35 degrees (although it only felt like 28, but I guess we have already too well adapted to the circumstances), when suddenly in the evening it began to rain like hell and: hail!! Yes, bean-sized (in mexico everthing comes with frijoles :-) ) hail corns. And immediately, temperatures dropped by 20 degrees. Okay, you might say, in Germany or Norway it's around 0, so 15 are still pretty comfortable... I have to object: They are not, if ten minutes before you could still wear a t-shirt and suddenly you have to wear 4, cause unfortunately you thought Mexico was a warm country and you didn't bring a sweater... But the worst thing is a lack of isolation of doors and windows in our flat and a lack of heating. I was seriously considering turning on the oven and just leaving its door open... This morning I couldn't get myself to get out of bed, as it was so freezing in the room. While I am writing this, my feet are slowly escaping feelability... I think they might be turning into iceblocks soon. I am using my laptop to heat at least the upper parts of my leg.
Oh, btw, yesterday I had a very exciting intercultural experience. We had a merger negotiation simulation. I was in a team with two marrocan girls and a french guy, and the counter team was only Italians. Yes, now I know what it looks like when two nations with quite a lot of temperament and passion have different opinions on a subject. Yes, it can involve some shouting, and at one point the library guard had to ask us to be a bit calmer as we disturbed people in other group rooms... Very interesting indeed. I am not looking forward to have a negotiation with Italians maybe again later in my professional career. I hope I can escape that ;-)
I'm going to defrost my feet now ;-)
Saludos
Anyway, I feel that this crazyness is worth mentioning. Three days ago, it had 35 degrees (although it only felt like 28, but I guess we have already too well adapted to the circumstances), when suddenly in the evening it began to rain like hell and: hail!! Yes, bean-sized (in mexico everthing comes with frijoles :-) ) hail corns. And immediately, temperatures dropped by 20 degrees. Okay, you might say, in Germany or Norway it's around 0, so 15 are still pretty comfortable... I have to object: They are not, if ten minutes before you could still wear a t-shirt and suddenly you have to wear 4, cause unfortunately you thought Mexico was a warm country and you didn't bring a sweater... But the worst thing is a lack of isolation of doors and windows in our flat and a lack of heating. I was seriously considering turning on the oven and just leaving its door open... This morning I couldn't get myself to get out of bed, as it was so freezing in the room. While I am writing this, my feet are slowly escaping feelability... I think they might be turning into iceblocks soon. I am using my laptop to heat at least the upper parts of my leg.
Oh, btw, yesterday I had a very exciting intercultural experience. We had a merger negotiation simulation. I was in a team with two marrocan girls and a french guy, and the counter team was only Italians. Yes, now I know what it looks like when two nations with quite a lot of temperament and passion have different opinions on a subject. Yes, it can involve some shouting, and at one point the library guard had to ask us to be a bit calmer as we disturbed people in other group rooms... Very interesting indeed. I am not looking forward to have a negotiation with Italians maybe again later in my professional career. I hope I can escape that ;-)
I'm going to defrost my feet now ;-)
Saludos
posted by A. | 7:14 PM
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