Heat Stroke!

I have now been in Hong Kong for over a month. Most of the Hong Kong people I met asked me what I think about their city. I always answer honestly and let them know it’s too hot and too many people everywhere, no matter if it’s day or night, the apartments are really small and the food is super cheap, at least as long as you eat at one of Hong Kong’s many thousands local café’s. Don’t get me wrong, I still love it!

People who know me know how much I hate winter and cold. However, the heat here IS a problem. My boyfriend asked me the other day what kind of summer day I prefer: 32 degrees C (90F) and high humidity or 12 degrees C (54F) and rain. In all honesty none of those options are ideal to me. But when I think about it I rather walk in to a building with nice cold Air Condition to cool me down than to have to walk around in jeans and a thick sweat shirt in July. Since I love going to the beach, surviving 32 degrees C heat is very plausible.

I keep asking the locals if I ever will get used to the heat, and I have got the same answer every time: ”NO, I will not get used to it”! Sigh... doesn’t sound very promising, considering that I already got several heat strokes where I just shut down and won’t function again until I have cooled down in an air conditioned place (thank god for all the stores, all with AC). And that is from walking leisurely on the side walk with a gazillion others and in the shade (people do walk very slowly here for being a city, perhaps because of the heat?). 

Even though the heat is not my friend, the city is loud and crowded; I will do what I can to make this my home. I know it will require some adjustments from my side, but that doesn’t scare me at all. Everything will be fine, everything will be okay, and it always works out one way or another.