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neverspent) wrote2010-08-20 11:01 pm
neverspent) wrote2010-08-20 11:01 pm
August 20: Days decrease
For the first time in two weeks I am back to my normal workday schedule of waking up at 0600. Because of the two-week gap, I suppose, I noticed a difference from two weeks ago: it is still dark when I wake. Well, mostly dark. The sky isn't bright, and the sun certainly isn't beating down on the balcony by the time I'm eating breakfast.
This summer, I taught some students from an equatorial African country. I always ask students at the end of the semester to tell me something that surprised them when they arrived here. These students said they weren't prepared for the fact that it didn't get dark until nine o'clock or so. "How can children go to sleep?" they wondered. In their country, they told me, the sun comes up around seven and goes down around seven every day, all year.
It's such a fundamental routine, seasons and day length, so ingrained when you've spent a lifetime taking it for granted.
This summer, I taught some students from an equatorial African country. I always ask students at the end of the semester to tell me something that surprised them when they arrived here. These students said they weren't prepared for the fact that it didn't get dark until nine o'clock or so. "How can children go to sleep?" they wondered. In their country, they told me, the sun comes up around seven and goes down around seven every day, all year.
It's such a fundamental routine, seasons and day length, so ingrained when you've spent a lifetime taking it for granted.