the sun above

A quick update before our arrival in Singapore tomorrow morning.

I spent about two hours in the afternoon lying in the sun, attempting to get homework done. A friend and I, both of us quite uncomfortable lying in the sun in just our bikinis, still want to arrive home with tans to make our friends jealous, so we help each other gather the courage to tan like the best of the sorority girls.

I have to keep reminding myself that my body has never been exposed to this kind of heat and sun before. I've never been this close to the equator for this long.

So yes, I am sunburnt. Only on my back though. I put sunscreen on my front, not my back. For some reason I thought how I was sitting, hunched over to do homework, would prevent the sun from finding my Canadian skin. There's a lovely red line where the strap of my top crosses my abdomen.

Lesson learned.

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In other less painful news, Singapore! I'm going to be spending the two days with a close friend of mine from my home school, she's currently on exchange there. It's going to be like a little taste of home, as well as a break from the stress of trying to decide what I want to do in Singapore.