Sunday, June 12, 2011

Sweat

As unpredictable as India has been, there is one guarantee I can make. You will sweat. And sweat. And sweat. I am not joking when I say I sweated from the time I got off the train until the time I got back on the train, 5 days later. Sometimes, it’s only a little perspiration, other times it looks like you fell in the well. When you go to bed. You are sweating. You wake up, still sweating, now with the bed soaked. When, rather if you “shower” your sweat reduces, until you towel off and put on a drier shirt. The one day I wore a shirt for the morning and by 9 am it was so drenched I had to change. I put it in the sun and changed at lunch, because shirt 2 was drenched. By then shirt 1 was dry, so I put it back on.
I have rashes on my forearms from seat and dirt and itching them. Hopefully they go away. I also have heat/water rash on my lower back. It reminds me of doubles in high school football, if you forgot your extra shirt, you had to wear the sweaty shirt for the second session, often ending in rashes from your moist, sweating skin against a wet shirt. Uncomfortability certain ensues.

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