They don’t have air conditioners in my home country, so learning how to adjust to using an air conditioner has been very interesting since moving to the United States.
- When I tell people that I never had a central air conditioner growing up, people don’t know how to react.
If you have had an air conditioner for your entire life, you have never learned how to live with the heat, and your body has never had to deal with that inconvenience. It isn’t like we were thinking about a central air conditioner whenever we were warm. The humidity and the heat were just a fact of life. We didn’t even know that we would have to worry about it. Our bodies are amazing things, and we are able to adapt to anything that life throws at us. In fact, the actual shock came when I traveled to the United States for my college studies. I found out that each of the college dorm rooms had a small air conditioner, and the college students that were born in the United States were accustomed to using the air conditioner all the time. During the summer, I was used to the heat, but instead of heat, the air conditioner made me completely miserable. I have never been cold during the summer. I especially had a hard time sleeping when the air conditioner was running. I finally understood why the other students had heavy blankets in their beds. We never needed blankets when we didn’t have an air conditioner. However, over the years, I have grown used to the central air conditioners, and I might actually have a hard time returning to my home country.