what the heat can do

Something really weird happened the other day. We all know in Sweden, that at the moment the weather is amazing. The sun is shining and the heat is almost umbarable – but still, we have a real summer. What is weird in the moment is that I have lived in a country with almost constant heat during summers and Inever ever ended up in this situation which I ended up in over here in Sweden. I fainted, on the tram, on my way to the beach. It was crazy. There I was, chatting with my little brother, cramped inbetween loads of people. Sweating like a pig and suddenly I just want to throw up on the ladie sitting below me. I, of course tried to avoid that and suddenly I realize that my eyes were flickering and I started to have cold sweat running down my face and hard to breath. I grabbed my brother and told him, I am fainting now! We tried to get of the tram as fast as possible and finally we manage and I sat down in the grass just recovering. Of course, one would ask if my diabetes was bad, due to my condition. But everything was good with that part. It must have been lack of air! It is not a wonder that I fainted, becasue so many people in Gothenburg do this every year, you see, the tram in Gothenburg is from Italy and of some reason they do not have enough windows that can be opened or any AC on them, in other words they are not adapted to the swedish weather. Every year is the same thing – the bus and trams get too hot and one can imagine the heat when a tram or bus is packed with people in 27 degrees heat. That bus or tram becomes a sauna and the difference between a sauna and a packed bus/ tram is that you sit down in a sauna and can walk out at any moment, but in the bus or tram – one cannot!

1 comment 29 June 2009