The effects of constant sunshine.

What effect does this almost everlasting fine weather which is so significant of GC have on the mind? I think it is correct for me to say that my mind in fact is "on a different level", so to speak, when I´m in GC. After arrival it´ll take me some time, usually a few days, to get used to the totally different climate. The sun always stands very high in the sky, and although I´m pretty dark-skinned I easily catch a sunburn. And my mind is indeed different, due to the intense sunrays! But in what way? Well, this is not easily explained. I´m more hilarious, more open and talkative. Maybe it´s what´s being said about people who permanently live in such a climate: they´re "hot-blooded".

The full effect of the positive aspects of living in this pleasant climate establishes itself only after an adaption period of some 2 or 3 weeks, speaking only of myself, of course. Then I really take the well-dosed sunrays as medicine, with healing effects both for the mind and the body. It makes me shiver when I think back to the unsettled and mixed weather of more northern latitudes. I´m a lizard.

Written in May 2009.