It is official, summer is here! Gone are the layers upon layers of clothing, and my usual ensemble of coats and jackets while others are wearing sweaters and cardigans. I have long being the recipient of odd looks and faint reprimands disguised in innocently worded phrases like "its so warm today" or "are you cold"? Irrevocably implying that my choice of clothing is inappropriate to the weather. Dutifully do i smile and answer either in the affirmative, yes i am 'cold' or answer in feigned unconcern with 'is it'?
However you choose to view it, i refuse to put my health in jeopardy in order to appear trendy or fashionable. They are usually fast asleep and in dreamland when i remain awake battling sneezes, catarrh and cough in the middle of the night. I was prepared to continue to receive unsolicited disapproving looks, until that fateful day, wednesday the 24th of May. Dressed in my usual comfortable jeans and shirt, i set out armed with my hooded waterproof jacket, but to my surprise people were dressed in short dresses and shorts. I was baffled and a bit surprised considering the environment i was. This is not acceptable, why would students dress in very revealing and short clothes to lecture halls? This is the height of it i said to myself.
After lectures, i spent some time at a student common lounge to interact with fellow students and witnessed more inappropriate dressing. Deciding to take a nap for an hour or two, i got a call from a friend that i left my wallet in the students common room, a development that i had not discovered myself. So i sprung out of bed in a panic to put on the first clothing items i found that was suitable to the undeniably hot weather, which was a pair of leggings and a t-shirt. My friend gave my wallet to me and said her friend found it and after identifying the student id card, gave it to her to give to me. I thanked her and asked her to extend my gratitude to her friend who found the wallet and thereafter left for the library to do some studying.
As i sat down to do some work at the library, i received a bb message from my friend who told me to go home because my snickers were showing beneath the leggings i wore, to say i was embarrassed is putting it mildly! Here was the most puritanic advocate for decent clothes and dressing this side of the world revealing my ample bottom and underwear to the public! But it was not my fault though, it was the heat!
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