Journal Prompt For June-Did You Have Air Conditioning In Your Childhood Home?
June is a hot month. Did you have air conditioning growing up? If not, how did you survive the heat? What is your perfect temperature setting in the summer? As long as I can remember, I have liked a cold bedroom. In the summer, happy with a temperature below 70 degrees, and in the winter, I achieved the perfect sleeping weather by opening the window and taking whatever mother nature has to offer. Do I like to feel cold at night? No, but I don't want to be hot. That is torture for me, and forget getting any sleep in hot, humid weather. So I say give me a cold room with lots of blankets year-round, and I am a happy sleeping camper. Did we have AC growing up? No. We lived on the eastern shore of Maryland, and no, it did not get as hot and humid as here in NC, but there were some unbearably hot days and nights. There were nights in Maryland I would lay in bed drenched in sweat with a small fan circulating more hot air all around me. ...