Life in the Philippines - The Heat & Humidity
The heat is high enough here on its own but with such a high humidity as well it is crazy some days. I’m lucky though because I’m fairly sure it is actually ‘winter’ here … lol
Winter means it does not get to 40 degrees, only 28 to 35 degrees with near 90% plus humidity. Bottom line here is that you sweat. All the time. Well, I mean you sweat your butt off really.
Now sweating here is definately NOT the same as sweating in Canada. Here I can easily end the day with 4 shirts literally soaked through and through .. not to mention your pants and several hand towels that everybody caries to wipe their faces. I tend to use many hand towels … lol
One great thing is that labour is so cheap here by our standards that it is super cheap to get your clothes washed, dried, and folded for you. Well, that and the fact that our Condo doesn’t really have proper facilities to do the drying part … we have a washing machine … this tiny little thing, but it does the job. Drying on the other hand would be out on the high-rise balcony. Definately not ideal here. So … laundry it is … and it is priced out by the Kg … about 35 pesos per Kg. Typical price is about $4.00 Cdn per load.
The interesting thing is that they weight it in, count how many pieces you bring in, and weight it out. However, you are charged by the weight from the weight in … and mine is always 1/2 Kg lighter afterwards. Not because I get fewer items back but because they are no longer ‘damp’with sweat.
I figure that I pay an extra 20 pesos per load due to the weight of the sweat in my clothes. Over the course of being here 10 weeks that is going to be an extra 400 Pesos just ot have my sweat washed … lol
The nice thing is 400 pesos sounds like a lot more than it is … its only about 10 bucks.