As I said above my car doesn't have air conditioning. The average daily temperature during the wet season (actually all year round) is about 84 degrees F. All the wet season (now) does is contribute humidity. Some days it is so humid here you can see the haze. Other days we have clear air and the temperatures FEEL cooler.

So, today I got to work at the language school where I teach. There were some small children (6 and 7 years old) in my classroom. One whispered to her teacher to ask what was wrong with my back. The teacher had to explain it was just sweat seeping through my shirt.

The people here in the islands chew betelnut (pugua). The nut grows on the betelnut palm tree. They peel off the husk, quarter the nut with special betelnut cutters, sprinkle on some lime and tobacco and wrap it in a sweet tasting leaf. I tried it once. It instantly dried out my mouth and then my saliva glands kicked into high gear. It was bitter and tasteless at the same time! I politely spit it into the weeds and thanked my benefactor. She laughed and still offers me some when we go to visit them. Ugh!

I tell this story because of the mention of diuretics above.