I never experienced real southern weather until I went to college.
My dad was in the military, so my family moved quite often.
I lived in ten different houses in seven different states throughout my childhood. I always loved when we got relocated to somewhere down south. The warm weather and sunshine always made me so cheerful. We lived down south for a total of seven years. I loved every second of it! I remember the summers were quite hot, but I didn’t mind; I just found a way to keep cool. We always had air conditioning in our house, so inside stayed nice and cool throughout the hot summer months. When it was time for me to decide what college I wanted to attend, I made sure that it was somewhere down south. I ended up on the very southern tip of the U.S., and it turns out it was much hotter than I ever remember it being as a girl. I literally dreaded going outside because of the heat, but the worst part was the humidity. My friends and I would try to spend some time playing volleyball outside, and we would have to go back inside within twenty minutes because it was just so humid. The air felt very think, and the sweat never dried from your skin. By the time I graduated college, I no longer had any desire to live where it was so hot and humid. I ended up getting married and moving up north where it rarely got above eighty-five degrees in the summertime, and the humidity was pretty low as well.