Piayot Goes to France

I gained an hour!

Tita Juliete called me this evening while sopfia was tinkering around with the internet in my room. As kind as ever, she invited us to stay with her in Linselles tomorrow. We happily obliged - who would be crazy enough not to? Free cooking lessons (and very good i must add), good food, cute kids to play with, and the chance to simply chat with Tita Juliete in Filipino as opposed to spending hours in our rooms here in Lille - all locked up (or maybe we could even leave our rooms open because our dorms have transformed into ghost dorms due to the toussaint vacation).

Anyways, just a few seconds after I put down the phone, it rang again, and in came the cheerful voice of Tita Juliette again. "Nakalimutan ko pala sabihin. Kaya ako tumawag kanina, adjust niyo oras niyo ha." Huh? I looked at my watch, my phone, my computer, my alarm clock, they all were displaying the same time - 8:43 pm. Nothing seemed amiss, except for the growing disbelief and amazement at the thought that Tita Juliete could sense what's wrong with my watches when she's miles away from my place. "Adjust niyo ng isang oras. Bawasan niyo ng isang oras. Anong oras na diyan?" "Umm, 8:43 po" "So gawin mong 7:43, nag-adjust na kasi ung oras ngayon." Another "Huh?" from an utterly confused me. "Bakit po? Dahil winter?" And then it dawned on me. Suddenly the term daylight saving time made sense after years of knowing it at the back of my head. It was amazing, I gained one more hour! Cool! But then again, on second thought, oh no. I have another hour to get bored. Good thing sopfia was there to share my amazement and kill one more hour of boredom.

This daylight saving time scheme sure is cool. At least now, I wouldn't have a hard time screwing up my eyes in the morning (of at least for the succeeding weeks) looking out at the dark sky outside my window while checking all my watches if it really is 7 am when it looks around daybreak only. Now it would really be a bit more sunny when I wake up, or at least I hope it will be.

posted by Pia @ 10:39 PM