Coming from the warm, sun-soaked tropical zones of West Africa, my first day experiencing winter in the UK felt like stepping into a completely different world. I’d heard stories about the cold, the rain, and the early sunsets, but nothing could have prepared me for the culture shock of that day.
It was a November afternoon, and I remember stepping into a room with the sun still faintly shining. Thirty minutes later, I came back out, expecting to pick up where I left off — but instead, the world had transformed. It was pitch dark, and for a moment, I thought I’d lost track of time.
How could it be nighttime already? This sudden plunge into darkness at 3 PM felt surreal and unsettling, as if nature itself was playing tricks on me.
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We live in a country that insists on using daylight savings time for part of the year. It makes the ever-colder days also shorter. So cold *and* dark. But my weirdest experience of darkness was in Alaska in the summer of 1980 when the sun never
completely went down. Wondered what kind of darkness would happen in the winter up there.
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