spinning: Dharma - Transway (BT's R&R mix)Conditions are worsening here in paradise town. Not for me personally, but the weather's been mostly cloudy all week and now that I've written all my postcards and checked my email more often than usual, I'm bored.Today there was a break in the clouds, so I walked down to the beach. I was hoping to find a volleyball or soccer game, and I joined a small group of friends for 4v4 volleyball. I enjoyed myself, but their speech was nearly incomprehensible. Just like how a foreigner wouldn't understand my speech, loaded with slang as it is. As such, my game of volleyball devolved mostly to non-verbal communication. Thankfully, beach volleyball is a fairly universal language. After about two hours without sunscreen, the clouds came back, the game finished, and I returned home alarmed by my lack of redness. I had nothing. No sun. Fortunately, or not so, depending on your POV, the sun isn't very intense here. You can easily spend an afternoon on the beach, sans-sunscreen, and come home unburned or untanned. I kinda like it, it makes the beach feel cool so you don't need to go in the sickeningly cold water, but I might disappoint a friend or two when I come home very not tan. It doesn't bother me - in Europe it's ok to avoid skin cancer!