Never leave the house without sunscreen, ever. Always apply it to all possible regions of your body (as bad at that sounds now hahah).
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In November (which is the end of spring here in New Zealand for all of you Northern Hemisphere people like me lol) there was some sort of camp with all the International students who didn't have to do exams from my school. We went up to the Kapiti Coast which is one of the hottest places in the Wellington region in summer. In November it wasn't even that hot yet but we still had quite nice temperatures and a comfortable heat. So, one day we went to the beach and built some really cool sculptures (it was a rather hot day at the beginning) and afterwards we decided to go to the pool. My friend Isla and I went back to the camping place and changed into our swimming gear but we didn't put sunscreen on. It didn't really matter to her because she's part Latin American but it did indeed matter to me being a typical, white Middle-European. It mattered a lot. So, we went to the pool, all dressed in swimsuit and shit, and then we jumped into the pool, she kept her shirt on, I did not. It was the biggest mistake ever. We stayed there from 3pm on until like 5pm and I didn't have sunscreen on at all. I noticed it and the idiot I was I just turned it down and said it's not that bad. After like 15min I put it on and just kept lying in the shade. After a while we went back and when I examined the burns on my arms and shoulders in my room in the evening I told my friend Bella that it doesn't look that bad. I was in lots of pain but I just turned it down and thought it'll get better in the morning. Well, when I woke up the pain was even worse and I took a look at my shoulders and it had blistered. It hurt so much, I couldn't think clearly anymore. I endured the day anyway and when I came home I just lay down and basically died, at least that's what if felt like. I'm pretty sure that you do not want to read about the following weeks in detail therefore I'll just summarise it briefly. Over the next few weeks I found out that I had second degree burns and got an ointment against minor burns on the skin. Although it's basically healed by now you can still see the outlines of the burns on my shoulders, my arms and my collarbone. Five months later. Seriously guys, the New Zealand sun burns the heck out of you, please DO NOT risk it! Constant sun burn on your skin can lead to skin cancer and I can tell you guys, skin cancer is no fun. Here, just being out in the sun without any sort of protection against it, you can burn within 8-10min. So I'll tell you again, don't risk your life if you have the chance to prevent it just by putting on sun screen for about 5min.
Think about it, do you want 5 months of pain or do you prefer 5min in order to protect yourself from any harm of that kind?
Soooo, I hope you've learnt from my mistake and always put sunscreen on even if you think you don't need it. Here I've got a link that you might be interested in: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10832000
Because I have to keep up with the tradition, here's another photo of my bae
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Yeah, that was my amazing story about sun burn hahaha.
I'm going to bed now, see you guys lata
Yours truly,
Maggie
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