Especially going from Hawaii to Chicago.
You would be surprised at how many people don’t know that, even ‘melanin’ enriched folks!
My 6th grade teacher moved here from Buffalo and stayed outside the whole day for field day. She wore these big honking sunglasses and she had light area around both eyes, LOL! She hadn’t experienced our sun before.
Now me? I’m so melanin deficient that I’m almost translucent. Seriously, I could lay out in the sun all day for three straight months and you might could see a faint tan line that would disappear in two days. I’m sure you really needed to know all that, huh? LOL
I lived in Hawaii for 4 years. When my father was transfered we moved to N.J. I was in the 6th grade. I had a deep dark tan. The first day of school I came home and told my Mom that the kids at school thought I was black. This despite the fact that I had very sun bleached blond hair and very blue eyes.