That... actually makes sense. So Jae just nods, and feels sympathetic. This must be even weirder for him - but he seems upbeat enough, culture clash aside. He hopes no one was very terrible to him at home.

"I think you'd like the beach," he says. "Um. Most people wear either no clothes in the water or special garments made for it, though. If you wander around in wet clothes like that, you can wreck the fibers after a while, or you'll catch a cold."

Maybe the cold thing isn't scientifically sound, but look, that thought is way too ingrained in humanity's head.