Rainy Season Returns

So, since February we haven’t had any real rain to speak of. Maybe once or twice is all. This means that by September everything here is D-R-Y. There are 2 paved road in the entire town which means any slight breeze and you have giant dust daredevils spinning all around you and nothing you can do to stop it. It gets in your hair, sticks to your lip-gloss, and coats your feet in the red dust that is the dirt here. Ugh. Luckily our water situation was never awful. I know of others who could only take baths every other day because of a lack of water in their town. We just complained when there wasn’t enough water to water the vegetables in the garden.

Suffice to say, we just got our first big downpour yesterday, October 5th. Huge torrents of muddy water came off the roof (washing off previously mentioned dust), the slight hill we climb to get to the town was a mini-creek, and an umbrella was a necessity, not an option like I’m used to in Oregon. I am now over my umbrella shame and carry around a giant one everyday now.

Now, we will have the opposite problems of the dry season. Our clothes will start taking days to line dry in the humidity, I’ll have mud caked to the back of my legs and all over my feet and shoes, the power will go out inexplicably for hours everyday. It doesn’t matter if it’s 10 am—if the power’s on you cook whatever food you want to cook because you never know when you’ll have power again. Also bathing whenever the electricity is on unless you want a cold-water bath (which some days you do).

Number one plus of rainy season---Mangos! Papayas! Pineapples! Oh my 