Rain

28-April 07

Went to a home service this afternoon. (They have them on Saturday afternoons to get ready for Sunday.) Rural houses can have some pretty interesting decore. Like this house – pictures of Jesus alternating with pictures of sweet young chesty things on all four walls of the living room. We as guests sat in aqua plastic arm chairs with garish flower pattern in the plastic. There weren’t enough fancy chairs for everyone so others sat on wood benches or on regular plastic stacking chairs borrowed for the occasion.

It continues to rain heavily every day, most every afternoon and evening. When it rains a lot the water gets cloudy. The bath water today looked like coffee with milk. Even the drinking water (which is boiled to sanitize it) looked like weak tea. (Maybe that’s why people here drink so much coffee? Aside from the fact that they grow it themselves!) It has been overcast and seems dark all the time. This village has power every evening from 6pm-12pm but I am usually so tired I can only benefit from about three hours of light