Monday, May 16, 2011

Finally Cooling Off a Little

Wow – it has been SOOOO hot here recently! The rains came two days ago, which cooled things off a tiny bit, or at least more at night – a great relief. I didn’t realize how much hotter it is in my site than other places. I spent almost a week out of my site for training. We were in the mountains and the capital, and I was cold there. When I got back to my site, I was instantly sweating just sitting. It was like that for about a week, and while it is still extremely hot, the evenings and nights cool off a little more even if there is no rain. Also, the clouds block the glaring sun, which makes it seem much cooler here, so that’s also a plus. I can also tell how hot it is by how much my cat sleeps. Now, she’s up playing until about 9 in the morning and gets up at about 4 in the afternoon. Before, she was asleep at 7:30 or 8 and got up at 5:30 or 6. I’m much happier it’s cooling off, but I’m scared of a lot of rain because that means that there will be lots of mud and I think the replacement bridge has already been washed out, so that means it is now an hour to my pueblo as opposed to half an hour. We’ll just pray that we get rain sporadically instead of tons in only a few days!