I love thunderstorms. I love love love them!!! Especially when it is warm enough for you to play in them. In Africa it is always warm enough.
On our first real day in Enchi there was a huge rainstorm. We were walking around town when we saw some foreboding clouds rolling on in so we decided to turn around and head home. It was a good thing we did too because it started pouring!!! It was awesome! Each person we passed tried to convince us to come under their shelter, but we graciously declined. We must of looked nuts because we were giddy with delight over the rain. We were dancing and laughing.
The dirt roads soon turned into a muddy mess so we slipped our way down the hill on our way home. I have never seen a rain storm like that... it was wild!!
The rain drops were enormous! And it was so wonderful to finally be cool-ish after four weeks of constant sweating. We laughed the whole way home!
We decided to go puddle jumping and we even managed to convince some kids to come along with us. All the Ghanaians were huddled beneath their shelters laughing hysterically at us. We must have looked absolutely ridiculous to them, but the kids seemed to love it.
Rivers of orange/red ran through town. It was beautiful! Did I mention that it was warm and that we had so much fun??
We had our first day at the clinic the next day and everybody had heard about us puddle jumping with the kids even though no one had met us yet. News travels fast in a small town like Enchi... and we were the only four white people in town so it was pretty obvious it was us.
More of Africa will slowly come. Final school exam on Tuesday!! Then all I have is marking for the statistics course I'm a T.A. for and finishing off practicum. I'm so close!! Oh. And my Canadian RN Exam in June... but that isn't till June.
5 comments:
this is perfect! i LOVED africa rain. the only time we had it really bad when when we were in a van on our way to mole - there was lighting too which was sweet in the open african skies.
love it ash! look forward to more. happy marking :)
I love rainstorms too. Especially African ones. We're in the middle of dry season here, but this week, while we were at our hotel on holidays, we had a crazy rainstorm one night. Lots of thunder and lightning. It was fabulous!
I loved them too! When I was in Kenya it happened every single day. Usually as teachers, we would have to stop teaching and take an hour break because it was way too loud on the tin roof:)
Makes me miss it!
One other thing...we collected all of our water from the rain so whenever the rain started, we put out our buckets to collect enough water for showering/drinking etc. The elementary kids at the boarding school (where we lived) would do it too!
There is nothing like an African rain storm! After weeks with no showers (baths only) it was tempting just to take the shampoo into the storm and lather up :) Australia has similar storms and they usually happen a few times a week. I love storms too!!
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