At the risk of sounding like a typical Californian… HOLY CRAP IT RAINED!!!! The rain didn’t last long. However, I was in my house and my house has a tin roof and OH. MY. GOSH. 

Let me explain. When I lived in California, I wasn’t a big fan of the rain. My mom LOVES the rain but I could really go without it. I love me some sunshine. Anyway, today in Mphomwa it started raining at around 3:00pm and it started out slow. I thought, “Oh. Ok. Cool. I can handle this. It sounds so pretty on my tin roof.” But NOOOOOOOO. The rain kept getting harder and harder and louder and louder and it was CRAZY!!!!!! I couldn’t hear myself think! 

After it stopped, I went into my backyard and got Kuwala, my dog, and took him outside and across the road to the school. See, I usually take him for a run at 4:00pm so I needed to get him out of the house for some exercise because he is crazy. So, we walked up to the school and found my student/friend, Moses, and asked if he wanted to go for a walk up the mountain with us. Then we went and found my student/friend, Rhoda, and invited her to join as well. While we waited for the two of them to get changed, we ran into my head teacher and I told him about my initial reaction to the rain. I asked him if we teach when it is raining really hard because I wasn’t sure how it was possible for the students and teachers to hear each other when it is raining like that on the roof! He said we do not teach during rains like that. We take a break. 

But, how crazy is it that in this country and I’m sure in many others, they have to, basically, stop their lives because of typical weather conditions? Rainy season is coming up and I am so curious to see how it all works out and how crazy the rain hitting my roof will make me! 

Here are pictures from our walk up to the top of our little mountain.