that was quick! thanks, donors. guess it's time to start working. hopefully it won't get too rainy before we can finish. the rain hasn't been heavy at all, or frequent, but you can tell rainy season is on the way.
Yesterday in San I had a weird experience..it was nice outside, a little cloudy, and I had just bought some tomatos in market and was walking back to the house. I was walking towards the mosque and saw some dark clouds behind it, in the east. (I knew it was east because all mosques face east. Also, let's face it, I can't not know what direction I'm going these days, with the sun being the best landmark. The clouds started getting darker and the wind picked up, and strangely started turning brown and hazy. I turned a corner and the wind picked up a lot.. I had to hold my skirt down and cover my face against the dust with my non-tomato-holding hand. Turns out the brown clouds were really dust, a huge hazy wall coming towards downtown San. I looked down a street and couldn't see the end of it for all the dust. Cars and motos started turning on their headlights, and I felt like I was in the path of a volcanic ash storm. When I turned the corner towards the house, the buildings were funneling the wind and dust and I could hardly walk against it. Sand was pelting my glasses, the only part of my face not covered with my scarf. I never thought a dust storm could affect cities like that, but I guess when the roads aren't paved it's the same as being en brousse. I got to the house as soon as the rain started. I remember storms like this (refer to last fall's entry). Rainy season is gonna make for some good blog entries.
Speaking of San, which I tend to think of as a real city, and my salvation from village, I saw the city's trash collection method last week.. a guy with a donkey cart. He comes to your house and dumps your trash into his cart (for a fee), and then takes it to an unknown location, probably just a centralized dumping ground, or burning pit. For a while I wondered what the strange smoky smell was that hit me every time I got close to San while biking in from my village. After experimenting with it myself at home, I realized what the smell was: burning garbage! I'm an advocate for it, even though my burning plastic is letting who knows what into the atmosphere. Better than letting kids rummage through my old bandaids and such.
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Okay, I've been trying to call you for like three days now!! Your phone keeps doing some weird beeping thing like when you accidentally leave a phone off the hook or something...so anyway, I don't know what's up with that, but I have been trying to talk to you! Me and Andrea are excited about you coming home...we can't wait to see you! We're trying to make plans on what we can do, but it's going to be kinda hard for her because the boy is in school all summer...and she said that you didn't want to drive down. So we figured that the best thing to do would be for us to go up on the 4th of July since the boy will be out of school, then drop him off at Andrea's mom and dad's house, then go up to the lake for the weekend (my dad just bought a new jet ski!!). Anyway, let me know what you think...and if that doesn't work for you, me and Andrea will think of something else. Miss you and love you!! ~Erin
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