STORM!!

I think it’s safe to say that the rainy season has officially started. We had an impressive storm on Monday morning and then again last night. The rain here is nothing like at home though; it’s more like Ontario summer storms (or, at least how I remember them). The rain tends to come in a downpour for a few hours and then stops, rather than drizzling constantly for days. The rain has a great warning system too. The temperature drops by a very noticeable, and appreciated, several degrees and the wind picks up. When this happens you know you’ve got less than five minutes to find shelter before you’re drenched.

On Tuesday nights all the volunteers go to Grant’s (the Cape Coast director) for a quiz night/movie. The sky was flashing with lightning, strobe light style, all evening. It was about half an hour into the movie when the temperature dropped and we decided to get out of there. Grant’s is about a twenty-minute walk away from our place, down these really dark dirt roads. Nicole and I seemed to be the only ones who urgently wanted to get home. We pulled ahead of the others by speed walking, trying to ignore the really creepy shadows and rustling in nearby bushes. As we rounded a corner we felt a cold blast of wind and both broke into a run, in our flip-flops, for the last kilometer or two back to Philo’s house. And, thank you soccer fitness, we made it inside the house just before the downpour started.

It was good fun! I love storms and it’s not everyday that you get to sprint through the rain with lightning and thunder around you while people laugh and clap for the running obrunis. Fun fun!!