One of the main things I’ve learnt here is that everything is always different than what you expect it to be. This might seem surprising, but it is no wonder when you are, almost literally, on the other side of the world. Let’s just say things are upside down most of the time.
So, for example, I find my weekend-day (Sunday) here is much more boring than my weekdays, which I never would have guessed. Mainly because we cannot go anywhere, and although staying at home is nice, having on the one hand no internet, no books to read, no TV, and on the other tons of washing and cleaning to do (well, to say the truth I need both hands for this) makes it the most boring day by far!
Another surprise is the so called rainy season. It was supposed to rain every day, or that’s what I expected. Instead, this region is one of the exceptions, and here it almost doesn’t rain at all in July! Last week, I told you this made my trips easier, but this week has just been horrible because of the dust. I swear I could feel my lungs rusting with dirt!! Thanks to the sky, rain finally fell on Sunday.
The great discovery of this time was pan-pon-pin-pan-pon. What the hell is that, you might ask? Well, it was a sound we heard every morning, and it turns out it is the bread seller! So now we can have a French-style breakfast (probably one of the only good things they left in this country.
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