People have talked about Rwanda's rainy season, and we finally got a taste of it this afternoon. Plans changed, AGAIN! 60% of the people in the house got no rest last night, coughing and with very sore throats. We woke up really needing caffeine, and it worked. So by mid-morning we were feeling ready to hit the market with our cameras, recorders and many high expectations.
Our dear friend Albert, "Alfred" as we renamed him, said "I'm coming over" so we waited for him. Lunch passed, the afternoon passed and then we discovered in African that means I'll eventually get there at some point, hahahaha... he's still not here at 7:30pm
After lunch the skies changed color, the humidity in the rain was reaching 100% and the wind was threatening us newcomers... a storm! But our hosts seemed very calm, so we got the clothes in and waitied for the rain. Rain doesn't keep you waiting as much as people do. It surely came.
Rob got out the recorder and got some amazing stuff, sounds of the showers in the background, the wind, the creeking doors... great stuff! Joy got the camera out and captured some great clips of the torrential rain. The camera might get a flu despite Montse getting soaked trying to hold the umbrella. And Jose read and then slept and slept and slept...
We had Living Waters' Mc Gregor Mc Gruber visit us during the rainstorm and had wondeful conversations and hard questions get answered. His input was priceless. Ps David from Kenia also came in this afternoon to visit our host family, so the house had 4 Americans, 2 Costa Ricans, 1 Rwandese and 1 Kenyan sipping tea, coffee and hot chocolate as we talked and enjoyed the rain falling outside (except Joy enjoying being soaked by it and Montse getting it as a by product of her umbrella holding job)
It was a day of waiting, listening, learning and good team bonding over hot chocolate!
Tomorrow we're headed to a wedding, but right now the pot and plates are on the table and we are all quite ready for dinner.
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