The Rainy Season (by Todd)
One waterproof poncho: $6 at K-Mart
Keeping dry in a Honduran rainstorm: priceless
During the past week, I've realized that the most useful thing I brought from home was that poncho (thank you Bryan for finding it!). We have apparently now entered the rainy season here in Talanga. It rains about every day here. And not just rains. Pours.
We're talking get yourself soaked in 1 minute pouring. As in, "You are riding in the back of Padre Daniel's truck and you are done for" pouring. It's quite funny, actually. Sometimes it goes from overcast but not a drop at all to completely pouring in 30 seconds. And since all the streets in Talanga are dirt roads, the whole town becomes a quagmire.
It's rained every day this past week, sometimes twice a day. But I guess we're getting accustomed to it. And I love that poncho! The next thing is big rubber boots for us all, so that we don't have to play hopscotch through Talanga in every rainstorm :)
Keeping dry in a Honduran rainstorm: priceless
During the past week, I've realized that the most useful thing I brought from home was that poncho (thank you Bryan for finding it!). We have apparently now entered the rainy season here in Talanga. It rains about every day here. And not just rains. Pours.
We're talking get yourself soaked in 1 minute pouring. As in, "You are riding in the back of Padre Daniel's truck and you are done for" pouring. It's quite funny, actually. Sometimes it goes from overcast but not a drop at all to completely pouring in 30 seconds. And since all the streets in Talanga are dirt roads, the whole town becomes a quagmire.
It's rained every day this past week, sometimes twice a day. But I guess we're getting accustomed to it. And I love that poncho! The next thing is big rubber boots for us all, so that we don't have to play hopscotch through Talanga in every rainstorm :)
posted by at 10/01/2005 06:49:00 PM
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