Trials

Various unrelated things coming to the same head:

It started raining hard and didn't stop. We live mostly outside so everything is damp. The kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, office and classrooms are covered, but you get wet going from one to the other.

A lot of us were about to do our personal laundry when the rain started. I had just washed all the rags and towels. They were hanging dry on the line, but I hadn't taken them down yet.

We put music on in the kitchen and all crammed in to eat lunch standing up, then from those positions we had a really nice weekly house meeting.

Four poeple sick with the runs, two also throwing up. I am one of the four, the only one who wasn't really sick.

It was also at this time that we ran out of water. 

Lisa and I are covered in little bumps that seem like too many to be mosquito bites. I think now it's spiders. I thought it was bedbugs. In our 2 hours of dryness yesterday I did as thorough a despidering as I could, while also trying to dry out my mattress.

A couple non-sickies took a wet walk to see these naturopathic nuns in another part of town and come back with some tummy remidies.

Capim grosso is not equipped for rain. When it rains here, everything stops, people don't go to class, etc.

We found out that, according the weather report, it's going to rain for over a week.  

Last night, after realizing we couldnt just wait a day for the rain to stop, John and I strung a clothesline in the theater/dance room. I put on my bathing suit and rewashed all the rags with the water pouring down from the drain pipe.

Buckets fill instantly when placed under the drain pipe, so at least we can flush the toilets!

The licuri festival was scheduled for Sunday, I think it's out of the question now.

What will the next week hold?