pre/post party

I hope that everyone is doing well at home, staying healthy and happy. 

Last weekend we had the regional meeting.  It was nice to meet some other volunteers from my region and to reunite with others that I had went to training with.  We had the meeting at classy burger then changed and had a little Halloween party at Jessica’s house.  The Kumba cluster dressed up as the cast form Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia specifically the episode where they play flip cup.  So we all got t-shirts printed like the ones on the show, I got a blonde wig, and Brian (who was Frank) shaved his head in a horse shoes).

In more horrifying news; I had an incident with a latrine that I’m positive will scar me for life.   We went to this bar for dinner; the bar doesn’t have any toilets (typical) it just has latrines.  On the regular men just pee any where they want and most of the time at this bar particularly, men are too lazy to enter into the latrine to pee so they just stand in the open doorway to relieve themselves.  Well for all the females that makes the latrines 1. Disgusting since we have to walk thru your pee 2. Slippery …. Enough said.  From now on I’m walking down the road to the gas station even if the girls who work there are rude and hate it when we use their bathrooms (even though they are public toilets).  Funny how different things are here, the cleanest toilet I think I’ve been to is at the gas station.

On to a more dinner appropriate topic, the weather.  I’m sure that you have noticed from my pictures that it has been hot.  It has pretty consistently been hot.  If you walk anywhere when the sun is up you will sweat.  Other times it’s muggy and you still sweat.  The only time that you get a break is when it rains, then the temperature drops and it usually down pours.  Since rainy season is coming to an end down pours don’t happen every day anymore but they happen every other day or every three days and it rains, thunders, and lightening hard enough to take  down telephone poles, cut power, internet, and phone network.  Yet, since rainy season is ending that also means that when it doesn’t rain it’s even hotter to the point even in the shade just sitting can make you sweat.  Other pcv’s have warned me it will only going to get worse.  Time to invest in a fan.

Great news; Ryan is officially transferring to Kumba!! YAY

Elections are tonight so the Kumba cluster is going to Jessica’s house since she is the only one with a TV.  We’re going to make a nice little dinner and a lot of coffee.  The pre coverage on CNN should start about 10pm our time and we should find out who wins somewhere between 3-5am.  So it’s going to be a long night.