What to do on a rainy day?

.......Wash african materials and hang them out to dry right?

The rainy season seems to still be with us and though the normal wettest month is August, this year September has certianly been it!

Almost daily the rains fall, sometimes heavier sometimes lighter.

On Friday and several times last week, the rains were so heavy massive floods caused chaos. Literaly 2 secs out in the rain will soak you to the skin, and becasue of such poor drainage some areas become flooded in a matter of minutes. This of course destoys peoples homes and sadly a few children have drowned too. On our way to work in a Terrano on Friday the floods were so bad we sat in knee deep water for 45 mins while other smaller cars got stuck with water washing up over their bonnets and rivers gushing rapidly knocking over the women walking to fetch fish. We were very glad along with the other people to get through the worst spot as quickly as we could.

Other days like today it drizzles all day. Unfortuantely there are not many things to do on the weekend here, and most activites like going to the beach / pool / walks are not so do-able when it rains. While we still had power early this morning I got up to use the sewing machine - still working on the patchwork, hence 'drying' out random pieces of african material. However as soon as the power goes thats the end of that little activity. So I read and listened to music, and drank coffee and talked to house mates.

But really, theres not much to do, so a pretty boring day all in all.

We had to go out for dinner tonight just to make up for all the excitment not had during the day!