It has been remarkably cool and windy the last few
days. Yesterday I didn’t use my electric
fan at all. I used my hand fan a bit in
the evening, but by the middle of the night was using my small down blanket.
During the day, my Samoan friends have been complaining
about the cold. I think it is a
delightful respite from the normal sweltering heat. I had dinner with some palagis the other
night and we were saying the weather is the perfect temperature. By “freezing” day time temps, we’re talking
about 80 degrees. But the Samoans are
wearing hoodies and coats.
I’m enjoying the coolish weather but also have a cold, which
stinks. My mother would say I got the
cold because it’s chilly at night and that’s when I take my cold showers. I think I more likely got it from one of the
hundreds of snotty nosed kids I touch on a daily basis. I just know that taking a hot shower in cool
weather when you have a cold is preferable to a cold shower. I’m actually continuing to type this as a way
of putting off the cold shower that needs to take place before I head to
bed. As much as I don’t want to do it
now, it would be infinitely worse in the chilly, dark air tomorrow morning.
At least I have running water. Some of my fellow volunteers don’t, since dry
season has started. I’ll count my
blessings as I stick my head under the pipe.
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