Rain

I’ll start this off by saying that Honduras has gotten a ton of rain the last week and it has caused lots of flooding and landslides, but I’m doing just fine in San Marcos, it’s doing a lot more damage to the big cities….It’s funny, being from Seattle, the rain doesn’t really bug me, even though it doesn’t rain as much as the myths have it, but for me the rain can be therapeutic. The rain down here isn’t the same type of rain that we get back home though. Seattle rain tends to be more of a constant drizzle that lasts for hours/days/weeks/fall through spring, here it’s different, when it rains it pours, there is no light mist, and it rains so hard that the power goes out, literally. Some of the time the rain is great, those days that it is too hot to do anything, the rain cools us down, makes it less dusty, and makes the green even greener. There are other times however that the rain isn’t as welcome, like when I have to walk the ½ hour walk to the maternal clinic, or when it rains early and then when it gets hot the whole town turns into a sauna, the rain also makes people lazy, myself included, when it’s raining no one really works or leaves the house, you pretty much are trapped wherever you are, even if it’s with a group of high school kids who invited you to watch them practice their theater/miming routine and you have to spend 3 hours with them listening to 50 Cent and Lady Gaga because it’s raining and you can’t leave. It’s also tough when it rains so hard that you can’t hear anything, music, people talking, nothing because the rain drops sound like drums beating on the roof. It can be a little rough when it rains for days on end and it feels like you never leave the house, but on those days when it doesn’t rain, like today, it makes it even sweeter when you get to walk around town meeting new people. Fortunately the rain is warm down here, the frogs come out, and you get to drive through rivers.