rain

Yesterday a moto-taxi driver tried to get an extra 100 cfa from me. I took a moto-taxi from my friend Nathaniel’s village back to my place. His village is on a road kinda in-between two places and in the middle of no where. So this zemi (or zem, that’s what we call the moto-taxis) passed us on the way into the other village, Athieme…cause he was dropping someone off…but he is from my town (I can tell by the color shirts they have to wear)….so really if he was going out to this town to drop this lady off, and wasn’t really expecting to have a passenger for the ride back. But I needed to get home and there he was…so we agreed on a price, 400 cfa. And then as we are getting to my house, he says that the 400 cfa is not sufficient. And I hop off and I said that yes, 400 cfa is sufficient and hand him a 500 cfa coin and expect my 100 cfa change back. But he jokingly holds onto it. And I joke back with him and tell him that if he had not found me he would have lost out on the 400 cfa and that I was lucky/a gift and he should give me my money back. And he smiled and chuckled and gave me back my change. HAha! I won! Sometimes I love playing these little games. But oh man, when you’re not in the mood, or having a bad day, these games are the last thing you wanna deal with. And sometimes they aren’t very nice. But luckily all conditions were right and things went my way.

The rains have come!! That means cooler weather! Well, kinda, sometimes. It gets cooler for a little while after the rains, cause it cools everything down, and then it takes just a little while for the sun to come back out an heat things up. I love the rain and everything, but it gets really muddy! And they tend to cut out the electricity when the rains come. So sometimes it gets a little annoying, but it’s cool.

This afternoon a mason is coming over to patch up the hole they punched through in my bathroom and to make a hole or a few in my front area for the water to run out. The other night I was scared that my house might flood cause it was raining so hard and it was just coming down so fast. My front gate thing kinda gets in the way of the water getting out so, it just creeps up to my door. And plus, with the dog (they’re like cats and don’t like water)… I want her to have enough dry room on the patio. So, I am having a hole or few punched out.

That’s all for now.