Rain!

Today I woke up at 3am to make sure Raquel, a Spanish volunteer made it okay in her taxi to the train station. It was pouring rain when we woke up, and when the taxi didn´t arrive by 4am, we walked to the end of the road and waited a few minutes, but it didn´t show up. We walked through the river at the end of the road, that appears when the torrential rains pick up, and back up the farm. Apparently the taxi couldn´t cross another spontaneous river that had formed further up the road, and never made it to us. So we went back to sleep, Raquel a little concerned about having missed her train and about her clothes in her bag that were now soaking wet. We woke up for breakfast and she set off to take the bus that thankfully was passing the rivers, to the interstate bus station where she was to catch a bus to Delhi. Luckily her flight isnt until Tuesday, so she wasn´t missing that and the train was really cheap so she didnt feel too bad about losing her ticket.
The rains apparently are really late and really heavy for this region. Some of the rice even looks tired of it!
Many of the roofs are leaking, luckily not my bedroom one! And as long as the rain continues so continuously, the mosquitoes aren´t bad, but I can only imagine how they will be once the rain stops!
Things are so moist all the time too that I think I will send home some of my clothes and some of the gifts that I have purchased already. Sending things is fairly cheap (compared to Canada Post) and I think it will be the only way to avoid them ruining by the mold.
The temperature is something that now one is complaining about! It´s so lovely and fresh. Even working in the fields isn´t bad, if you don´t mind getting wet. I have to admit that I haven´t been out there as much as I should though...
This Tuesday, the 24th is the Raki festival, where girls give bracelets to their male friends and it means that they are now brother and sister and the brother has to protect the sister. In return the brother has to give the sister sweets. Hannah and I bought enough bracelets for everyone on the farm (and looking forward to so many sweets! haha)
The guava trees, all three varieties are ready to be eaten so today we are picking them and maybe make something out of them. There are two white varieties and one pink one.
We might also set up the badminton/volleyball net today!
As for work, the job descriptions for future interns is ready to be posted on the website. I have to learn/figure out how to do that and then its all ready. We have changed the system slightly, but those who reviewed it seemed to think they were good changes, so we´ll go ahead with them. The system they use, for the website, is Jhoomla, so if anyone has any tips or crash course sites I could go to, that´d be helpful!
Off to help pick those guavas!!