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Tat-tat, It looks like rain

If you were anything like I was as a kid, you loved Winnie the Pooh. Its amazing, but I can’t remember the last time I read a book about Pooh Corner but I still connect certain terms with Poohisms. Its been happening a lot with “tat tah looks like rain” here at the academy lately. Which makes sense, it is rainy season, but what gets me is that unlike home I can’t ever figure out at the beginning of the day whether it will or it won’t rain. There is no Weather Channel, and even if there was, I don’t have a TV nor could I go somewhere closer than a thirty minute cab ride to find one. The web is useless; it has given me the same weather since the day I packed. Sometimes I guess and a pattern emerges, then just when I think I have it down, the weather changes.

You see here rain changes things; if your windows are open on the dorm side you better hope you have a friend over there. Because by the time you trek over there you’ll be soaked and your room flooded. The Internet goes out; not that it’s ever exactly reliable at being anything other than being unreliable. You can loose cell service - a real drag if your thinking about your windows from the school side. The “road” turns to mud, halfway between the academy and Africico, a staff refuge across the Volta with French fries and cold beer, the road actually ceases to exist if you don’t know what you’re looking for, it is replaced by what one might nicely call a pond about knee deep of mud and water, a challenge for any car, not to mention one of Ghana’s famous top of the line taxis’. And, as you might have guessed the snakes come out to play, yuck!

So I guess I'll stay put for now, and enjoy the not knowing that comes with everyday here.

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