The end of the rainy season

The rainy season in Senegal is just about over. Lately we’ve been getting about 1 day of rain every two weeks… the rain immediately cools the weather down, it’s amazing how much so. I’m somewhat happy that the rainy season is ending, but also somewhat sad about it. I’m happy because it means that the cool and dry season is soon approaching… which means no more mold! It is so hot and humid here that when I take my clothes off the shelves to wear, they have a slight moldy scent… a pair of my shoes that I brought from the states were actually covered in a dusting of white mold! And I just opened up my wallet and pulled out a piece of paper, and that piece of paper was speckled with mold. It’s disgusting!! But there isn’t really anything I can do about it. I also want the rainy season to be over because my garden springs up weeds like crazy during the rainy season! It’s virtually impossible to control. As for the good things about the rainy season… the tiny stink bugs that infested my room prior to the rainy season disappeared (and it seems like they are now slowly making their come-back… grrr… I really can’t stand those bugs!). The rainy season is also good for what us PCVs call “guilt free reading”.