Season Changes!

It's that time of the year when you can feel that something different is happening with regards to the weather. Although they say, there are only 2 seasons here, the rainy and the dry season, it definitely feels a bit cooler than usual especially early morning and late afternoon/evening. At around 5pm, the humidity normally rises, but over these last few days, it has been cooler, more breezes, which makes a huge difference on how comfortable you are. I now enjoy sitting more out on the verandah, where most afternoons, it's unbearable. The temperature still soars to 31 deg C, but at least not to 38 or 40 deg C. This is what they call the dry season, with more grey skies, but not much rain.

We are also experiencing changes, like for instance, Torden has a runny nose, in fact most of the children he plays with have it. I had a sore throat yesterday with an upset stomach most of the weekend. Paul calls it the "kinshasa shuffle", a term, most expats use, specifically knowing that someday or other, you will come across it. It could be the water you perhaps drank, the fruit in the salad that wasn't washed properly or simply some or other bug you picked up.

We are just happy that most of the pre-warned marches that took place since last week, regarding the imprisonment of Bemba, by the Belgians, was peaceful! That feeling of anxiety has left me this week.