It's official, rainy season is coming!!!
Yesterday was the first rain we've had for 7 months and it was a great feeling! It was the start of afternoon lessons and apart from the group of 4 adults I was teaching, there was only 1 adult and 2 children in the computer room. The sky started to darken and, as a joke, I turned and said to the pupils that it's going to rain (it's been that long I'd become sceptical that it would ever rain again!). Then a massive sandstorm and a powercut plunged Kaolack into complete darkness and, running outside, I saw people running in all directions trying to get home. I went back into Diapalante and continued my lesson (changing the subject however to the current weather developments! :P)
Then the rain hit. Thunder, lightening, lots and lots of rain and me and my small group of students were now stuck in Diapalante. So I continued the lesson through the storm, and I have to say, it was one of the most exciting lessons I have ever done! :P So I was very happy that the rain had come but I do need to start bracing myself for the things to come: mosquitos, frogs, insects and the inconvenience of having to walk the long way to places in order to avoid the massive puddles that block the roads now!
Wish me good luck! ;)
Yesterday was the first rain we've had for 7 months and it was a great feeling! It was the start of afternoon lessons and apart from the group of 4 adults I was teaching, there was only 1 adult and 2 children in the computer room. The sky started to darken and, as a joke, I turned and said to the pupils that it's going to rain (it's been that long I'd become sceptical that it would ever rain again!). Then a massive sandstorm and a powercut plunged Kaolack into complete darkness and, running outside, I saw people running in all directions trying to get home. I went back into Diapalante and continued my lesson (changing the subject however to the current weather developments! :P)
Then the rain hit. Thunder, lightening, lots and lots of rain and me and my small group of students were now stuck in Diapalante. So I continued the lesson through the storm, and I have to say, it was one of the most exciting lessons I have ever done! :P So I was very happy that the rain had come but I do need to start bracing myself for the things to come: mosquitos, frogs, insects and the inconvenience of having to walk the long way to places in order to avoid the massive puddles that block the roads now!
Wish me good luck! ;)