Rainy Season Goes On

Rainy season goes on...but it does make it super green!  Work continues, here and there, on the new bell tower on campus.  Here's a photo of the progress, above. 

The worst part about rainy season, as I've complained many many times, is the muddy roads.  My road is predictably in full rainy-season mess now.  

The corn field next to my house has been planted again and is coming up nicely.  With the weather here, farmers can get two or three crops a year; the last batch of corn was harvested in January.  At the coldest, it rarely gets below fifty degrees, and that only at night, so growing seasons depend upon getting enough rain, not on frost.  

Above, here's another view from just around the corner from my gate.  Definitely green and growing! 

The students have been out of school for two weeks now (well, as of tomorrow morning), and most of them are thoroughly bored already.  I had a couple of visitors today who have already gotten bored enough to want to hang out with their teachers again.  Paulo and Mathayo are from up in Monduli Juu, the collection of Maasai villages up on the summit of the mountain, but they're staying with Koimere (the preacher of the Monduli Juu church and also a school board member), who lives here in Monduli town.  We often call the main town here Monduli Chini (lower Monduli) to differentiate.  They came by to greet me and to pick up some school work I had printed for them. Since they have about a mile to walk back into town, I invited them in to hang out for a while to wait out a downpour.