Soaked

Rainy season is... almost here?  Just as we were getting off work yesterday, a mondo storm started and the rain was just... wailing on everything.  Jess and I got thoroughly soaked before a taxi pulled up to take us home.  Thunder! Lightening! Gale-force winds!  It was fun.  :)  I'm sure it will get old pretty quick though.  Sunny right now, but who knows when the next one will roll in.  At least the power wasn't out for more than 5-10 minutes at a time.  It was the worst on Monday night, when the power went out for a good portion of the entire night, and it was so hot in the apartment that I could barely breathe.  I ended up just sitting in my underwear on the sofa (one of the rare times I sit in the living room) and fanning myself with a paper fan... nodding off.  Only thing was, I would wake up from feeling so suffocated without the airflow... bad news bears.  I could barely stay awake the next day... ended  up sneaking a nap on the floor, hiding under the desk of our vet epidemiologist's office...

I'm flying to Lagos tomorrow to see what the hustle bustle is all about.  Here's hoping that it will be a better representation of what "real" Nigeria is like... squeeze in a bit of travel, sight seeing before I head off to medical school.  It's weird to think that this will all be over soon... I was so looking forward to the end, and here I am, only a few weeks away...

If anything, I'll miss the fresh mangoes and papayas that I can get here... but definitely won't miss the haggling over prices when I buy produce, although I did finally find a vendor at the fruit and vegetable market that was actually reasonable.

Let the countdown begin!  Oh yeah, Happy Easter to everyone!