Here comes the rain

Blog time!! This week’s been pretty chill actually. This blog isn’t gonna be as long as the others, sorry, so if you have any complaints, by all means complain, I just probably won’t read them. Anyway, sorry back to business. The reason for the chillness for this week has been the rain. When it rains over here, it pours. And whatever picture you have in you head when I say it pours, add twice that amount of water and you might be getting there. It rained for most of the week. Football was cancelled because the football pitch had so much water on it that if we tried to play we’d be playing water polo instead of football. It’s crazy how quickly the weather can change here. We were at the school having our little games session thing and from leaving the classroom (which had windows) to the corridoor (which had windows) it went from sunny to pouring. Like I literally mean it changed like that when we walked through the door. It’s just unreal. But then Thursday we really didn’t do much either. On Friday we have a South African concert that we took the funstation kids to and also a competition near us. Me and Laurie decided that we’d go to the concert while Tom went to the competition. We supposed to document them both. Then it started raining. Like mad. And me and Laurie had walk about half a kilometre to get to the van. I feel sorry for Laurie, cause what I’m about to tell happened right after he woke up from a two hour nap. We had to run in the rain that whole half a kilometre. Now you might think “that’s not that big of a deal” but let me just say a few things. At day time the roads are filthy, so you dodge all the filth, but when it’s raining and it’s dark you can’t see anything clearly enough to dodge. Another thing is that this water was almost a foot high in some places. And another thing is that it get’s like that because the drains overflow, so just think abut that for a second. Oh yeah, one more thing, we were barefoot because our flip flops kept falling off. In all honesty, I don’t think I’ve ever had that much fun in the rain before. I felt like a kid, it was so amazing. So anyway, when we got to the concert we were absolutely frozen because the concert hall had AC in it. That was the first time I’d felt too cold over here. It was a weird feeling. Anyway the concert was pretty good, but it wasn’t the right thing to play to a bunch of kids. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you that the reason of all these competitions and concerts (most of which are being cancelled or moved because of the rain) is because it’s Children’s Day on the 14th of November. Children’s Day was created by a guy named Nehru simply to celebrate children. It’s a great thing. But back to the concert. The music was classical piano and cello with an English story thrown in there (bearing in mind there were probably 20 people out of the 100 who could speak English). They were amazing musicians, I just think they should’ve chosen something different for the kids. There was a team there from England that came down to see what we were up to and one of the guys there, Russ, bought me and Laurie a new, dry t-shirt so that we didn’t freeze to death. It was quite nice of him. After the concert the driver dropped us off outside the flat so we didn’t get that wet going back. It was just crazy seeing that much water with bikes and cars and autos just bouncing through it. I loved it.
This Saturday was the first day where we did pretty much nothing. The only thing we did was go to the Fruit Shop (such an amazing place. It’s the most delicious fruit juice on the planet I swear) and then go to Dosa Calling, which is a vegetarian restaurant and also delicious. So far I haven’t had anything edible that I didn’t like. Everything seems to be amazingly delicious over here. It’s gonna be tough not to get fat. Anyway that was an adventure too, because it was raining epically hard again and we decided we’d walk a way we didn’t know to get from the Fruit Shop to Dosa Calling. We… were… drenched. And the restaurant still let us in. The seats were soaked after we were done, but they were like plasticy sort of seats so it wasn’t that bad for them. Then on Sunday I had be at church for 8:30 cause I was playing again, and other than that the Sunday was pretty much the same as normal. We went to the youth thing afterwards, and then to the church office to kill time playing table tennis. After that about 10 of us went to Fruit Shop and then over to a guy named Blesson’s house to watch the Man U-Chelsea game. Chelsea won 1-0, which was good news for Laurie, the most avid Chelsea fan I’ve ever seen, but bad for the two Man U fans who were with us. After that we all decided to go to a ice cream shop for dessert at like 11:30. We never got there. I ended up riding on the back of the bike of the guy who was the biggest Man U fan there. It was quite an adventure. I learned that when a motorbike does a wheelie with someone on the back, the chances of staying on are very slim. I’ll let your imagination decide for you what happened on that ride. I’ll just say that we stopped twice, and never got to our destination because in the end he just took me back to the flat. It’s not as bad as you think though. I’m alive and I had a good conversation with him as well. Anyway that was Sunday, and then on Monday we did absolutely nothing because the rain had cancelled everything. And then today we might go to the school and have two fun stations, as well as a poker night till the wee hours of the morning. And that was my week. How was yours?