As they say, you can take the girl out of Britain, but you can't take Britain out of the girl, so I'm going to write about the weather! Most of the tropical countries I've been to have had similar weather most days but here it's almost as unpredictable as back home.
Traditionally, there are two wet seasons a year and 2 dry seasons. One wet season is from March until the end of May. True to form, it's rained a lot since we've been here and everything is pretty lush and green. Apparently though in recent years the seasons have been less clear-cut and this year has been particularly strange. December is always dry and sunny but this year it rained quite a lot we've been told. Meanwhile, during the last few weeks everyone was warning us that come June it would be sweltering and very dry. The first week of June it was hot but since then we've barely seen the sun. It's slightly worrying and you can't help wondering if global warming is to blame. I guess we'll see...
When it rains here you know about it! We also get loads of storms. They can be really impressive, with massive sheet-lightening over the mountains. The weather changes quickly too. Often we'll be sitting in our house and it will be sunny outside and then suddenly the wind picks up and within a few minutes the sky's dark and there's a tropical storm. I think the weather here is particularly dramatic because we're so near the Rwenzori mountains, which are very high and on the other side of them, in the DRC, is a massive rainforest. To be honest though, whilst we're working it's nice to have cool weather as it gets ridiculously hot down in the hospital when it's sunny. Fingers crossed for sun when we're on the beach though!
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