Today is Wednesday morning. It has been raining for 65 hours non-stop. The forecast is for rain all day today and tomorrow, with a possibility of more on Friday. At three o’clock in the morning, we had more thunder and lightning.
Yesterday afternoon, we got an email from Dianne who co-ordinates the volunteer English teachers at Los Ricos telling us that school would be cancelled. We usually have about 25 volunteers with five or six drivers. The roads are barely passable on normal days. In fact some portions don’t even qualify as a “road”. Dianne spoke with Lucha, the principal, and both agreed that the road to the school after you cross the dry river bed was “muy feo”…”very bad/ugly”. Dianne was afraid that the SUV’s may slip off the road and down the hillside.
We were so looking forward to teaching. It would be an opportunity to get out of the condo. It feels like we are back in Michigan on a cold, snowy, winter day. The only exception is in Michigan we have central heat. Here, we are dressed in layers inside the condo. We have also lost our electricity a few times in the past couple of days.
It will be a good day to stay inside and do some serious cooking. The only problem, we will need to go to the market. We will have to give that some extra thought. Stay tuned.
I'm making a tomato sauce for pasta. Had onions, garlic and some herbs. Also a chicken breast that I was going to use for a chicken salad for lunch. After tonight I desperately need to go to the store.
ReplyDeleteWell, we never made it to the store. We just got back from Rinconcito's. It was great just to get out of the condo. We were both going "stir crazy". We waited all day long for Bob to get a FedEx package that he had to sign. It finally arrived at 4:15 p.m.
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