RAIN

The rains have finally come! It started raining on Thursday, and has been raining on and off ever since (today is monday). We are all happy to be wearing long pants and sweatshirts, and it is cool at night - in the 50s. While Windhoek hasn’t had a long rain like this for two years, it has been raining too much in the northern regions. There has been flooding near the Angolan border, and many of the regions are experiencing an efundja, or a seasonal flood, of the oshanas, which are seasonal wetlands. There is nothing like that in Windhoek, though it all is suddenly remarkably green and plants are flowering. Everyone is talking about the rain.