Hotter than any hot I've ever known!

It's hot.



I have truly never experienced heat like this ... except for last August when we came for the first time.

I heard someone say that it feels like a hair dryer is being blown in front of your face all the time!!! That does give it a close idea of what it feels like. Except the hair dryer couldn't be on high, because that would give too much wind relief from the heat! It would have to be on low and be a slow steading heat that just takes your breath away when you try to breath. That's more like it. .... yikes....!

We are incredibly thankful to have air conditioning at our flat. It is amazing to me how everyone just carries on outside no matter what the temperature is. The last few days it's been 104, 105, 106 & 106 again today. It's just plain hot! I feel so helpless when I see people doing so much manual labor in this exhausting heat. I know that they have to in order to have money to eat that day. They are more 'conditioned' to this heat than I am since they are from here and have grown up with it. But it's still sweltering hot and even some people from here are complaining ... so that makes me feel a little better!!!!

The biggest problem is that we don't have electricity all the time. So no electricity means no air conditioning! Yesterday our current (as they say here) went out 7 times ... sometimes for just a little bit, sometimes for a few hours, we just never know.

The complex we are in does have a generator that kicks on when the electricity goes out, but we can only run a light and fans with that. The a/c can't run on the generator. So it's a, kinda funny, mad dash when the electricity goes off because we have to race around and turn off the a/c's and basically anything else that's on before the generators try to kick on or else our generators won't run either!

At night it can be problematic ... we are sleeping so we don't realize the instant the electricity goes off. So eventually when we wake up because we are so hot, we realize it's gone off ... but since we weren't up to turn off the a/c's that were on, the generator didn't come on either. So then we have nothing! No lights, no fans, no nothing until the main power kicks back on. We can go outside to this main power grid that is for our block and flip a breaker (I think that's what it's called!) and then our generators can come back on until the main power comes back. Doing this in the middle of the night, isn't all that fun though. But we have done it ... anything for a fan to move a little air when it's this hot!

At the school where I meet to take my language lessons, they don't have a generator. So when the main power is off, there's nothing! No fans. We sat there for 2 hours of our 3 hour lesson yesterday just melting and dripping sweat ... it almost began to be comical. I just never knew that I could be that hot. Then to have to learn on top of it ... let's just say it wasn't the most productive day I've had. shew. Today was better though, the fans stayed on the whole time!!!!

I kept telling myself last December and January when everyone in the States was freezing and had such bad weather and we were here in the 70's every day that the tables would turn and we would be wishing for your weather soon. Well it's happened!