Melting!

We are just over here melting away with the long summer.

Good glory it's HOT!

Most expats book it out of here as fast as they can, but us??  We're just over here, like, "Hey! Look at us melting!"

It's great fun! You should join us, and share the fun of sweating over every possible inch of your person.  Smelling like something in a back alley, and also wearing clothes that are sweaty wet, is what we do here! It's the way of this land.

My belly sweats! Who knew this was even possible!?!? Feet sweat, too! (even in sandals.) Slippy sliding along in our sweaty sandy shoes. Sandy, dusty, sweaty feet prints on the floor, hair matted to your neck and not a cool shower within hundreds of miles.  Water that is either hot or scorch your skin till it falls off, is the norm of the land, during summer.

Even the ants look for refuge in the coolness of the air conditioning inside. Aside from sweating, ant killing is always on the agenda for the day.  These little buggers are mean and nasty and like the taste of our sweaty flesh. We make great sport of hunting the bugs before they hunt us. :)

We're the cool house, with a bounce house inside, because outside just isn't happening.  So, when bouncing commences, the windows and doors start shaking, squeals of delight and sometimes screams of little squirts mad at the bothersome sister/brother that has just taken things way to far.  (I would seriously hate to be our poor neighbor..) If our windows and doors are shaking, the unlucky family that lives next to us has to be hearing the same things we are.  Those poor souls.

As I said, most expat families have vacated this desert land, and will return late August/September, just in time for the major humidity onset.  It's quiet around the compound. Much more quiet on the roads. Less busy, and less chaos. It's somewhat nice to be some of those that remain behind, just to experience this short time of stillness. Unfortunately, it means we will be melting the summer away, while we wait out the heat for what will come this November...

Until then. We perpetually smell like sweat.  Glorious!