The readying

We finished our training here in homestay land today. Tomorrow we have our packing/ saying goodbye day, and the day after, we leave. I think we are all ready for homestay to be over - we know we have bigger fish to fry elsewhere. 

My mama insisted once again that I reapply henna tonight. She says I have to do it again tomorrow too. She will not be satisfied until it is literally black. It's a dark reddish brown currently. So once again I have kanga paw, which of course gets sweaty and awkward in the hot African night. 

This morning, around three a.m., there was a torrential downpour. Like tropical downpour serious. So intense it actually woke me up - that and a few huge drops splat on my cheek; there must be a leak in our roof somewhere. 

Humidity, singing, riding in land cruisers on bumpy red dirt roads.