Rain rain go away!

It has been raining for 3 days straight! No hiking, no running, no walking around, no nothing! Only Spanish class and then home. Apparently, there is a hurricane passing over the eastern part of Guatemala and we are getting all the rain from it! Que lastima!

To give you an idea of the proportion of this rain, here is a story from yesterday:

Marissa and I wanted to go to the Guardaria (the daycare here) and volunteer and hang out with kids. It's in a pretty rural area (dirt roads, 1 tienda, cows on the side of the road, wild dogs walking around, Mayan folks in traditional clothing...the works!) We took a bus to get there and it was pouring rain! We arrived at the Guardaria and the lady who runs the place tells us to get back home as soon as possible. "Es muy peligroso por tus" she says. Apparently, when it rains like that, there is so much erosion and the streets are so bad that they turn into rivers and creeks and it becomes impossible to get anywhere! She was worried that the bus wouldnt even come back for us! So we waded through the streets that were already beginning to fill up with runoff water from the crops and dirt 'streets' (ie- poop water from all the animals, giant broken off pieces of stone from the mountain, dirt and dung and what not) and made it to the main part of town where we had to wait in the pouring rain for the bus. Yes, it did finally come.

Thanks to North Face for my water proof rain coat...at least the top part of my body was moderately dry.

It was just so crazy to experience that because those people live there! I mean, this was heavy rain, but imagine what it must be like for them during one of the many full on hurricanes that the areas suffers per year.

It really makes me feel Santosha. Content to have what I have, content to be who I am, and mostly content to be able to have an experience to make me appreciate my contentment.