When I was a child I always wished the lights would go out on us at night because the thrill of pulling out the candles and flashlights was just so exciting! One reason it was so exciting was because it happened so rarely – but here, it’s almost a daily occurrence. It just doesn’t hold the same thrill when there are blackouts so regularly, and luckily for us, we bought our new flashlights just in the nick of time.
Usually the lights go out during the day and no one really cares because they spend their whole day outside – but tonight, just as it was getting dark (about 6:45pm) a rainstorm caused a blackout (the usual reason for this occurrence). But the lights still have not come back on.
When the blackout started we were almost to the church for the business classes and we waited and waited and not a single person came. Apparently, no one even bothers to come out when it’s raining and the lights go out. So we just waited, soaking wet and then came home. We are now sitting in the dark relying on battery power for the rest of the night. Hopefully the flashlights and computers don’t die on us before we are ready for bed :)
Anyway, that’s my story for today – I think all that I’d like to do tonight is reiterate the fact that this place has every kind of creeping thing in super size! I about got attacked by a frog tonight! Not really attacked, Joey was actually chasing it, but it scared me to death! Also, apparently France had a company that came in here a while ago and was paying the farmers to farm snails. Never before have I seen snails in such gigantic sizes. When driving down the road you can barely go a few miles without seeing someone with a massive plate of snails for sale. Even the Abu’s farm them here. GROSS!
Don’t these look delicious!?
Oh, apparently the guy who was in charge of the operation to sell all the snails to France was corrupt and the whole organization went down. Now they’re just stuck with a whole bunch of snails that no one but themselves want to eat.
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