The humidity here is sapping my energy something rotten. It’s fantastically humid. Everything is very damp and smells as such. I’m even nostalgic about the smell!. I only feel like I have energy to eat and sleep. It’s taking a while to accustom myself to the climate. The dog keeps looking longingly at me, he wants to lie under my bed. He loves to lie under my bed, it’s the coolest place in the house. I have sympathy. If it was socially acceptable (and I wasn’t so afraid of cockroaches) I’d lie under my bed too. There’ s possibly few things worse than damp hot smell.. that’s damp hot smell plus damp hot dog. Sorry Roy.. afuera!
Spent the afternoon in the medical clinic with my god daughter. She’s some problems with her teeth. A long wait. A very informal system, people come and go, doctors call the names but people have waited so long that they’ve disappeared to buy something and come back later. A few appointments to each exam room at a time, children come and go… the newspapers disassembled page by page with screams of delight. Younger brothers and sisters made to cry by their elder siblings, better behaved children looking on enviously at the fun being had by others. I wait and wait and wait and find myself understanding my god daughters absorption in her game of ‘clinic’ using the sand, dirt, rubbish and (not that needle head Heather!!) bits and pieces there about. 2pm dressed in white shorts and white t-shirt ready for the doctor… 3pm.. a car ride later, some rolling around on the chairs and floors of the clinic and a game of ‘clinic’ in the dirt and she’s no longer the best dressed!
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