Ghana does not have winter, spring, summer or fall. Instead they have rainy season and dry season. Meaning, that for one part of year it rains very very much (rainy season) or they have no rain (dry season). Right now, we are in between dry season and rainy season. However, we have so far experienced a few rain storms!
The rain storms are really fun and cool (well, at least we think so!) When it rains here, it really rains hard! The water comes down in buckets! Everything is soaked within a 1 minute. And the rain is warm; so it is like having a really big warm shower! So Alicia and I sometimes just stand in the rain for fun!
But when we have a rain storm, the electricity sometimes (usually) goes out. That means blackout! So no more lights, no TV and no more refrigerator! This is a problem when we want to cook dinner; since we have no lights, we use candlelight! We can still cook with a stove, because we have a gas stove. Cooking by candlelight can be really fun, but its not easy since you can't see very much…so the food we cook during a blackout is usually not very good (too salty fried eggs, burnt potatoes, and overcooked fish ...)…. But at least we have fun!
Rain storms are really fun, but not great when you want to cook!
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