The skies of Humjimbre and Bekwai remind me of China and India. You can't really tell if clouds or smog are graying up the skies and you long for a rare blue sky day. Except in West Africa, a blue sky day means the sun has a clear shot of UV laser to your body.
Well today was a blue sky day, which would have been fine except our normal day of plastering inside turned to brick laying and mortaring in the full view of the sun. Of course it was a work day I decided to wear short sleeves and not my wicking long sleeve sheets which are amazing.
Needless to say, even a Greco-Roman man can recognize when he's 10 seconds away from lobster-dom. I hit that point at about 2. Luckily there was still plenty of plastering to do till quitting time at 4. (we start at 8 so don't go thinking we're being lazy).
Somehow even though I sweated more, worked harder and longer than any day here, slept the night with no AC because even when the power was back on mine had died, I still had enough energy for some post work soccer. Bad ass. Now tomorrow will hurt, but today I thank the gods that invented oral rehydration tabs.
Dinner time. More to come.
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