When the lights went out...
Since my last update life in Tumu has been pretty quiet. It has been Easter holidays so I have had no teaching to do, and with the arrival of 10 brand new PC's (still to be set up) the computer centre is going through a refit so the existing PC's are not fully connected, consequently I have not even been doing any ad-hoc training so have made the most of the time to write some user manuals and training courses by taking my laptop to the airconditioned computer centre - absolute bliss!!!!
April in Tumu is the hottest month of the year. The temperature has been in the high 40's for the most part and even reaching 50+ on some days... And then the lights went off... What was the cause who only knows. But they went off early on in the month over night, no sleep those nights that was for certain! If there is no breeze April nights are in the hight 30's (indoors) Towards the end of the month we had an occasional downpour of rain which dropped the temperature to a much more comfortable level. Luckily this is when the lights went off...
It seems so far, you either get rain, or electricity, they don't seem to work together. The lights went off on a Thursday night around 2am. They came back on for a couple of hours on Friday evening but off again until Saturday afternoon, We were lucky to have power all saturday night but it went off agaim about 7am Sunday morning only to finally return Tuesday 4:30pm.
Luckily as I said the temp had dropped cos of the rains so sleep was oj but no power - no fridge, no fridage - no cold water/drinks. Absolute nightmare as all you want to do in that kind of situation is to leave the house head to the bar and have a nice cold beer!!! - NO COLD BEER
Also meant I couldn't do any work - which was a good thing schools were out for easter!
April in Tumu is the hottest month of the year. The temperature has been in the high 40's for the most part and even reaching 50+ on some days... And then the lights went off... What was the cause who only knows. But they went off early on in the month over night, no sleep those nights that was for certain! If there is no breeze April nights are in the hight 30's (indoors) Towards the end of the month we had an occasional downpour of rain which dropped the temperature to a much more comfortable level. Luckily this is when the lights went off...
It seems so far, you either get rain, or electricity, they don't seem to work together. The lights went off on a Thursday night around 2am. They came back on for a couple of hours on Friday evening but off again until Saturday afternoon, We were lucky to have power all saturday night but it went off agaim about 7am Sunday morning only to finally return Tuesday 4:30pm.
Luckily as I said the temp had dropped cos of the rains so sleep was oj but no power - no fridge, no fridage - no cold water/drinks. Absolute nightmare as all you want to do in that kind of situation is to leave the house head to the bar and have a nice cold beer!!! - NO COLD BEER
Also meant I couldn't do any work - which was a good thing schools were out for easter!
posted by Lucy at 11:51 am
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