cold rain

I wrote the following a few days ago, but didn’t get to post it earlier. So here it is, read, and I will post more soon. By the way, I’m much better again.

[12.08]
I finally got a lot of time to write my book. I'm sick. I caught a cold. It must have been the fan in our bed room, swirling the whole night, or the air conditioning, that freezes me to the bones whenever I enter the lab after just getting soaked in the nice monsoon rain.
The monsoon might last just for 10 minutes, usually the 10 minutes you are walking home from work. And as soon as you reach the door it stops as suddenly as it started. It just doesn't need more because those few minutes are more than enough to get you wet to your underwear even if you do have an umbrella.
Sometimes though, it stays and we have rain for the whole night. Lucky are those who don't have to leave the house.

There are a few things that go together with the monsoon. First of all the fact that the sky is always cloudy. Seeing the sun is rare and only once have I seen a star, briefly appearing on the night sky before being covered by thick clouds again. Second, the air is always humid. The cloth don't dry on the line, everything is in danger of getting moldy, and every night, I feel a disgusting dampness on my mattress and pillow.

[oh, just after writing this paragraph I picked up my backpack, which stood in a corner for a week, and is well covered with mold now. I'm grateful for any ideas on how to keep things from rotting.]

Maybe I'm also rotting. After being here for more than a week I had some issues with my stomach/digestion for the first time.


And here a few more pictures.



This is our seventh room mate, the lizard. He comes in every now and then through the small hole in the wall next to the window. He's a relaxed fellow but a bit shy, so I'm very happy I got this picture of him.



This is the building in which we live. I was told that the moldy black color appears after only one monsoon season. So it's not surprising the buildings here aren't as clean as in Deutschland.



And this is the view we have from our apartment. Depending on the conditions, the boarder between green and gray can be closer or farther away.