The weather here reminds me of Prince Rupert, the driving rain. The days are blistering hot and the afternoons and evenings pour with rain to cool everything down. I spent the weekend in the Eastern Highlands. It's a beautiful part of the country, the scenery is unlike anywhere else. I came back on Sunday in a bus that looks like it should've been sent to the garbage dump years ago. It was pouring rain and the roof was leaking so we were all getting soaked. As a true West Coast girl I bring my rain coat with me EVERYWHERE and was the only one able to stay dry. I drove up on the Friday with a friend of a friend who is now a friend (that was a confusing sentence). It's a newly married couple who spend 2 weeks in the city and 2 weeks in Bonda (a mission village). The husband's family owns a plot of land that he and his wife are turning into an orphan camp. As we were talking he asked me if I knew how to shoot a rifle. I was a bit concerned at the question and said that I had been to a range once with Richard and had shot a few rounds. He said that baboons had become a HUGE problem in the fields. That someone had to stay on guard 24/7 to make sure they didn't eat the plants and dig up the field. I thought this was interesting as in Canada it's deer that eat people's gardens and other animals that eat in the fields. I also thought monkeys or baboons were cute animals you saw at the zoo, apparently not! In Penhalonga there are monkeys that run around the mission, the sisters even have their own who has taken up residence near them. When we got to their house, the floor had flooded and it reminded me of our house in Rupert where the basement flooded on a regular basis. Although people here don't have pumps or wet vacs, it all has to be mopped and dried by hand! The roofs here are metal sheets and lots of times there is nothing between the metal and the ceiling (if there is a ceiling!) Tomorrow I am going to an animal park for a picnic. This will be my second one. The parks here are different, it's the people that are in a closed off area and the animals are wild and free on the otherside of the fence. I like this idea much better and now I know what it feels like to be the one in a cage!!!!