This has been quite an eventful week. On Monday Simon went back to school for his third year, and Benjy started his first year at school! Marc is teaching them (using materials provided by the French education system) and they all have matching school uniform. Here they are, hard at work:
Then on Wednesday night it rained all night, and on Thursday we woke up to the highest levels of water we'd ever seen here. This is our (supposedly raised-up) car port, and the view over the wall of our compound towards the main road.
We had been praying for rain, but this was a rather overwhelming answer! Thankfully the water levels went down relatively fast, and despite further rain since, we haven't been flooded like this again. Down in the village one whole area was completely flooded, with water thigh-high in some people's homes. Apparently my dress-maker's workshop was full of water and all the clothes were soaked. Part of the problem was a "bridge" which had been built over the drainage ditch leaving only a tiny hole for water to get through, meaning that the floodwaters built up in the village instead of flowing down to the river. As Marc said, a good example of the problems of urbanisation (and lack of town planning?)!
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