Harmatten

When i left my internship on monday, i noticed that the climate had drastically changed since the morning time. I couldn't figure it out. Was it fog? smog? a fire? It seriously looks like a mild San Francisco/Berkeley fog outside. It can't be fog because it's much too warm. And if it's smog...shoot son, we're in trouble. I discovered today that this climate has a name -- harmatten. It is a dry, dusty wind that blows over here from the Sahara desert. So it's DUST! Very tiny particles of dust. Apparently harmatten is supposed to occur in december through february during the dry season, but it didn't come this year. And now here it is, as we're entering the wet season. I hear the harmatten we're experiencing now isn't as extreme as it normally is. During the dry season, it is extremely hot and dry and the nights are very cold. The weather is slightly cooler now a days just because the dust dims the sun. But it feels extra humid. bleh. When harmatten rolls around, the common cold comes along with it. So many people have been getting sick, but it's a 24-hour thing i think. Glenda got it two nights ago and she was bundled up in a jacket, a giant fleece blanket, a down blanket, and a scarf...and it was 85 degrees. But she was fine the next day. =P i'm coming down with something too. Nothing hospital worthy though. Just a sore throat and my body's a bit achy. But i figure, if the Ghanaians have it, i don't have much to worry about because I know it's something expected and normal...

On a different note, i wrote the fasted 8-paged paper in my life. In two and a half hours, with a half hour to spare before class. AND it wasn't all BS, for those of you who are ready to say "o yeah? well i can write one in ____." It was a report on the 6-day northern trip. At least I'll save time writing about it on my blog.