May 31, 2005
No Rain
Thunderstorms over the weekend knocked out the cable internet all over the city. It’s been damn near African around here lately, stifling hot days leading to a three or four hour storm in the afternoon. And as I may have mentioned before, the rain around here does nothing…NOTHING…to cool things down. Rain in Bulgaria (At least the parts of Bulgaria I’ve called home) just makes things humid, heavy, and muddy. The streets were caked in mud today, and as the temperature hit 100 around noon, that mud turned into the finest dust you would ever not want to breathe.
Like clockwork today, it’s getting darker at 3. The clouds are looming in and an absolute deluge seems to be coming. Hopefully it won’t. I don’t want to lose the internet again.
Whatever the weather turns into in the afternoons, it makes for pretty rough teaching in the morning. Everybody fans themselves most of the time, and I’m certainly one of them.
Anyway, it’s hot. Enough of all that. Today’s photo is again courtesy Sharad. It’s the Rozhen Monastery near Melnik that I talked about. Enjoy.