{"id":1854,"date":"2020-01-04T08:49:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T13:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2020-01-04T06:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T11:03:56","slug":"you-know-its-hot-season-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/2020\/01\/04\/you-know-its-hot-season-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You know it’s hot season when…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oh, hot season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we arrived in Tanzania the first time, it was during hot season. For some reason, our first hot season in Africa didn\u2019t seem all that bad. Mainly, I think, because we were expecting<\/em> Africa to be super duper hot! Because it\u2019s Africa. Duh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and having an apartment with air conditioning must have\nhelped, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then came cold season. Glorious cold season in which the\ntemperatures drop to a comfortable mid-80\u2019s range and it\u2019s even cool enough to\nsnuggle up in the mornings with a blanket and a hot cup of coffee without\nsweating one bit. It\u2019s the season all the wazungu (read: white people) here\nlove and cherish and reminisce about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But cold season did ruin hot season for us because all of a\nsudden we had experienced a different Africa; one that doesn\u2019t mean constant\nsweating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So our second hot season was one filled with too much\ncomplaining, way too much sweat, and lots of sitting in front of a whirring fan\nto find relief. I was also 9 months pregnant and we had moved to a home that\ndid not have A\/C but instead had lots of power outages. Not a good trade, if\nyou ask me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third hot season we conveniently avoided by having to\nleave the country in November, right before the full blow of hot season had set\nin. I must admit that I thanked God for the timing of that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we\u2019ve entered into our 4th<\/sup> hot season in Africa. I found that it\u2019s a bit like labor. You kind of forget how bad it is until you\u2019re in the middle of it again and think \u201cHow could I have forgotten that it hurts so much?!?\u201d Except that now I think \u201cHow could I have forgotten how hot it gets?!?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So for all of you who haven\u2019t experienced the joys of hot\nseason in the torrid zone of our planet, here is how you know it\u2019s hot season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know it\u2019s hot season when\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • You start sweating the moment you get up\u2026 even if that\u2019s at 5 AM.<\/li>
  • Your tap water comes out warm and sometimes even hot\u2026 even though you don\u2019t have a water heater installed.<\/li>
  • Your children are constantly covered in various forms of heat rash.<\/li>
  • Your washed clothes dry within an hour of hanging outside.<\/li>
  • You learn quickly, after having burnt the soles of your feet once, not to leave your shoes out in the sun before wearing them.<\/li>
  • Your toddler\u2019s daily outfit consists of a diaper. Or less. <\/li>
  • You flinch when your kids come to hug you because hugs with several layers of sweat in between are just a bit uncomfortable.<\/li>
  • You start hearing Christmas songs in the supermarket (as Christmas season conveniently falls within hot season).<\/li>
  • You know that several showers a day are not uncommon and sometimes just needed.<\/li>
  • Your children chug down water as if it was lemonade.<\/li>
  • You make up excuses to go anywhere that is air-conditioned.<\/li>
  • The biggest store in the mall (which happens to be owned by Wal-Mart) is out of fans. <\/li>
  • The coconut oil on your shelf never hardens (my essential oil friends would appreciate this!).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Happy hot season, my friends! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Certainly no white Christmas over here!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Oh, hot season. When we arrived in Tanzania the first time, it was during hot season. For some reason, our first hot season in Africa didn\u2019t seem all that bad. Mainly, I think, because we were expecting Africa to be super duper hot! Because it\u2019s Africa. Duh. Oh, and having an apartment with air conditioning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}