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Winter in Salone

Ok, another newsletter will hopefully soon be winging its way to people, so here’s just a brief update on what’s been happening. Basically life has been really interesting and also really busy, but has involved a lot of conferences and such like, keeping me away from my desk and really quite busy.

The weekends have been spent at the beach, I stood up on a surf board this Saturday, tho’ only very briefly and I’m still not sure if the board had managed to beach itself by the time I stood up- ah well, I can always practice again next time I go to the beach!

We have hit winter here- well, the beginning of the Harmattan (not sure on spelling), which is their idea of winter and means the air is a bit drier and we no longer have sudden deluges of water falling from the sky. It also means that anything that stays still for long enough gets a nice coating of red dust. I’ve been told there it will get dustier and visibility will decrease further (at the moment visibility's still fine) in January. I felt almost cold for the first time on Friday evening- we were sitting on the beach watching the sun go down (gorgeous colours but sunset happens very quickly compared to home) and there was a slight breeze that made you wish it wasn’t blowing, rather than the normal refreshment you feel when there’s movement in the air. Still, having a winter where the lowest temperature is about 23 degrees C is still slightly different to what I normally face in winter!!

We’ve managed to avoid most of the pre-Christmas trappings here- decorations in shops have only just been put up in the past week and I did see a (fake) Christmas tree being carried along the side of the road-ah well, I’ll soon hit the consumerism of the West, with the temperatures to match.

Labels: surfboards, weekend, winter

posted by Nenya @ 10:45 am