Hot has Come

When I came back to Tamale from Tumu I sensed the weather being a bit thicker. It is always hot here but there has been a beautiful dryness that keeps one alive and unsweaty. I don't mind the heat when it is so dry.BUT...that all ended. This batch of humidity swept thru on Friday and Saturday. The power went off for a little bit-which means no fans and there was no breeze. Sunday morning around 1am the power went off again. A quick storm came thru and we had a bit of rain and wind. Damary and I both came out of our rooms because we were so hot with no fans to cool us. Thankfully, that wind helped but once the rain stopped so did the wind.It.Was. Brutal. At church that Sunday morning one man came to me and said, "last night I suffered-oooo!" I thought, if he is Ghanaian and suffering then this must be bad!The weather has continued on this same humid streak since then. March and April are the hot months and we have been warned. This whole week it has been around 100+ degrees with humidity around 20% compared to when it was almost 0%. My job is to walk around practicing Dagbani with people. It is sooooo hot. I am exhausted. Everything in me is drained.The nights have been even worse. It doesn't really cool down and it seems my fan loves to just blow hot air around. Before I sleep I like to read and I was laying on my back with my knees bent and under my knees sweat was pouring and it was trailing down the back of my thighs. UGH. Also,  I am usually the queen of sleep, like I have a gift, but not this week. I have not been able to fall asleep even though I can barely keep going. And I wake up during the night. And when I wake up I find my pillow and sheets soaked with sweat. It is gross.Damary and I just look at each other in the morning and say, "how was your sleep?" and we don't even need to answer, we know it was too hot to sleep. I have not had a quiet time since Tuesday because I can't fall asleep and stay asleep and so in the mornings I cannot get up. I tell Jesus I just can't. I am too tired. I know he understands. But I find myself kind-of missing him. So, maybe I will do my time with him in that time when I can't fall asleep. We will see.Enough of this complaining. It is Africa, what do you expect!?Anyways, I will persevere! This month and April have the potential to be really good language months because I will not be traveling or have any other distractions. One thing you can pray for is that I would be bold to speak. Me? Not bold to speak?? Hardly!! But with Dagbani I find it is easier just to listen to conversation and be lazy, though I know listening is good too. But if I don't use/talk the new phrases and words I am learning I will never really have it. When I did try to say a new sentence one lady, who doesn't speak English, just shook her head and said, "Oooo Wunzooyea". Meaning, I have no idea what you are saying. That made me to be a bit more timid and hesitant to try again. Please be praying.I think I may have found a new motivation-- ice cream. When I was in the lovely land of Burkina (you can read that in my previous post) I bought cream (along with other things) and with that cream I made ice cream! Then I thought, since I love Culvers, maybe I should try custard ice cream. So, I made some of that too. It is not exactly the same, but still. AND I have just a bit of cream left and I found a copycat recipe of Dairy Queen's soft serve ice cream. I will try that and see how it goes. Maybe if I do well with language then I get me a little treatie-weatie right? It doesn't really fit into my 21 day fix eating plan but how many of those crazies are in 100 degree weather learning Dagbani? Yeah, exactly.   :)Love you all.