Muses on Moz

We've been having thunderstorm after thunderstorm... after thunderstorm. Always at night. For three nights, Matias and I woke up what sounded like 20 gigantic gongs being clanged at once right next to your ear. The doors and windows rattled. This was followed by children running in our room crying and then the dog started wailing and barking like a banshee...this went on for about half and hour. None of us slept much, so when I got up at 5am, I thought I would go on line and do some Christmas shopping... get ahead of the game. At this time of year, I always get up around 5 or 5:30 because the sun comes up so early here. But when I went to turn on the computer, there was nothing. I then looked at the modem and there was nothing. Black. The electricity going out is a pretty common event here, but when I checked around, the rest of the house had electricity. So I waited until Matias got up. He would be able to figure it out.

It turned out that along with all that thunder, there was of course, lightening, and the lightening just happened to completely fry the outlet where our computer was plugged in. So no more computer, no more internet, for awhile. This was pretty amazing to me, because I'd heard about this happening, but never known anyone who it happened to... so the lesson (to self and to others) is to unplug all those important things when there's a big lightening storm.
For now, we have no computer and no internet at home. And yesterday we discovered that the cable box is also fried, so no TV either. In a way, it's almost a relief.

Below, some photos from my recent trip to Nampula in Northern Mozambique