RAIN

RAIN

The rainy season is supposed to end by early July in Timor-Leste, but this year seems to be an exception. It is raining everyday and it is nearly August. The roads are a mess. They are mountain roads going up and down at grades incomprehensible to someone who grew up in Iowa. Of course, this steepness is only accentuated by a surface that is random rocks and mud. It is making it difficult to get to and from work sites. When we are there, everything is a muddy mess. At least, the communities’ job, digging trenches, foundations, and whatever else we need them to dig, just got a lot easier.

The down part is that the trucks that deliver our sand and supplies use the muddy roads as an excuse so they don’t have to deliver anything to the communities, but just to the sub-warehouse in Passabe. I would agree with them if I didn’t know that the worst section of road was the one they have to traverse to get from the main warehouse in Oecusse to the sub-warehouse in Passabe. Our pick-up trucks don’t have the capacity and have to haul too many other things than supplies that should be dropped off on location.