Girls and Boys Come Out To Play

Indonesia has two seasons : a wet one and a dry one. When I arrived in Maumere I was told that the wet season was over and that we could expect to see very little rain until about October or November. The last two days have proved the forecasters wrong and have given a foretaste of the delights ahead.

Yesterday, while having lunch at the harbour, we could see the rain moving in from the sea and soon the heavens opened with what my youngest nephew recently described in an email to me as a "masaf rain pore" which lasted for about two hours. Unlike at home, where everybody runs indoors when it rains, the place got busier as the rain persisted and soon a very competitive barefoot football game was in progress - using the lakes to control the ball is part of the skill set of any footballer here !