And it rained...

The last couple of nights it has rained quite a bit here. It pours and dumps and feels like the heavens are emptying their washbasins on our heads. The lightning is so bright it seems as though someone has turned a light on upstairs. The other night it rained so much the water was up to the level of the corridors and had completely flooded the patio. I ran into the garden to stop the water that was coming through the puncture points in the covering from destroying the beds. I rigged up some buckets and got very wet in the process! The upside is we can use the rainwater I collected for the plants in the next few days.

The girls in this picture are two of the girls that stay here in the dormitory. The one on the right just had a birthday and so we all sang a song for her at lunch.  Across the patio from them is the bakery workshop, one of the many workshops for the girls here. There is also a sewing room, jewelry-making, leather-crafting (mostly adorable key chains), and of course the garden. The bakery also makes the snacks for the girls, which means we have cake pretty much every day!