Little April Showers

April is the hottest month in Cambodia. Meaning 100 degrees, humidity, buckets of sweat, multiple showers a day, dust everywhere and trees heavy with gorgeous yellow blossoms. However, April is coming with an unseasonal twist this year, heavy rains.

The communications office of LWF Cambodia moved last month from upstairs to a room adjacent to the main building. Today we are experiencing rain in our new office for the first time.

It starts with Chanthorn noticing the ominous signs of rain outside. Ratna agrees it will rain. Then I ask if we have a tin roof. Oh yes we do.

It starts with a few random plinks, like someone is throwing rocks up there. Within seconds it escalates to hammering and pounding. The thunder is rolling and the sound is almost like machine gun sound effects from a movie or soda can full of pebbles I used to shake at my dog but neither really captures it. Though we have to shout over it to be heard, I love the sound. There is nothing quite like it.