You may remember a rather ineloquent blog entry some months ago about the heat. Well at that time the temperature wasn’t a fraction of what was to come and week by week the temperatures climbed until Nicaragua became a baking furnace. April was unbearable and we fought over shade, got used to being damp with sweat and we and everything were permanently covered in dust from the parched countryside. 
Nicaragua has just two seasons, Winter and Summer, one hot the other hotter, the only differfence being that it rains in winter. Although Nicaragua is in the nothern hemesphire the seasons are reversed to ours with Summer ranging from Nov-April and Winter May-October.
Last week the rains started and all has changed. Nicaragua bloomed overnight and within a matter of days a bleached crisp landscape has metamorphosed into a lush green paradise. Where once there was dust and rocks there is now pasture, where spindly trees and pathetic branches languished there is now thick colourful blossom and succulent leaves. It’s quite incredible.
Here are a few examples of before and after:
1. Swings in La Prusia school with dust and grass
2. Trees nearly dead and then in leaf
3.School Yard La Prusia (playing football inthe dust or bringing a horse to school to graze!)
(it might make you happier to know its been lashing it down with rain for days now!)
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