I used to say that my life in The Gambia was the two week holiday in paradise that never ends. Nowadays it’s more being the proverbial frog in the pot of water on the stove.
There are plenty of places around the world far worse off than here – Ukraine, Palestine, etc – so don’t take this as a plea for sympathy, just an update on why TNPS continues to surface and disappear at random.
It is literally a matter of not knowing from one minute to the next if the electric will be on or off, and when it does go off it’s a total guessing game as to whether it is a usual short-time outage, so sit tight and wait for it to come back on – or a load-shedding event that typically runs 8-14 hours.
The consensus is that we will have this problem at least until our winter arrives and temperatures plummet to the low 20s Celsius.
Until that time expect TNPS to be even more erratic than usual.
On the bright side, school activities are largely unaffected other than me being cooked alive inside the classroom and then boiled alive in sweat at night. Thankfully water is holding steady, but six bucket showers through the dark nights is not my idea of fun.
I used to say that my life in The Gambia was the two week holiday in paradise that never ends. Nowadays it’s more being the proverbial frog in the pot of water on the stove.
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