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Step outside at this time of year and you’ll see people casting anxious glances at the sky.
It’s the pre-rainy season period, when the local micro-climate is a battleground between the Atlantic/Saharan weather systems in the north and west fighting a losing battle against the advancing summer storms from central-east Africa.
We’ve only had a handful of token showers so far, but that’s enough to make some roads temporarily impassable without 4WD vehicles, and going shopping in the local markets involves leaping from rocky outcrop to rocky outcrop to reach the sellers with their rickety stalls precariously balanced on tiny islets amid mud and pothole pools of water.
Push-push boys are busily carting wheelbarrow-loads of rocks and throwing them into the mini lakes to make stepping stones and more tiny islands, but of course displacing water with rocks just raises the level of the water overall. And splashes muddy water everywhere – notably over the legs and shoes of careless shoppers like me.
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NOTE TO PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATORS:
These short diary essays will be released for $0.00 via Babelcube. No royalties therefore but these essays are a great way to get a quick translation credit for your own portfolio for very little work.
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Step outside at this time of year and you’ll see people casting anxious glances at the sky.
It’s the pre-rainy season period, when the local micro-climate is a battleground between the Atlantic/Saharan weather systems in the north and west fighting a losing battle against the advancing summer storms from central-east Africa.
We’ve only had a handful of token showers so far, but that’s enough to make some roads temporarily impassable without 4WD vehicles, and going shopping in the local markets involves leaping from rocky outcrop to rocky outcrop to reach the sellers with their rickety stalls precariously balanced on tiny islets amid mud and pothole pools of water.
Push-push boys are busily carting wheelbarrow-loads of rocks and throwing them into the mini lakes to make stepping stones and more tiny islands, but of course displacing water with rocks just raises the level of the water overall. And splashes muddy water everywhere – notably over the legs and shoes of careless shoppers like me.
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Portuguese
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Translation in progress.
Translated by Fabiana Rodrigues Castelo Branco
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