Monsoon!!

So finally! Here is the big monsoon! Almost every single day it has been raining, often more than once. As this has cooled the temperature dramatically, I do not care in the least about the wetness! However some days the insane humidity does get to me.
We were watching Indian Idol yesterday, and my roommate asked me, "How is her hair so smooth and shiny?? They don't have humidity there??"

The three of us roommates got ourselves niced up to go out for my going away dinner with some friends. We got outside and it just started raining. And when it starts raining, it can be hard to find an autorickshaw. All the autowalas suddenly have an attitude, I suppose knowing that now the whole city is depending on them, they refuse to take anyone anywhere, and when they do, they increase the fare. We finally found one that night, but not before the effort of fixing our hair and all was for naught.

Part of the problem is that there is no stormwater drainage system, so low points just flood with nowhere to drain. Traffic gets completely jammed as everyone is in a hurry to get where they are going, and no one will give way to each other. That night we sat at an intersection for 10 minutes at least because the vehicles coming from either direction just kept moving forward without letting the others pass. Finally no one could move at all. All the poor people on motorcyles and scooters were completely drenched. Finally our heroes, the autowalas, hopped out and started directing traffic and got things moving. Even after this trouble, we still were the first to arrive at the restaurant.

In this humidity, the clothes that dried on our balcony in a day, now take days to dry, so we have to bring them inside under the fan.