“Augustus, the chocolate must never be touched by human hands!”

It has rained here on and off the past few days. Rain is sort of a curse here in this city because there is no place for it to run off. We have sewers in some places but not in many residential neighborhoods. It’s inconceivably worse for those people who live in the slums.

There are a couple places near our house where a pond develops and normally stays for at least 6 weeks after the rain. After about a week the water develops into a nice creamy lather that looks like a chocolate river, and the smell is nasty. It’s only a matter of time before we get a plague of flies and mosquitoes.