Cold

Tropical fruit in winter

 It's the feast of the Holy Innocents today. And it's alot colder even though it's not raining, the sun is shining and the weather forecast says 9 degrees (but feels like 6). It was so cold last night many of us couldn't sleep and whoever had heaters had them on all night. Those who didn't hid under piles of blankets. Tomorrow the forecast is 4 degrees ... so that's alot colder than today. Our central heating has broken down so that's why we're so cold at night. And it's not likely to be repaired in a hurry ... given the local pace of work.

Strangely in the streets lots of tropical fruit are on sale despite the cold. There's pineapples, gingers, bananas and custard apples which are probably grown in the warm Jordan valley area. But there's also strawberries and cherries which should only fruit in March and April. Very strange.

This morning we went to exchange Christmas greetings with the Custos as is customary. Then another student who just had an operation, asked me to walk with him to another convent to greet a group of nuns. It's one km away so both of us slowly walked as we're both recovering from operations. Because we both had to be slow, the whole journey there and back took us almost 3 hours. That's 3 kms in all. One good thing was we had a little exercise and there was lots of fresh air in the park when we crossed it.

Well tomorrow is another day and we'll see how we'll cope with the cold.