Raindrops keep falling on my head

Yesterday I went into town to Crown Bakery. It is very popular with people from the Mercy Ship since it is Western-style and it has good food. I've only been in Africa for about three weeks but I am already used to everything being run on 'Africa Time' so I was shocked when we received our food in less than a half hour after we ordered it!
On the way back we walked through the fabric market and it started to pour down rain. The market was technically on a street but it was so crowded with stalls that there was only a narrow, dirt alley to walk through that quickly turned into a small river. Occasionally there were some stones sticking up that you could walk on, but most of the time to had to trudge through the garbage-filled flow. We didn't realize that the street was a dead-end so then we had to walk back up to the main street.

We took a detour off the street through a patch of land owned by a church that was very nice. It seems that any spot of land that something can grown on has a bit of corn planted on it. I've seen corn growing right next to the roads out of town. The church yard had corn and potatoes growing on it along with some goats and chickens hanging out. And some huge spiders were hanging out in the trees, but they were off to the side and not overhead so I didn't have to worry about them trying to land on my head.
There were a couple of ruined buildings that I couldn't tell exactly what they used to be. One was mostly overgrown while another one was graffitied but otherwise untouched. Neither one seemed to be large enough to be an actual church.

We had a fire drill today as we do every other Thursday. I am a cabin checker so when I hear the alarm go off I have to walk to the aft of the ship (my cabin is forward) and grab a little yellow card off its hook. The card has the room numbers that I'm supposed to check on then write down if there is anyone inside or if the cabin was locked. I have to bang on the door and announce myself then walk inside and look around the cabins to see if there is anyone injured inside. If some is inside that isn't injured I only have to tell them to get to the emergency station on the docks. After I check my cabins I go to the stairs where I tell someone with a clipboard with all of the cabins in thier zone if I found anyone in the cabins. Then I have to walk outside to the dock and check in so they know I got off the ship and they won't have to look for me. And finally we have to hang around on the dock until every person who is supposed to be off ship is accounted for (the people who are on-duty in the hospital are exempt from the fire drill). This often takes a long, long time. We were lucky today as there was only one person missing and it didn't rain on us like last time we had a drill so we were outside for only about fifteen minuets. Almost as soon as we all got inside a thunderstorm started so I'm glad to be out of that! Other people on the ship keep telling me that the rainy season is supposed to be ending soon but so far we've had a storm almost everyday.