Control
There are things I can’t control:
- How hot (and humid) it is--regularly 30 C = mid-80's F with 70% humidity
- That our apartment is on the 4th floor apartment with no barrier between our ceiling and the roof and does not have cross-ventilation. And that is baked every sunny day from 1:00-sundown (around 6:45 PM).
- The weather—when the forecast is for cool, rainy weather one day and the next it is changed to hot, humid weather and the rain never comes
- That our neighbor after over a month of telling him that his water tank is leaking into our bathroom and destroying our wall, still hasn’t fixed it

There are things I can control
- Where I sit in our apartment in the heat—so far I’ve discovered sitting in the tub is the coolest spot
- What we cook in the hot weather
- How many cold showers I take a day
- How I react to disappointing weather predictions
- How I react to the constant leak in our bathroom

Things I can be thankful for
- Ceiling fans and floor fans
- Adequate water
- That it usually cools down overnight
- That though the water consistently leaks, it’s not flooding the bathroom
- That our bathroom is much cooler than the rest of our apartment