The rain has been pelting Apia in the last few days signaling the end of the cool/dry season and the return of the wet/hot season in Samoa. Yachts are slowly leaving Apia Harbor for safer anchorages around the Pacific. A couple of centipedes have decided, quite unwisely, to use my flat as a thoroughfare. They were Mortein'ed to death mericlessly. Pretty soon rivers will fill up again, blood sucking skeeters will be flittering around and the oppresive heat will be making everyone say, vevela tele le aso or "the day is incredibly hot."