If the torrential amounts of rain this time of year don't give away that it's rainy season, the increase of falling trees does. "Malomalo" trees aren't native to Papua New Guinea, but were brought here years ago as shade trees for growing coffee. They're mammoth trees which grow fast, making their root systems really weak. A good rain softens the ground just enough to make them rip out of the ground so we often hear huge cracks and thuds as they fall around campus and out in the village. Thankfully no one has gotten hurt by a falling tree, other than the day this one fell and one of our interns accidentally got a machete in his leg while trying to chop up the tree. Ouch. A hospital trip and a few stitches later and he was back in business with a good story to tell.
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