Fireworks every night and things

Temperatures have continued to be noticeably better over the past week or more, though still a little warmer and more humid than we'd prefer. Most of the rest of the country is still pretty hot and humid.
Starting a week ago we heard extremely loud music and singing and talking coming toward our apartment building from some where. We thought it was some sort of festival. Those occur from time to time without any particular notice and they usually end after 2 or 3 days. However, this one was unusually loud. Some parts were spoken in English and we heard them say something about 9 days, which was a little scary. After awhile it got dark and quite a lot of fireworks were set off and we could see fairly well from our kitchen balcony, so that was rather enjoyable! Since then we have had quite a lot of fireworks going off EVERY night this whole past week! We learned that the field hockey stadium, which is about a half mile away has been having some sort of tournament and that is the reason for the loud music, speaking and fireworks. It has been fun to watch the fireworks, but we can do without the loud music and talking.
There have been more illnesses around. Renuka, who cleans for us was sick last Sunday and could not work Monday and then, Joseph, our driver came to work Saturday, but had to go to a doctor because he had a fever. He had a cold starting on Friday and probably should have gone to the doctor Saturday instead of coming to work. We had to scramble to get a replacement car and driver for the rest of Saturday, but we managed. One can do these things relatively cheaply here, but the reliability of drivers is not high and finding drivers who understand English reasonably well is sometimes difficult. So, we generally have to pay more to get reliable people who also speak English fairly well.
The mangoes appear to be pretty much gone from the tree outside and we don't see the green parakeets as much now. Because of the fireworks , were outside watching in the dark quite often this past week and were surprised by the large number of LARGE fruit bats around. We saw them eating mangoes too. These bats a really quite BIG- a bit scary looking too, but they seem harmless to people.
Over the course of about 2 weeks the old house that sits on the lot behind our apartment building disappeared. It was steadily demolished by workers with hammers and chisels until there is nothing left but a pile of bricks and rubble. Its too bad really, it was a cute old place, but that is the way things are going here- the land is becoming so valuable that the old places are replaced by big new places and the owner make a lot of money in the process. The apartment building where we live came about the same way. the owners had the land a small house on it and had the house and garden replaced by an apartment building.