Rain Day!!!

Yesterday morning was very interesting, but my story needs a little explanation first.

Usually when it rains here, it happens at night. The earliest that I've actually seen it start raining has been around 10 pm and it's always finished in a fairly short amount of time. (with the exception of the huge storm 3 weeks ago that went all night and left our soccer field underwater) So the weather is pretty predictable...hot all the time except when it rains, which is hardly ever.

So Saturday night it started raining about midnight, which wasn't anything out of the ordinary. But, it was still raining on Sunday morning, (well, not really raining but more like sprinkling) and people were freaking out! My supervisor's kids asked her if she thought they would cancel school (these are American kids!)...one of the girls on my team actually called around to get some opinions on whether she should cancel her language lesson with her tutor...my neighbor's daycare called to tell them that were going to be closed because it was raining and their national language tutor cancelled their lesson. Today, he told them that it was just too hard to be worrying about getting wet and walking around all the puddles, so he just stayed inside and went back to bed. People were driving like it was an ice storm in TX, 5 miles an hour but then almost running each other off the road to avoid even the smallest puddles. So rain in the day time is actually about as rare as snow in TX, I'm guessing. It was a lot of fun to just watch people...they all looked so confused!

What's really paradoxical about this is that it was just 3 weeks ago when we last got a heavy rain. (heavy for here, normal for home) There were puddles and water all over for at least a good week, but no one really thought anything of it then...life just went on as normal. But for some reason, the idea that the rain was actually falling out of the sky while the sun was out was enough to make people crazy.

Oh...and happy Labor Day. We don't actually celebrate that here, but I do fondly remember getting a day off from work for no reason...it was nice!