Storm

We had the most awesome storm last week. It was so incredibly intense that there's honestly nothing I can compare it to in Canada - well Southern Ontario, anyway.

Naturally I left my window open, because it really couldn't work out any other way, could it? All my clean clothes that were hanging to dry were soaked and muddied because the screen was so dirty, there's water damage on the walls and around the windows, and the front door leaked enough water to flood a quarter of my room. The field was basically just a giant puddle by the time it was all finally finished.

I had a couple classes during the storm, which was actually a great educational experience for the kids: at the beginning of the semester I taught them about weather and "storm" was one of the words, but because we never had storms at the right time of day they only knew the English words through the photos I showed. So now they can say "it is stormy." Isn't that exciting?

It was so adorable though, because they were so terrified of the thunder and lightning, they'd jump in their chairs and their eyes would go super wide, and they'd run up and hug me for protection from the storm - I felt like Maria from The Sound of Music. Again. Except I didn't "sing" this time.