Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Rain, Rain go away

¡Ay chi chi! Dios mio has it been raining! Seriously, it has not stopped raining since Sunday night...and now I am understanding what it truly feels like to live in the rainforest. It started raining Sunday morning and it literally hasn´t stopped. Right now the clouds seem to have stopped dumping on us, but this happened yesterday and resumed raining all through the night.

It´s funny because I always thought people were really used to the rain here. Normally, when the sky is dark and it starts to ¨spit¨ people just carry on as if nothing happened. However, it now seems that it´s a great excuse. Today I was with FODI and we´re doing charlas this week on Registering your kids....like getting them formally registered with the state and a cedula number and everything. It´s a pretty important topic as a lot of FODI kids still aren´t inscritos or registered and a handful haven´t even been named yet. Which is funny because I think in the US the first thing people do is think of names for their kids....sort of like my 15-year-old sister who already has her 4 kids´names, all quite original might I add (kinda like Sarah Palin´s offspring...) ANYWAY, totally off topic but we went to give this charla and none of the moms were there. We brought snicky snacks and everything! Why didn´t they come?

Well, it´s raining.

Duh....

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

maybe they thought they would melt? haha i LOVE your stories! I went shopping w/ my mom yesterday and got to see the pics from your family's trip... very cool and van-fam-ish! miss you lots, glad to see you're still having a blast over there! :) Love you!

Anonymous said...

This so funny. Gracie and I were just discussing her children's names two minutes ago!Stay dry!
Mammmmmaaa

Anonymous said...

Two things:
1) I don't know much about forecasting SA weather, but it's clear that with high pressure anchored off the Uruguay coast and also due west of Chile that you're going to have tremendous amounts of southerly flow (winds rotate counter-clockwise around highs in the southern hemisphere) and trees everywhere for evapotranspiration...it's going to rain a lot down there.

2) Good shot at Sarah Palin. You wish you had glasses like her.

Anonymous said...

Corrie-
It's raining here too! Well yesterday it snowed for the first time this winter! YAY! 2 snow days with no school! Unfortunately it probably doesn't snow there so no snow days for you. Tear tear. But I bet you're having more fun than I am prima!

Love, love, love, love, love,
Anna