A Rainy Monday!

I, Jean, am rather accustomed to rain, having grown up near Seattle, WA.  But rain in Asia can come down harder and quickly cover streets and driveways.  Monday, after we got to the college, it started to rain.  My one photo doesn't really do it justice.  I snapped this from the windows just outside the office we share with Lilian.  It views out toward the school track.  Anyway, at the end of Monday, we had to walk "home" to the hotel in the rain. The tile floors inside the campus hallways can be rather dangerous when they get wet.  And the streets we travel along, especially the rather narrow lane connecting the 2 busier streets has a fair amount of traffic with truck deliveries, people on their scooters, and some impatient car drivers...and the rain narrows the drier spots I prefer to walk on.  But the grandaddy shock for me was the entry to our hotel.  It was flooded...and it looked impossible to get to the front doors without wading in water--soaking my tennis shoes...the shoes I wear every day!  I was not a happy camper thinking about smelly, wet shoes that might take a while to dry for our walk to campus the next day.  I had to work through holding onto a grumpy attitude or letting go of it, and then shifting to think of so many things to be thankful for.  My attitude was really a choice.  And, the next morning, though my shoes were still damp, the water had receded and we had a fairly dry path to walk to the campus!!!  True confession.