Today I was smote by the weather gods of Samoa for my mocking of the 'rain excuse' that some of my students have used as the reason that they are late for school. Apparently my jocular nature should not have stretched to mocking the rain as a lame excuse for holding up school because today as we were contemplating how to get to school in a complete and utter stormy downpour we enlighten on how serious the rain here can be. First our adventurousness failed and we asked our landlady Salu if she could give us a ride to school when she took her son because no amount of ponchos could keep us dry in that rain. Salu informed us that she had been listening to the radio and lo and behold - school was canceled!
The steady, heavy rain over the past few days had been adding up and last night's and this morning's extreme precipitation and high winds finally were too much and there was a lot of flooding on the road and worries of landslides.
Were we concerned? Nowhere near. Thanh and I thanked Salu for the information and as soon as we were out of sight in our house did a celebratory dance of no school and thanked the Mormon god of Samoa for the weather. I have learned my lesson and will not balk at the rain here again!
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