after the storm

The typhoon has passed. It wasn't much of anything, just some rain and winds. Nothing big, but in my opinion, awful to get around in. I had a busy school day yesterday taking a tram, train, and taxi to get to one of my "out there" schools.

I am always so amazed by how accustomed Japanese people are to functioning in the rain. Bicycling around, hopping on and off the trains, opening and closing umbrellas, wrapping them up on the way in and out. I am not. My feet were soaked by the end of the day, and I also had wet spots all over my pants from where I let my wet umbrella rub up against me while I was trying to wrap it up to take on the tram and then train. I'm from California~ Come on, we never get rain!

Around dinner time yesterday, we knew that the storm was completely done because of the unusual colored light that filled the sky. This always seems to happen after the storm. And a rainbow!