Floods

Sorry for the pause. Let’s just say I learned what the Thais consider the rainy season.

 

We left the English department after 2 hrs of using the internet and saw these frogs all over campus. I thought it was just the residual effect of a small rainstorm since the rain didn’t seem so horrible when we were running to the building and when we were inside. But surprise surprise… the school was somewhat now flooded. My front lawn is covered in water. My porch to the house is covered. I hoped my house wasn’t flooded, but when I opened my front door, water gushed out. My living room and my kitchen were coated in dirt and water. The bathroom was disgusting- the floor is bout 5 inches below the kitchen floor so that whole thing was filled with water!

flooded front porch                                                                                        gross kitchen floor

Nu couldn’t come out to help us when I called because the streets in front of her house were flooded. I asked our neighbors who stood outside what we should do, and they told us to let it drain. Seriously? I asked our director who lives next door when he came to check on us if this was normal, and he simply said “yes.” Sigh… ohh rainy season…why

My attempt to clean the floor, and to help relieve the drain by pushing water out the door with the mop didn’t go so well. Mud was still everywhere. Hopefully the school can give us the necessary equipment to clean tomorrow, or to have the janitor help us out.  I really would have flipped a shit if the upstairs was a mess. Yah for the concept of an upstairs.

So it is 11:52 pm as I type this and I have class tm at 8:30 A.M. I cleaned as much as I could when I got home at 10 P.M. without Elana since she was still using the computer but it’s still a mess. I am dirt tired (pun intended), and I have no clue how to deal if this happens every time it pours.