The Great Flood...

So, I started school yesterday. I am an assistant for year 4 and 5 at the international school here (4th and 5th grade). It's a really neat school because the children are from all over the world. I love to hear the different accents from them :-) For most of them English is their 2nd, 3rd, maybe even 4th or more language. Plus they learn Arabic at our school. Today, just as school was getting out, it started raining. I don't mean just a drizzle, because when it rains here it pours! The whole playground was completely flooded (I will put up pictures of it when I can get them from someone). Of course the kids are going nuts and all choas has broken out. So we got them inside while we are swapping out buckets from the water pouring into the classrooms. It was fun (and I'm not being sarcastic there). Then we went to walk home. Of course the streets are flooded, cars splashing water and gunk (they think it's funny to splash hiwajdas-foreigners- here), and some cars are stuck. People were laughing at us as we slip on the mud and dodge splashes, though some people were helpful. It was nice to get home. But then I remembered that we had done laundry last night, which is a process in itself, so some of the clothes were still hanging up on the roof. Most of them were ok after the storm, but some had been strown across the roof. So I rewashed them by hand and hung them, as it started to rain again, HA :-) We all smile and laugh though and say, "Only in K-town." All in all it was a good, and eventful, day. Until later...