Rain Day, but.....

Wisconsin has its snow day and Honduras has its... rain days. Due to the effects of Tropical Depression 16, which, yes, a week later, is still hanging around, the country has declared a "estado de emergencia" and school was canceled.

Some of Anah's students sent her e-cards (psst... because its her birthday) today and wondering if we had school canceled not because of the rain, but because the government made their teacher's b-day a national holiday! Cute!

Obviously the rain is pretty intense, but just to calm those who might be thinking of sending us ark supplies... everything is fine with us. One of the difficulties in living in a developing nation is that these sort of natural "troubles" hit the poor disproportionately. So while our habitations, our school, and students have little or no troubles its the rest of the country that has to deal with the real impacts of these rains.

Yeah... my roof came in, but that's nothing to a whole school disappearing, yeah.... the street in front of our house has a mini-lake, but our house isn't in the middle of a river, and yeah.... our students have giant SUVs so rain is easily forded unlike the rest of the countryside which travels by foot, bike, or donkey-cart. Its easy to see why a state of emergency was called.

While we enjoy the day off... more time to plan for the rest of the week and Anah's birthday party this weekend... I'm also thinking about those here who are really suffering.