the rain in china...

this will be a quick one, maybe i'll have time for a longer post tomorrow...

this morning i was supposed to go to one of the teacher's house downtown to learn to make dumplings with her and her mother (!). then i was awoken at 6am to the sound of some rather loud thunder. i went back to sleep, woke up two hours later to more of the same loud thunder. it rained, and hailed, and winded for a good five hours... and the underpass next to my hotel flooded with a truck stalled in the middle of it, the water was up to its windshield. i spent a good amount of time this morning watching the city busses trying to go through it. i felt bad for the people on the busses, they must have been getting soaking wet. for the most part traffic wasn't moving, so i didn't get to go downtown.

BUT

i did walk to the grocery store at lunchtime when the rain and hail and lightnings had ceased... and i found peanut butter :)