This Just In: Bangkok Flood Season In Full Swing

So You Know: If you look up "my first bangkok flood" on youtube.com the first video that comes up is mine from today :) It should be posted by 'crocodilian77'  Enjoy!

My day ended amazingly today. My kids in my high-school conversation class were wonderful. They listened and actually worked hard on their assignment! I was so proud. I heard the pitter patter of the raindrops on the metal awning outside while I was teaching. I even thanked God for the refreshing rain during prayer before class. I checked my EP 5 room on my way out after school to see if the maid had locked it. If she hadn't I was going to work on my bulletin boards. She had - oh well. I have the rest of the week. Off I went down the wet steps to the first floor. 

As my trendy crocs hit the concrete ground and my eyes scanned the basketball/soccer area, something just didn't seem right. Like any other day that it rained, everything was

 wet. But today things were

a bit wetter than usual.

 It wasn't until I got closer that I reali

zed we had a lake over our white top! I laughed rather loudly and immediately pul

led out my camera. This drew a bit of attention: 6 ft. tall white girl pulling our her Canon to capture this rather

mundane event. I giggled in excitement. Never had I seen this much water from just 2 hours of raining. Kids were trudging through the water like it was nothing. Others took advantage by splashing and kicking the water on their friends. 

It still hadn't hit me. 

I put my camera away, and pulled my umbrella out for my short trip home. I stepped down the stairs and turned right to go out the gate of the school. Hmmmmm......"That's a lot of water", I thought. It was covering the 

entire parking lot. "There must be a way around it", I thought. HA! I 

looked around for a familiar face(one that knows english) and found my student, Now(that's his name). I asked him how I was supposed to get home. He said, "Teacher, you walk." With that I understood that I would indeed be trudging through this Amazon water most definitely full of creatures only the mind can fathom. I stepped hesitantly out the gate, and my new friend Ice(that's her name too) 

came to my rescue. I had seen her earlier waiting for a cab to whisk her away from this madness. Guess she got tired of waiting. She was with a student and they started walking away. I called out "Wait for me!" It was now or never. I would have to conquer this black, murky water at some point. Although may I add that she did remember to tell me to watch out for Cobras before I stepped in. "WhAt!!!???", I cried. "I didn't know they were in this area." She said that no, they usually weren't in this area, but that the flood waters sometimes washed them out of their hiding places and homes. Oh, this was just great. 

Splash. My right foot disappeared into the black abyss. Splash. There went my left. Ha! "This is an adventure", I thought. I was having fun! I laughed out loud. They turned around to see what was so funny. I giggled and said, "This is awesome!" Ice and the student found it amusing that I was so easily entertained. Off we went. We made it out to the street only to find that it was the same conditions out there too. We trudged on, like warriors. Okay, that's a little much, but it was exciting, okay? I remembered to pull out my camera! Thank goodness! My Mom would kill me if I didn't capture this moment! Ice and our student waited for me to get situated again. I began snapping more shots of the motorcycles' wheels covered halfway up by water! All of these people just seemed so nonchalant about it! Craziness....Anyway, I thought of filming a video to get the full effect. So I got one, and I will look and see after I'm done writing if there's a way to upload it on my Blog Page. We'll see.....SOOOO, after a few more steps she then told me about how scorpions, too, can be washed into the flood waters. OK, so mental note, watch for COBRAS and SCORPIONS the next time it floods. Mkay. Well then. We finally made it to the front door of my apartment building by jumping over a dip in the street that was really deep. I thanked Ice and our student so much for letting me brave this natural disaster with them. They laughed. Wow, so thanks, God, for providing me an 

amazing walk home today.