Typhoon Morakot Day 3

Today is August 8th, this means it is father's day today in Taiwan. Alan has to go to his art, piano and calligraphy classes, so I had to drop him to Tainan city. We left ealy in the morning, because his first class will be at 10:00 A.M. we had to hurry up.

When we arrived to Tainan city, everything seems fine. Alan had his art class. After that, we went for lunch at RT Mart. Over there, we could park the car on the underground, we did not need to worry about bring umbrella or getting wet.

After lunch, we left RT Mart. The wind is getting stronger also it is raining so hard, it is like down pour.

Alan's piano was canced, also his calligraphy class is also canced. We just knew that piano class is canced. We went to Shin-Kung Mitsukoshi department store to buy a present for David. Alan and I parked far away from the store, we both got very wet.

When we arrived over there, we had only two hours to look around what to buy for David. We went to dry first and after that Alan went to the 6th floor to play. After playing, we went to look around for a present.

Alan and I did not know what to buy. Fist we went to see the wallet for men, after that we went to see T-Shirt and finally, we decided to buy a motorcycle for David. He always want a motorcycle 1,000 CC. We do not have money to buy a real one, we went to buy him the model one.

It was really hard to find, finally we asked so many people we found already what we wanted. After we bought a present it is time for us to see a doctor.

After a big dinner for father's day celebration, we went home. On the way home, all the streets in Tainan city and county are like flood. We had to drive through the streets, I was so scared. David drove Nissan sentra and I was driving my CRV. CRV is much higher than Nissan, so I could pass. I was worry about David's car.

I have never seen a real picture in my mind before. This is really much water for me on the streets. Thanks God that my new house is not like this. Also the house we were living is not like that.

Everything can happen with mother nature. I really have a real experience. So does Alan, when we grows up, he will tell his story to his children.

Typhoon Morakot

Today I had a typhoon vacation, I could stay home and take a little rest. I could see from my bedroom window, the wind and the rain were getting stonger. The trees closer to my house were almost falling down. A lot of people felt bored at home, they wanted to go out to the department stores or cinemas. Nobody could hold an umbrella.

Alan and I stayed home, David had to go to work today. It is all raining and windy, it is all dangerous. Staying home and watch a movie is better than going outside in a big wind.

Mother Nature Disaster

On Thursday evening at Alan's birthday dinner, news reporters anounced and alerted us to be careful with this coming typhoon. The name of typhoon is Morakot. Nobody expected that this typhoon would be strong.

On the way home, it started raining with little wind. We all said that tomorrow we had to go to work. Later in the evening, news reporter anounced that we will have typhoon vacation tomorrow. I was so tired in the evening, I went to sleep right away. Alan told me, "Mom, you can take a big rest tomorrow, you do not have to go to school." I heard him saying that, I was so happy but at the same time, I was so tired.

In the midnight, the wind and the rain were getting were stronger and stronger.

Tug of the War

This is the Taiwanese group who competed in the World Games, 2009. The Tug of the War were great and they made all of their efforts on the game. They won gold medal. I am very rpoud of them, it is great to see how people made all of their efforts in this competition.