Rain, Rain, Rain

It's been a little bit since I wrote anything because only one thing has really happened lately: RAIN.  We were expecting this summer to be miserable just like last summer because of the heat but actually the heat has not been bad in July so far.  It was actually worse in June.  July has just brought a whole lot of rain and humidity.  For more than two weeks now we have had very heavy and hard monsoon rains more than once a day usually.  In fact, it had been raining so hard and for so long it started to rain inside our house last weekend!!  We had a couple nice steady drips of rain coming in from about our window sill.  Unsure of what to do, but worried it might flood our house while we slept, we showed our landlord who offered us a motel since there was nothing he could do until it dried out (which will still be a while).  We didn't figure we needed the motel but did make sure we picked up everything off the floor before going to bed.  That was a good thing because the next morning there was water covering almost the whole floor in our bedroom!  The next day we were able to get some caulking up along the window sill which took care of the worst of the leaking until it can be fixed permanently.  Now there is just a couple small leaks which don't come anywhere close to flooding our room!  We saw on the news that the river has risen quite a bit and even parts of some of the parks along the river have been flooded.  We are quite certain it was not nearly this rainy last year.  The rainy season can last until the end of August or even into September so we still have a ways to go to try and keep dry- outside and inside!

Last weekend we were able to dodge the rain pretty well and spent time with friends.  First we went to a housewarming party for a former Korean coworker who just got married and moved to a new house.  (We took the traditional housewarming gift of toilet paper!)  After that we went to see another former coworker and his family since they just had a baby last week. 

Eric leaves for his vacation in Thailand a week from tomorrow and the first semester at my school ends in less than a week.  It's hard to believe we are nearing the six month mark on our second year already!!