Typhoon Lagoon..

We had our first Typhoon today! It was really neat. "Itty bitty sideways sting-ing rain," Forrest Gump style. I wish I would have taken a picture. We literally had a moat around our house. I think I'm going to petition the school for a drawbridge.

Woke up to furious pounding on the front door this morning. Our neighbor (who just happens to be the lower school principal!) wanted to let us know that the Upper School Principal (the guy we saw Dark Knight with) was sending his wife to come pick us up on account of the crazy rain. Everyone here is like that, doing things to help us..offering to find us house help, a car, take us shopping, etc. The power was out for ~2 hours or so due to the storm.. We canceled our Open House, and we're just going to start school on Thursday without an open house.. so the first time I'll meet my students is Thursday morning. I found out I've got 20 students, which is more than I expected, but still a good class size as far as that goes. Back home they were running anywhere from 20-30, so 20 isn't bad. I've heard they're really sweet kids.

I filled out an internet application today for wireless, but it'll definitely be over a week before we get any results.. the company is in Oolangapo, so today Ms. Edna (the matriarch around Brent Subic) helped us fill out the forms, and hopefully in a couple of days the drivers will take it to Oolangapo. Then we'll wait for the internet company to run a credit check, and THEN we wait for them to show up for installation. Things take awhile around here, which is fine, just something to adjust to.

Keep those comments and emails coming and we'll keep the posts coming. More pictures soon, we promise.

-Jordon and Melissa