you still want to tutor in the rain?

i'm supposed to be tutoring right now. three eighth graders come into the office on wednesday afternoons just before the bell rings and together we all hop on a song tau with a thousand other students (i'm a huge, tall, teacher-like sore thumb during these rides). then we go to one girl's townhouse, talk for two hours--yeah, it gets to be really long, but they're cool girls--and i go home.

today they came into the office as i was trying to print something for them. hold on, i motioned to them. then miew (you know, one of the other thai teachers) leaned over to me and goes, "nicki, are you sure you want to study today?" um, yes? why wouldn't i?

"because of the rain," miew said.
"oh, yeah, it's fine! mai pen rai. chop fon!" no big deal, kids. i like the rain. plus everything we do is indoors...your living room is inside a house...the songtau is covered...i don't really see the issue. the girls were incredulous but led me out of school to the songtau area anyway.

while we were waiting for the songtau, they were muttering to each other then one goes, "um, nicki, this week no studying." really? yes, really, they said.

we're really not doing tutoring after school today because it's raining outside. and it's not even raining anymore.