Typhoon

The typhoon is coming!
Very scary. We keep getting warnings over the loudspeakers that are all over the town. It has been raining heavily on and off for the past couple of days. I have never seen such heavy rain, it is truly amazing the drops must be bigger or something because while it is raining the ground is flooded about 5cm deep and it disappears as soon as it stops. The boats are cancelled from tomorrow and if it gets bad enough the kids will be sent home from school (not the teachers though) so we will see how my first days go!

There was a typhoon while I was in Tokyo and it didn't seem like anything too exciting... rain and wind, just a Wellington day... but here on the island things are a bit different. We are such a small land mass or something that the wind is truly incredible and changes fast. Also last year the electricity was shut off during most typhoons, once for three whole days!
There was a fireworks display in Goka on Saturday night (just as the wind and rain arrived) and I went with someone from the office and their family. We tried huddling at the hot-springs with everybody else and then gave up and went back to their warm dry garage for BBQ and watched the fireworks from there. Very pleasant.

Yesterday I was invited out for lunch and dinner! Lunch was a BBQ huddled on a front porch getting a we back but very tasty nonetheless and my hosts gave me a bag of rice they grew themselves when I headed home.

For dinner I was treated to big purply boiled squid... it was better than I thought it would be the tentacles were not as tentacly as they looked and I became a master at squeezing off the eyes with my chopsticks. We had to go home early before the weather got worse and driving was too dangerous though.