Articles tagged with: umbrella
An ESL Class – And I Survived
Thursday January 3, 2012
10:30 a.m. at the 7-11 on Chang-An Road
Another rainy and gloomy day here in Taipei. The rain, at least, isn’t pouring down. It’s barely even making the effort to be rain. It’s just trickling a bit here and there. I didn’t even bother to break out an umbrella for the walk from my apartment to here. I was the only one walking …
Beethoven’s Ninth and Unlucky Seat Double 13
An Unlucky Day Begins
Days, as everyone knows, have a certain flow to them. When little things go wrong from the beginning, they tend to go wrong day all long. That’s what happened to me on Friday. Luckily, I’m not talking about big things. These are just the little things that make up a normal day. Still, life generally is made up of little things. And …
Heavy Taipei Rain and WordPress Post Formats
I began this day saying that it was raining and had been for five days. It’s about 10 hours later now, and it is still raining. When I left work to get on my scooter and drive home, the rain was coming down in sheets. Someone told me there was a heavy-rain advisory in effect, and I didn’t doubt it. This was heavy rain. I …