June 13th: Storms

June 13, Friday

2:00 pm



I just came back to the convent to get some rest, and made some pretty good timing. Right as I stepped into my room, the rain started suddenly, and it’s been a downpour ever since. The huge heavy windows flew open with a gust of storm wind, so I was just in time to close and lock them and stop our books and laptops from getting soaked. As I glanced out the window, I happened to look across the city to one of the small mountains in the distance (picture above), over which a dark cloud was hanging, and see a thin bolt of lightning strike the top.

So as of now, I’m sitting in my room updating as much as I can before I pass out from exhaustion. There are enormous raindrops pelting the window, and the pigeons don’t sound too happy – they’re all huddled in a small alcove of the roof right outside my bedroom window and making a lot of nervous cooing sounds. This storm came on pretty quickly for one so fierce.

And….. it just occurred to me that I do not own an umbrella.