My kids are gasping for rain. A big rainfall. A typhoon. Or a black rainstorm. Anything that would cancel school for the day. they'd be happiest with snow, but i am guessing that is not going to happen.
Typically, Hong Kong schools get one cancelled school day a year due to bad weather. There wasn't one last year and my children feel quite ripped off. I reckon there is one coming this year, and actually, I wouldn't mind if it was soon.
Why? Because IT STINKS IN HONG KONG. I don't mean the typical hong kong smell, i mean after weeks of no rain, there are areas of hong kong that stink of dog urine. the other day charles and i went for a walk and there was no romance…just choking as we tried not to tear up as that overpowering urine smell hit us in waves. there is dog pee coating the roads and stairs, and we need a nice brisk typhoon or horizontal rain to take care of it.
There was a slight rain on Saturday but it was nothing. Puddles barely lasted until midday and didn't help with the odours at all. Not impressed.
We are supposed to be entering into wet season. Where is the rain?
I know it would be no fun to have the kids cooped up here for the day, but I also know that accumulated layers of sour doggie wee laying in the hot sun stink. and continue stinking. so i think i would actually rather have the kids off for a day and in return get freshly clean sidewalks and stairways. and bushes. uck.
Bring it on.
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Love to all….
how funny, my son was asking if there was anything in SG like a black rain storm or typhoon that would merit a day off school! I had to disillusion him.
but school here seems way more fun than they had in HK anyway…
What, no romance? I thought our walk was VERY romantic if not a bit stinky. xx