Hail to the Chief, he's the one we all say hail to
Well, the world didn't end yesterday. That's good news.
The President's brief visit apparently went off without a hitch, despite heavy protesting in Bogor and Jakarta. Yesterday around 4 p.m., when Air Force One was scheduled to land in Jakarta, it started pouring rain.
It does this nearly every day during the rainy season-days start out sunny but by 3, things are getting gloomy. Between 3 and 4 p.m., the skies open up and rain comes down in torrents, sometimes accompanied by blinding lightning and foundation-rattling thunder, sometimes not. Sometimes the rain lasts a few minutes, sometimes the storm goes on well into the night. Thunderstorms here are beyond anything I've ever seen at home, which is saying a lot since Nebraska gets some wicked storms.
We'd been wondering if we would see or hear the helicopters go overhead, since we're on the way from Jakarta to Bogor. Technically, I think we're a suburb of sorts to Bogor, but it depends on who you ask. Anyway, we didn't hear or see anything in the afternoon because the rain was so heavy. One of my younger students says his home is near the airport where Air Force One landed, and that he and his family saw the 747 fly overhead.
"It was BIG, ma'am. And very loud," he reported, adding, "I wish I had my own big plane."
I did hear helicopters flying overhead about an hour or so before Bush was scheduled to be leaving, so it could've been him but it's hard to say since we frequently hear helicopters here. Our little town has its own helipad, so some days we hear several. The guy who owns our school, the Wizard of Oz (or something like that) has a helicopter of his own but when he comes to visit--a rare phenomenon which happens approximately once every blue moon--he lands on the soccer field and has a chauffered SUV drive him the whole 20 meters from his chopper to the school.
Yeah. It's OK to roll your eyes. I do.
Some students asked if we got to meet the President since we're Americans.
"Yeah, he came over to watch Everybody Loves Raymond reruns last night," I told them.
Their eyes got big.
"I'm kidding," I said, and they started giggling.
"I hate Everybody Loves Raymond, we watched DVDs of Scrubs instead."
Now it's back to life as usual. How exciting.
The President's brief visit apparently went off without a hitch, despite heavy protesting in Bogor and Jakarta. Yesterday around 4 p.m., when Air Force One was scheduled to land in Jakarta, it started pouring rain.
It does this nearly every day during the rainy season-days start out sunny but by 3, things are getting gloomy. Between 3 and 4 p.m., the skies open up and rain comes down in torrents, sometimes accompanied by blinding lightning and foundation-rattling thunder, sometimes not. Sometimes the rain lasts a few minutes, sometimes the storm goes on well into the night. Thunderstorms here are beyond anything I've ever seen at home, which is saying a lot since Nebraska gets some wicked storms.
We'd been wondering if we would see or hear the helicopters go overhead, since we're on the way from Jakarta to Bogor. Technically, I think we're a suburb of sorts to Bogor, but it depends on who you ask. Anyway, we didn't hear or see anything in the afternoon because the rain was so heavy. One of my younger students says his home is near the airport where Air Force One landed, and that he and his family saw the 747 fly overhead.
"It was BIG, ma'am. And very loud," he reported, adding, "I wish I had my own big plane."
I did hear helicopters flying overhead about an hour or so before Bush was scheduled to be leaving, so it could've been him but it's hard to say since we frequently hear helicopters here. Our little town has its own helipad, so some days we hear several. The guy who owns our school, the Wizard of Oz (or something like that) has a helicopter of his own but when he comes to visit--a rare phenomenon which happens approximately once every blue moon--he lands on the soccer field and has a chauffered SUV drive him the whole 20 meters from his chopper to the school.
Yeah. It's OK to roll your eyes. I do.
Some students asked if we got to meet the President since we're Americans.
"Yeah, he came over to watch Everybody Loves Raymond reruns last night," I told them.
Their eyes got big.
"I'm kidding," I said, and they started giggling.
"I hate Everybody Loves Raymond, we watched DVDs of Scrubs instead."
Now it's back to life as usual. How exciting.
posted by Erin @ 10:52 PM
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