Heat, humidity and tests

D has finished his end of term tests. He is not confident about the results so we will have to wait and see.
I'm going crazy with the weather. It's not just the heat,which is bad enough, but the humidity. Just breathing makes me drip with sweat. We should be getting a good thunderstorm with lots of cooling rain but so far nothing! One thing that I'm always amazed at is watching the OLs (Office Ladies) going off to work in their cute uniforms wearing stockings in this heat. I know the offices are air conditioned but going to work and coming home they must be very uncomfortable. I feel hot just seeing them!!

Rainy season???

So much for the rainy season. It just isn't happening in northern Kyushu.
We've had a few showers but no where near the down pours we should be getting.
The forecast is for storms from tomorrow but every night this week the weather forecast has said that it will rain and it hasn't. I hope it does tomorrow as the tempreture will drop, today was about 31C. Far to hot and that is just the begining.
D, who is in the first grade of junior high school started his end of term tests today. Poor boy, there is a lot of material to cover. It's all memorisation, about 8 subjects altogether.
Two more days and he is done. I wonder who is more stressed, him or me.

Rainy season

The yearly rainy season, tsuyu in Japanese, has well and truly arrived. This year we haven't had prolonged days of rain as yet but 3 days of rain is enough to drive one crazy. It's the humidity that really drives me up the wall. Everything feels damp, clothes hang outside or in the living room but don't really dry, they smell so I end up washing them again. The bathroom has to be scrubbed down every other day and the extractor fan run otherwise this awful mold starts to creep all over the place. Actually mold is a big problem at this time of year. Also food spoils very quickly, so I tend to put as much as possible into the fridge.
This rain is necessary for rice to grow and the years that we don't have enough rain means a rise in the price of rice and in the worst years, when there have been droughts, imported rice. So I look at the aijsai(hydrangea) in my yard and tell myself that it is only for a few weeks. But then the real heat starts, which is another post altogether.

I'm back

Well I never really went anywhere but my poor computer died on me.
I'm not sure what happened, either I got a virus or it could be the cup
of tea that my son spilt on it. Needless to say I've been without internet
accesss for a couple of weeks, talk about withdrawal. I never realised
how much I use the internet, not being able to read Japanese and not
having newspapers or magazines, the internet is my lifeline. Information
on almost any subject at our finger tips, isn't life great!!