So, still in Townsville, and even though I complained about it at the beginning, its not really that bad. Anyway, I know you might agree with everyone I have spoken to at home, that I am lucky I am getting such nice weather, it being up there in the 30's, before summer is even here, but I left Sydney in June and I have hardly seen rain since. All it has been doing is getting warmer, which don't get me wrong is a nice(ish) thing, but it is also getting so fricken humid that it is almost impossible to breath sometimes. It also makes it so uncomfortable to work in. I went to work for a few days on a farm, and I have to say I break a sweat more working in the hostel and in The Reject Shop than I did there. It is probably because I worked outside on the farm and I am inside for the other two, but wow...it is nasty.
Anyway, on Friday, I got dropped off after work at around 6.30, I got a shower and headed to Woolies to buy dinner. En route, I thought I was imagining things when I saw flashes out of the corner of my eye, but nope. Leaving Woolies, I was stalked up the street by a nice thunderstorm, which caught up with me just as I got home, and a huge fork of lightning danced around at the bottom of the road for a second...I quickly went inside, but then, the best thing happened...it rained!!! OMG, I was so excited. I didn't care about the thunder and lightning, I just had to go outside until I was drenched. I mean, come on...I come from a wet country, and I hadn't seen rain for nearly 3 months. I hate it when I am at home, but you don't know what you miss until you don't have it any more. I was getting a bit pissed off with all the perfect, happy, sunny days and the heat :P ... Rain, how I missed you! It also lifted the humidity in the air epically and I actually slept comfortably through the night! Rain is awesome! Then to top it all off, I woke this morning to a dull morning, thunder overhead and it was lashing! I didn't however go outside, but I did like rolling over in my bed to the sound of rain on the roof and going back to sleep :) ... I reckon my mum, sitting at home in the rain, is thinking I have gone a little crazy, hoping for rain and being excited when it got here, but I've realised that the weather at home is something we take for granted, and as I said, you don't know what you miss until you don't have it as much....
So, more rain please, ta...
1 comments:
I'll have you know that "working on a farm" is tough going and you didn't "break a sweat" because it was cooler back then and we weren't doing very much. Come down now and you'll dehydrate in an hour.
I do like the rain too but like the lightning show even more. In all of my 25 years in N.I, i seen fork lightning once (no joke) but in 4 months in Oz i see'd it like a bazillion times. Now all I need to do is get to the out-outback and see a full storm front cover the horizon.
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