Last Wednesday (August 15, 2007), Philippines experienced the first strike of the super typhoon, Egay. It really is strange how PAG-ASA gets to formulate the names of the typhoons. Anyway, I woke up 3 in the morning because I felt a shake and so I thought there was already an earthquake. I checked what might have caused the tremble, and when I looked out of my window it was already raining hard with thunder and lightning. I assumed that classes will be suspended immediately. However, by 5 am the rain already stopped. When I left home, it was as if there will be no rain storm. Unfortunately, on my way to school, the rain began to pour so hard just when I was already near the bus stop. There was traffic right away, and we even saw a lightning struck near our bus. I got stranded and no taxi would dare to take a passenger because the flood was already ankle-high. Argh! It was so frustrating. I had to pay the pedicab driver from CCP to Torre Lorenzo in Taft the same amount that I pay a van from Cavite to Vito Cruz. Well, it was quite fair because the driver was soaking wet. When I was about to cross the street I noticed that all of the traffic lights were yellow and there was no traffic enforcer. I got to school with wet shoes and pants. I had to dry up barefoot in the classroom haha! Almost everyone in our class of 6 people was late. Except Madel who is always lucky. Whenever she’s absent, it’s either the professor will be later or absent or there will be no class. Well we weren’t able to start our first subject because there was a late announcement of class suspension. We decided to go home right away to avoid the possibility of being stranded in school. We rode a pedicab again back to LRT but the flood even reached our school already. The traffic made a supposedly 5-min walk/travel from our school to the train station to about 20-min. We even had a funny experience inside the pedicab. The flood even reached inside the pedicab making our feet and pants wet again. There was even a cockroach that freaked out my classmate Kat, actually all three of us (Kat, Aira and I) which made the driver laugh. We even had pictures taken haha. By the time we reached the bus terminal to Nasugbu, Batangas (which takes the Cavite route) there was only a little rain shower and when we reached Cavite, there was no rain. My parents were even surprised when I shared them my experience because they said it didn’t even rain in Cavite since I left home. Argh! I immediately took a shower because I was kind of paranoid that I may have leptospirosis (a disease from a pee of a street rat). Obviously, we didn’t have our accounting class (every Wednesday and Friday) again like last week because of a thunder storm named Dodong. We are so behind in most of our subjects. I’m still paranoid about our Accounting midterm which is originally scheduled next Wednesday. We’re still not sure whether the exam will still push through on that day, but I’ll be so dead if it is so. It is still raining in Philippines and it is said that by Saturday, the storm will be in the boundary of Taiwan. Honestly, though this may sound unbelievable, I really hope there will be no suspension of class anymore, especially on our Accounting dates.