Email sent at 9:00 pm on Tuesday night:
To all Concordia parents,
School is close tomorrow, Wednesday 9/1/2010 by the order of City of Shanghai due to typhoon.
Best Regards,
Head of School
Typhoon!!!!! Yes its name is Kompasu and the city was partially shut down today. Which means the labor workers did not have to come to work today and China public schools were supposed to start today, but didn't. Of course today was the day I rescheduled my look around town with the Orientations consultants. You know the one that was disrupted last week when AC had a fever. He is doing much better by the way, but there have may have been more cases of the flu at school since. I am still on the fence. He looked to good to be that sick, plus thankfully no one else at home got that sick. ER has been a little punky, but no fever.
Sorry, I digressed. Back to the weather. Not only did the school email me, my phone company text me, JP's teacher called me personally. Talk about being connected, it was impressive. Given school was closed, I thought for sure we were going to have to batten down the hatches an hunker in. But no, we had beautiful clear blue skies, a rarity in Shanghai as it is usually pretty hazy, until noon. Then we had some thunder storms, which were impressive but we didn't have the winds that were expected. I don't think it was necessary to keep the kids home from school, but better safe than sorry.
The hardest part about all of this is that it is not like I can watch the local weather to know what is coming and how concerned I should be. Yes I can go online, but me reading the Doppler radar is not the same as a local weatherman that you trust and are used to watching. Again, here in Shanghai you just learn to roll with everything. So we spent the afternoon at the gym in the kiddie playland. I am still waiting to get into a routine, but there seems to always be something going on.
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