A Rainy Week

Though it went by really fast, this week was another long and rainy one. It didn't rain every day, Wednesday morning was beautiful, and so was Friday afternoon, but the other days it rained solid and heavy all week and never really got bright. I had two tests to write on Friday; (chemistry in science, conflicts in the Red River Valley for socials) so I spent the better part of this week studying. I think I did all right on both. Not much to say about Monday; cold, dark, wet and rainy. Tuesday the french immersion and flex (flexible studies) grade 10s from my school got to go to Science World in Vancouver for the day. We met at the ferry at SIX-THIRTY AM!!!! and caught the seven over. It was fun, better than spending the day at school, but science world is a lot smaller than I remember it being, and once we'd done a loop through all the exhibits and gone to the OMNImax (I still prefer Imax) there wasn't a whole lot left to do. It's a good thing we went on Tuesday though, because Wednesday the rain and wind cancelled all evening sailings out of Vancouver, and I think Victoria and probably Salt Spring Island too. Not much excitment Wednesday or Thursday; cold, wet, rainy, much like Monday. Friday there was a light drizzle when I walked to school in the morning and afterschool was beautiful and sunny, and even though it's mid-November it was actually to warm for my jacket on the way home. Yesterday I... okay fine slept for most of the day, then Mom and I ran some errands, did some Christmas shopping and watched the Santa Clause parade go down Government St. It's much shorter than the Victoria Day parade in May, which is actually nice, because it was very cold, but it wasn't raining which was nice. There was so much rain this week that Duncan and Cowichan (about two hours or so north of Victoria) were completely flooded out. The Cowichan River and another river (name forgotten) burst their banks. It was all over the news, which is no surprise, there was a lot of damage done. That's way too close to home for comfort for me. I think they drained most of the water out of the city, but there's more rain to come and it'll take a long time to fix all the damage done. Here, it's not raining now, but it poured last night and was accompanied by a howling wind. It looks like it'll rain again later. But, that's why they call it the Wet West Coast isn't it?