November 30, 2001

Water, water everywhere…

Today it rained heavily. "Winter" and "rain" are the same word in Arabic, and living here makes it clear why. One unusual thing about the rain in winter is that while it is raining (and just before and after), the weather gets noticeably warmer - the opposite of Chicago's summer rains. Unfortunately, though, our landlord - who began his renovation plan to add an extra floor a little late - has yet to put a roof over the stairwell. The result is that it is now raining harder inside than outside - fortunately, not in our apartment - just in the stairwell. We keep waiting for Noah to show up.