Tweedledee and Tweedledum

Rain, rain, stay all day...

If you've read my mom's blog you know that we got off school today because of rain. We get out of school for everything. Snow, no snow, too cold, too hot, blocked parking lot, rain, if the superintendant is having a bad hair day, or even if they don't have enough subs. We get out a lot. Today when we woke up it was raining hard. Immediately, every student in the county's mind went to the same question "Is school cancelled yet?" There's a creek behind our school, and if the creek gets over the bridge, we can't have school. We went to seminary; when we came back it was still raining. In the parking lot at school, there was an alarminly small number of cars there. Today was Senior Skip Day. For those of you who don't know, this is a day when seniors skip. It is not sanctioned by the school. They announced it several times. Regardless, three pages of seniors were absent. We only had half our class in physics. In trig, we had mostly everyone. Our teacher was aware of the distraction, in the form of rain, that held the attention of the class. She told us to just accept that they would not cancel school and to just pay attention and learn our trig equations. Someone asked if they had ever made the student body stay after classes ended because they couldn't get out because of flooding. She laughed and said that they couldn't keep her, she was leaving. The interstate would have to close to keep her from getting home. Throughout the class, students that parking in the far back lot were called to move their cars. This has happened in years past. The bridge floods and no one can get out. Luckily, the seniors were gone, leaving their parking spots. Last year when this happened, some were not so lucky. They had to move their cars to the elementary school lot and ride a bus back to school. One kid's car actually started to float away. They didn't cancel school for that incident. Fifteen minutes before the end of second block, we were all starting to lose hope. They have to announce early dismissals before lunch. Then it came, the much anticipated announcement: Three hour early dismissal! Our trig teacher apologized for dashing our hopes. She was as excited as the rest of us. We went to lunch, and at the end of first lunch, the assistant principal announced that those who had cars could go ahead and leave. I found Nick, Sarah, and the two boys we take home and we were out of there. My feet did get wet though. I had to walk through three inches of water to get to the car. But, oh, it was worth it!