This last week-end was actually quite exciting, especially the weather. I think they called it a super typhoon. I was stuck inside most of the time, but on Sunday I went to the main station to wait with a couple sisters for someone they were waiting for. They had invited someone to our English meeting and told him to meet them there, but the meeting was canceled because of the typhoon. So they wanted to make sure someone was there to meet him.

Afterward I went to check out the computer market, known as the "Digital Plaza." Most of the shops where open but I was starting to notice pieces of trees lying on the sidewalk, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, umbrellas were becoming more and more useless, mine was usually inside out.

At one point, after half an hour or so of browsing in the wind I contemplated crossing the street to the 6 story computer mall. But I hadn't finished looking around at the street shops either. I stood there for awhile not really sure if I wanted to get even wetter crossing the street. Then I kinda spaced out for a minute. Then a fifty foot long piece of metal crashed down right in the middle of the cross walk. It had come down from some part of a building or something, it was twisted into a "Z" shape. Nobody else was in the cross walk, and no cars, eventually a driver or two dragged it out of the middle of the street. But you could say, due to my slowness I narrowly dodged debris crashing down on me. OK not really that narrowly, but it could have happened.

Needless to say my encounter made me think of something a comedian once said "It's not *that* the wind is blowin, it's *what* the wind is blowin." I checked one more store near-by, and decided to end my typhoon excursion and head back to my apartment where at least I was protected by walls.

It's actually quite amazing how many people are out shopping and doing business during the middle of a typhoon. I'm not sure "doing it like the locals do it" is such a good idea here during a typhoon. Although I'm sure we didn't get the worst of it here, they've probably seen much worse.