Rain!/雨！

台南の安平地区辺りの写真だ。ちょっと空に凧が見える。

This is a photo from the Anping area of Tainan.  I was trying to get a photo of the kites that were in the sky at the time, but it's kind of hard to see them.

在安平我看到風箏。拍了照片看看，可是看不清楚。

台南に着いてから、雨が降った日は本当に片手で数えられるくらいしか無かった。しかも、その雨は僅かな霧雨に過ぎなかった。
と言う事で、今日は台南での生活の画期的な出来事が有った。初めて本物の雨が降った！まだ日がちゃんと昇っていない朝早く、ジャージャーと雨が沢山降った。量が多かったけど、あまり永く続かなかったので、スコールだったかもしれない。
まあ、これからね。台南にも日本と同じ梅雨が来る。（時期は沖縄と同じく、日本本土より一ヶ月早い。）冬の乾季はそろそろ終わるだろう。今までは全く雨の心配は無かったから便利だったけど、これから雨で濡れている、熱帯らしい台南の風景を楽しみにしている。（雨は不便だけど、綺麗だろう？）
I had a first experience today.  For the first time since I got to Tainan last September, it rained for real!  We've had some drizzles here and there (though few enough that I could probably count them all on one hand) but no real rain up until now.  From what I understand, this isn't so unusual since the winter monsoon winds come from the north and tend to dump all of their rain on Taipei (suckers) leaving southern Taiwan with nice, dry weather all winter.  The rain today was a bit of a wake up call though.  I need to start preparing for the heavy rain that is going to come in a month or so.  During the spring, we get the "Meiyu" rainy season that hits most of eastern Asia.  It hits Taiwan mostly in May and June, and I've been told that I can expect pretty much constant rain during that time.  That was my experience too in Nagasaki (though there it was more like June and July) but a Japanese friend emphasized to me how much it rains during the Meiyu season here, so I'm wondering if maybe Tainan is a whole 'nother level of Meiyu beyond what I'm familiar with from my time in Nagasaki.
我到了臺南後來，一次都沒下雨。嚴格來說，有的時候下了一點點雨，可是只是細雨。今天，我到了臺南以來第一次真的下了雨。早上我聽到很吵的聲音，就醒起來了。是雨的聲音！繼續得不久，可是量很多。
我聽說臺南的梅雨從5月開始，所以我快需要把精神準備好了。目前我一點都沒想雨的事情。沒有下雨很方便，可是我覺得下雨時候的風景很漂亮，所以我有一點期待梅雨。