It's actually raining this morning. Not the thick air mist kind of rain but the drops you can hear falling on the trees. It'll be a wet ride into school today but maybe the air will be a bit cleaner than it has been. Taiwan would like to blame China for the smog that hovers over Kaohsiung and I'm sure that's a factor but this city produces plenty of its own pollution and it's been bad recently. When we flew back from Hualien Cierra used the word horrifying to describe the blanket of smog she could see from the air that lay across the western half of the island. Horrifying is right.

We fly back for Christmas in less than ten days and I'm really looking forward to breathing some clean air.