Power off

前晚约一點，一陣的大風后，電流就中断了。没有冷氣風扇，Steve熱得睡不着覺！一向可適應熱天的我，却不知覺，至到早晨醒來才曉得没電。啊…家里的用具都是靠電流，連冲杯熱咖啡也不能啦…如果中午還没來電，那一定得到餐廳用餐了…

Steve要去上班了…看到新鄰居和屋后的鄰居在交談。我們正后面的一家住着黑人女士，她隔僻的一家住着黑人家庭，是上个月才搬進來的新鄰居。我還没來美國前，我想像這里多数是白人，想不到却見到很多黑人住在St. Louis，我想我們的鄰居有一半是黑人。我們走到籬笆向他們打招呼，他們也走來和我們交談了一會…

Monday, early in the morning around 1am, the power was cut off, because of strong winds. It meant no air-conditioner or fan, so Steve couldn’t sleep well! There was no problem for me since I am adapted to hot weather. I didn’t know the power was off until I woke up that morning. Ahh….all of kitchen equipment are electric, which means I couldn’t have a hot coffee… We need to go out to a restaurant if we still don’t have power in the afternoon…

Steve was going to work…we saw our new neighbor talking with the neighbor whose house is behind ours. Behind our house is an older black lady’s house, and beside her house is the new neighbor, a black man and his family, who moved in last month. Before I came to the US, I thought most of the people here were white; it impressed me that I’ve seen a lot of black people in St. Louis, including about half of our neighbors. We walked to the fence and said hello, and talked about the storm...

14.8.07 4.17pm 晴熱