Why are there so many songs about rainbows?
Saturday was a dismal day. Rainy, gray, and with the first icy wind I've felt in Wellington yet. I had pulled my Scripps sweatshirt over a T-shirt thinking it would be enough against what looked to be a normal autumn day from my window, but the wind cut right through to my skin, and numbed my nose and lips as if it had been blowing across a frozen lake. I was sure to spend the least amount of time possible outside, hurrying back to my room and shutting the windows and door to keep as much of the heat I could generate within its walls.
Sitting on my computer, chatting with Mom as I often do around 5pm here, I heard shouts outside my window, followed by loud knocks. Pulling aside the curtains, I saw Ebony and Yazie running for the stairwell and Julia waving me outside. Through the window I could hear her muffled yells: "There's a huge rainbow outside! Come look!"
Quickly I typed off a note to my mom to tell her I would be right back and slipped on my shoes while Julia flailed her arms impatiently from outside my window. Jogging down the stairs as fast as we could, Julia with her camera in hand, we peeked through the windows as we passed each floor, trying to get a glimpse of this amazing rainbow. A chunk here and there covered mainly by the building across the street caught our eyes and we ran faster to hasten the moment that we would be able to see it in it's entirety.
Finally (30 seconds later) we burst out the front door, a small crowd already gathering in awe at the sight. Seeing that the building across the street still covered a good chunk of the left side, we ran across to the parking lot on the right of it, and there we got the best view we would get. And we were in awe.
And then we acted like dorks, because Julia started taking a video of it with her camera, and once we found out she was doing it, we immediately had to do dumb things because she was taping us. :0P
Now you can see the rainbow and us (me, Ebony and Yazie) doing dumb things too! Just make sure you have the Quicktime plug-in for whatever browser it is that you use and open the following link:
http://studentpages.scrippscollege.edu/~jloebs/image0004.MOV
Then be patient. It's about 11MB. :0)
After this we pretty much just went inside, me laughing at Julia as she finally noticed that she had run out barefoot and the cold wet ground was slightly painful.
When I went downstairs 15 minutes later and looked out the window the sky was growing dark and the rainbow was entirely gone. But the moral of the story is that, even when life gets dreary, 5 minutes of wonder can make things so much nicer. :0) Enjoy the moments. I'll remember that rainbow a lot longer than I remember being cold and wishing for sun.
Sitting on my computer, chatting with Mom as I often do around 5pm here, I heard shouts outside my window, followed by loud knocks. Pulling aside the curtains, I saw Ebony and Yazie running for the stairwell and Julia waving me outside. Through the window I could hear her muffled yells: "There's a huge rainbow outside! Come look!"
Quickly I typed off a note to my mom to tell her I would be right back and slipped on my shoes while Julia flailed her arms impatiently from outside my window. Jogging down the stairs as fast as we could, Julia with her camera in hand, we peeked through the windows as we passed each floor, trying to get a glimpse of this amazing rainbow. A chunk here and there covered mainly by the building across the street caught our eyes and we ran faster to hasten the moment that we would be able to see it in it's entirety.
Finally (30 seconds later) we burst out the front door, a small crowd already gathering in awe at the sight. Seeing that the building across the street still covered a good chunk of the left side, we ran across to the parking lot on the right of it, and there we got the best view we would get. And we were in awe.
And then we acted like dorks, because Julia started taking a video of it with her camera, and once we found out she was doing it, we immediately had to do dumb things because she was taping us. :0P
Now you can see the rainbow and us (me, Ebony and Yazie) doing dumb things too! Just make sure you have the Quicktime plug-in for whatever browser it is that you use and open the following link:
http://studentpages.scrippscollege.edu/~jloebs/image0004.MOV
Then be patient. It's about 11MB. :0)
After this we pretty much just went inside, me laughing at Julia as she finally noticed that she had run out barefoot and the cold wet ground was slightly painful.
When I went downstairs 15 minutes later and looked out the window the sky was growing dark and the rainbow was entirely gone. But the moral of the story is that, even when life gets dreary, 5 minutes of wonder can make things so much nicer. :0) Enjoy the moments. I'll remember that rainbow a lot longer than I remember being cold and wishing for sun.