15 dies, 16,14 remain

Water Bottles #16 and 14 reporting.  Red alert, red alert. water bottle #15 is missing and no one, not even Barbara, knows what happened.  As far as we can figure he was left at school, and this would not be the first time!  He was left there last week.  The reason we know this is because Barbara brought us to school when she could not find him, and lo and behold, when we entered the classroom, there he was, waiting for us.  Oh, you should have seen that day.  It was the first day of rain in 5 months and hereby commenced the official start of rainy season.  You see, Vietnam has 2 seasons: December through April is hot.  May through November is hot and rainy.  The Vietnamese describe the two seasons as hot, and hotter.  In California, where Barbara is from, it rains on and off throughout the year, but here in Vietnam there are two distinct seasons and is does not rain when it is not the rainy season.  She was surprised when the whole class stopped to stare outside at the falling rain.  When she asked the students what the big deal was, all they said was, "Cool weather coming."