| 19A | 20C | 21C | 22D | 23C | 24A | 25B |
| 26D | 27B | 28C | 29D | 30D |
Mom: The school sent this. Read it before you go tomorrow.
| SUN HILL SCHOOL · Typhoon Notice |
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| Classes on as usual Thursday |
| Decision for Friday at 20:00 Thursday |
| Check the school page, not the radio, for all information |
| If you are already at school, stay inside |
Wei: So Thursday is as usual? I have a violin class until six.
Mom: Yes, but come straight home after. The rain gets heavy after seven P.M.
Wei: All right. I will take an umbrella and leave the motorcycle at home.
媽媽：學校傳來這個。你明天去之前先看一下。
| 陽光國中 · 颱風通知 |
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| 星期四照常上課 |
| 星期五是否上課，於星期四 20:00 公布 |
| 所有資訊請查看學校網頁，不要以電台為準 |
| 若已在校，請留在室內 |
偉：所以星期四照常上課？我有小提琴課上到六點。
媽媽：是，但下課後直接回家。晚上七點後雨會變大。
偉：好。我會帶傘，機車留在家裡。
Keep this page where the whole family can see it.
Do not go out to look at the river, even if the rain seems to have stopped. Water can rise again in twenty minutes, and the ground near a river gives way without a sound.
If the power goes off, do not open the refrigerator. Food inside stays cold for about four hours if the door is kept shut. Check on any neighbor who lives alone once the wind drops, but do not knock after ten P.M. if you are not worried.
請把這張紙放在全家人都看得到的地方。
不要出門去看河，就算雨看起來已經停了也一樣。水可能在二十分鐘內再度上漲，而河邊的地面會無聲地塌陷。
如果停電，不要打開冰箱。門若保持關閉，裡面的食物大約可以維持四小時的低溫。風勢減弱後，請去看看獨居的鄰居，但晚上十點後不要敲門，除非你真的擔心。
Dear Ming,
You asked what a real winter feels like. Today the temperature was minus twelve. That is not a story; it is Tuesday here.
The strange part is not the cold itself. It is what the cold does to time. Nobody stands outside to talk. You walk to the shop with your head down and you do not look up. By four in the afternoon it is dark, so the day feels as if it had been cut in half.
I miss the humid air at home more than I thought I would. I used to say I hated it. Now I would give a lot for one bitter, wet August afternoon with thunder over the hills.
Write soon. Chia
親愛的明：
你問我真正的冬天是什麼感覺。今天氣溫是零下十二度。這不是在說故事，這裡星期二就是這樣。
奇怪的不是寒冷本身，而是寒冷對時間做的事。沒有人會站在外面聊天。你低著頭走去商店，從不抬頭。下午四點天就黑了，所以一天感覺像被切成了一半。
我比自己想像的更想念家裡潮濕的空氣。我以前總說我討厭它。現在我願意用很多東西，換一個悶熱潮濕、山頭有雷聲的八月午後。
快回信。嘉
Ask any voter about the weather last March and they will not know. Ask about the typhoon of ten years ago and they will tell you where they were standing.
We do not remember weather; we remember what the weather made us do. A storm that kept a family in one room for two days is stored as a family story, not as rain. This is why old people say the winters were colder when they were young. Some were, but the ones they remember are the ones that changed a day.
Climate is measured in numbers over eighty years, and almost nobody feels it directly. That is the hard part: the thing we can feel is the storm, and the thing that matters is the slow line under it.
問任何一位選民去年三月的天氣如何，他們都答不出來。問十年前那場颱風，他們會告訴你當時自己站在哪裡。
我們記住的不是天氣，而是天氣讓我們做了什麼。一場把全家關在同一個房間兩天的暴風雨，被存下來的是一則家庭故事，而不是一場雨。這就是為什麼老人家會說他們年輕時冬天比較冷。有些確實比較冷，但他們記得的，是那些改變了某一天的冬天。
氣候是用八十年的數字衡量的，幾乎沒有人能直接感受到。難就難在這裡：我們感受得到的是暴風雨，而真正重要的是它底下那條緩慢的線。