Snow!

As you've seen from several of my previous posts, it is getting quite chilly here and I'm not really used to it.  Thankfully though, the really cold days have generally been sunny.  This past weekend, while I was in Belfast, I believe a light dusting fell, as I came across itty bitty bits on my drive home from Heathrow.

I watch the weather each morning and I knew it was going to be cold this week and that Scotland had a chance of snow, but I did not hear the word mentioned for this part of the country.  Perhaps it was said, but no one yelled it or put it on the screen in big bold letters telling you to go stock up on milk and bread.  I know, odd, isn't it?  So, I woke up this morning, and as usual, was sleepily checking Facebook when I noticed that a colleagues status said, "Well, I wasn't expecting snow!"  My eyes popped open, I jumped up to pull the curtains back to discover a white world!  I was as giddy as a school girl!  The time that I usually spend dozing in and out of sleep was spent checking weather reports, driving reports, Facebook, etc.

It was not a lot of snow, but there was enough to give everything a pretty good covering.  It was beautiful!  But the weird part was, they didn't shut down.  People still drove to work and kids still went to school.  We Alabamians don't do that... when it snows, we buy the stores out of milk and bread and sit huddled around the fire place drinking hot chocolate.

I walked to school this morning, as I do most mornings, believing that walking seemed much less dangerous than driving.  It still took me longer to get to school though as the sidewalks were quite slippery!  I also learned that I do need to infest in a pair of wellies!

When I walked into the staff briefing this morning, cheerful and full of snowy thoughts, the head teacher said, "Look at Rebecca, she's never seen snow in her life!"  I had to explain that yes, I had seen snow, but it was still quite the rarity at home.  (I decided not to tell him that I resisted not doing a snow angel this morning on the field because I knew the kids were not allowed on it and I was afraid one of them would be blamed.)

I was shocked at how subdued the kids were today.  They were quieter in lessons than they normally are!  Perhaps it is more the Alabamian in me rather than the kid then, because man, I loved it!