YESTERDAY IT SNOWED FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! No joke, I was as giddy as someone that has never seen snow in their life. I'm usually pretty excited for the first snow, but I think this year was even MORE exciting because I was afraid there would never be any.
I hadn't even realized it was snowing until I was standing at the inside door, and the mailman was coming in from the outside and I saw it behind him! Had to resist the urge to dance around and cackle maniacally. It has been colder the last few days (meaning I think it has been in the mid-20s to upper-20s, so not even that bad), and everyone looks miserable. Not to enjoy others' misery or anything, but back in MY day, we didn't get snowdays until the windchill dropped us below -30°F, so it's hard to get worked up about 0°C. Suckers.
It's not cold until your snot freezes.
View from M° Trocadero, on my way to babysit yesterday.
The métro looks so festive with a touch of snow! Speaking of the métros, "en raison de divers incidents, la ligne 2 est perturbée," or because of LIFE in general, THE PUBLIC TRANSIT NO LONGER WORKS. Apparently there were strikes on some métro lines (in addition to the usual RER A and B strikes which make everything more crowded), suicides, power outages, and who knows what else. Oh right, and snow makes France incompetent. I guess, coming from snow country, I have a hard time understanding that those who aren't used to getting dumped on regularly have a more difficult time. It's like getting a dusting in Florida. Cars off the road, traffic out of control, mass chaos, cranky people. Meanwhile I'm dancing around eating the snowflakes as they fall like I'm in the Nutcracker.
To each his/her own.
Finally, that same florist's shop with the weird colorful trees (ps, they expanded their collection- last time they had purple and radioactive vomit green and a few others). Got a nice shot of some normal trees covered in snow, and it was almost like being back in New York :)
Threw my first snowball of the year at the door behind which my friend Nicolas was standing during orchestra. Worth it. May or may not instigate massive snowball fight at school Friday... Because I'm the responsible adult!
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The Mid Atlantic from North Carolina to Rhode Island is due for a nor'easter tomorrow that should blizzard up LI for 12 hours straight.
ReplyDeleteSorry. Knowing how much you like cold weather phenomena I think you might consider that report as snow on your parade.
Maybe you can make snowflakes with l'enfants. If they aren't too intricate with too many holes you could write something on them...
ooo! I know a snow language learning game. You write out vocab words on white pieces of scrap paper, both the English and the French. Then kids crumple them up and have a "snowball fight" in which they throw the paper at each other (no head shots). Then, they have to find a snowball, uncrumple it, and find the person who has the same word in the other language.
This may be just a Buffalo vocab game (also NY snow country), but perhaps it's worthy of transatlantic transmission.