Took It Long Enough

After four months of being here, I've seen it rain about five or six times, and it hasn't snowed properly at all. I've been told that this is the driest it's been in over a decade.

I woke up at about 7:30, and was about to sleep in another 30 minutes or so when I got an sms from one of my Chinese friends.

Hi. Get up. Look out the window. It's snowing!

I'm fairly certain she spammed the message to everyone in her contact list, because a couple minutes later I got a similar message from one of the other teachers who probably wouldn't be awake for another hour or so under normal conditions.

I glanced out my bedroom/balcony window and caught a glimpse of snow. I rushed out of my room and looked out the living room window to get a better look. It was beautiful. It's changed to sleet by now, but it was a wonderful morning. Large wet flakes were falling from the sky, and although they melted when they hit solid ground, there was a thick white covering on all the plants and cars. Perfect snowball snow too.

Like my dad, I'm not a fan of the snow, but I was beginning to fear that for the first time in 21 years I'd go a Winter without a sheet of white on the ground.