It's far north here. I didn't realize how north- even with all the warnings my dad gave me.
Colorado is not a warm state. At all. It's not like Wisconsin or anything, but we have our share of snow and cold days. But it seems like a tropical vacation compared to Northeast England! The other issue is that because of the tilt of the Earth and my geographic location, there are simply fewer hours of daylight. If I finish class at five, I'll walk outside and the moon is shining bright. It's dark or getting dark most of the time so the ground never has a chance to warm up in the sun. And the sun isn't out super often either. But then you get days like Thursday. I was getting conflicting reports about snow in Sunderland. There was nothing I wanted more than a true winter day in England. And that's what we got that day. When I woke up, the outside window looked like a snow globe. I had to look twice to make sure, but yes. Outside was a winter wonderland. And the snow was sticking. When I walked outside, my boots crunched the snow. The sky was English grey (Is that a color? I'm making it a color.) and heavy with more precipitation to come. The air was /freezing/. Two degrees Celsius- or 36 Fahrenheit, but felt like 26 according to my phone. So freezing but still comparitively warm for frozen water, which meant the snow fell in giant fluffy flakes that stuck in everyone's hair. It also meant perfect snowball and snowman making weather. Throughout the day, snowmen popped up everywhere. Every hour or so, you could hear someone screaming in a snowball assault. I kept humming Frozen songs throughout the day, and when I got back to my flat I was knocking on everyone's doors: "Do you want to build a snowman?" Five minutes later, we were running around in the snow like children. My socks were soaked and my hair a curly mess. My skin had that wonderfully cold feeling you get when your heart is pumping like crazy but the air is too chilly to ignore. We ended the snow day with hot chocolate and holiday biscuits (cookies). It was a wonderful way to start December.
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