Winter Wonderland

Well the snow has finally arrived! It started yesterday afternoon while I was in social ethics and continued through the night and now it looks like this outside:

There is a white blanket that has covered the world we know and made it into an ice garden of muffled sounds crunching under foot. It’s amazing how peaceful falling snow can make one feel. It was quite hard to concentrate in class yesterday as the snow trickled down from the heavens.

There are some students that have never experienced snow. They’ve seen it in the movies, but this white blanket we find ourselves in is quite foreign to them. Avril from Australia is one of those people and she and Siaquoia from Liberia have been having lots of fun in the snow.

Some of us decided to take a walk this morning and enjoy the crisp air and take in the untainted snow before it disappears. We found the ecumenical snow man that Siaquoia and Ernesto from the Philippines made last night. There were no coals or carrots available so they used rocks and a bit of orange peel. Very fitting.

Those of us taking the walk tried to make a snow man of our own, but the snow is too dry and we were not able to pack it into balls; it must have been more rain than snow yesterday because I think the other snow man turned out quite well, even with a lopsided head.

After a nice walk, taking time to have a snow ball fight and make snow angels we made it back to Petite Bossey with little more than wet boots from stepping in a puddle that wasn’t quite frozen, we are buckling down to finish papers that are due on Friday and study for next weeks exams. Our time is slowly slipping away, as time always does, and I am enjoying this last month of my stay here at Bossey and feeling nostalgic about our beginnings.  These people and this place will always hold a special place in my heart.  We will never again be in this community as it is, but it will continue to change us as we return to our homes.

The snow should last through the weekend, but it will probably melt next week. Too bad, I rather like this white stuff, feels like Switzerland.

Avril and Nora playing in the snow and me making a snow angel.

Victor (Nigeria), Anna (UK), Linda (UK), Leonard (Burkina Fosso), Avril (Australia), Nora (Germany), Gerard (Burkina Fosso)

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