Snow Snow Snow!!! (24/01/2007)

 

SEEING AND EXPERIENCING SNOW FLAKES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIFE

IM A 20 YEAR OLD GIRL AND THIS YEAR I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO GERMANY FOR A MONTH. BEFORE WE CAME, WE WHERE TOLD THAT IT IS WINTER IN GERMANY AND WE WHERE ADVISED TO BRING LOADS OF WARM CLOTHES ALONG.I WAS ALL EXCITED, BECAUSE I KNEW IT WAS WINTER AND THAT WE WOULD SEE SNOW.AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN SNOW IN MY LIFE, SO THIS WAS THE ONE THING I WAS REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TOO.

THREE WEEKS AGO WHEN WE GOT TO TÜEBINGEN IT WAS COLDER THAN IN SOUTH AFRICA I CAN ASSURE YOU, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT WASN'T COLD ENOUGH TO SNOW.A WEEK WENT BY AND STILL NO SNOW.WE ASKED EVERYONE WHEN WE WILL SEE SNOW AND THEY ALL REPLIED THAT THIS WAS THE WARMEST WINTER THEY HAVE EVER HAD AND THAT THEY DOUBT THAT IT WOULD SNOW IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY.I WAS REALLY DISSAPPIONTED, BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING AND EXPERIENCING THE SNOW FLAKES SO MANY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT.WE WHERE SUPPOSE TO BUILD SNOW MEN ON OUR HIKE BUT THERE WAS JUST NO SNOW TO DO THIS.WELL SOME OF US PRAYED AND HAD FAITH THAT IT WOULD SNOW,BUT UNFORTUNATELY ANOTHER WEEK PASSED AND STILL NO SNOW.BARBARA HOWEVER PROMISED US SNOW AND WHAT BARBARA WANTS-SHE GETS.

WELL, LAST WEEK FRIDAY WE HAD A RECTORS RECEPTION DINNER AND EVERYONE TOLD US THAT WE WOULD BE SEEING SNOW TODAY(23rd JANUARY 2007).WE ALL CHEERED AND DEFINATELY COULDN'T WAIT FOR THE SNOW.BUT YESTERDAY THE SUN WAS SHINING A LITTLE AND ALL OUR FAITH OF SEEING SNOW WAS LOST.

WELL THIS MORNING I GOT UP AT 7:30pm AND LOOKED OUT OF MY WINDOW.WHAT I SAW WAS SMALL LITTLE THINGS COMING FROM THE SKY.NOT SURE WHETHER IT WAS RAIN I TOOK A STEP CLOSER TO MY WINDOW.WHEN I CAME THERE I SAW THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PIECES OF WHITE SNOW FLAKES FALLING FROM THE SKY.MY FACE JUST LIT UP AUTOMATICALLY, AND WITH THE BIGGEST SMILE EVER IN MY LIFE I JUST STOOD BY MY WINDOW AND ADMIRED EACH DROP OF SNOW THAT CAME DOWN.AFTER ABOUT 30MINUTES I GOT READY FOR CLASS.

WHEN I STEPPED OUT OF THE BUILDING IT WAS FREEZING COLD.I TOOK ABOUT 3 STEPS FURTHER AND THEN THE FIRST SNOW FLAKE FELL ON MY HAND.SUDDENLY I COULDN'T FEEL THE COLDNESS ANYMORE, BECAUSE EVERYTHING INSIDE OF ME JUST GOT SO WARM.I'VE NEVER EVER FELT SO WARM,HAPPY AND SO COLD AT THE SAME TIME.BUT EVERY SNOW FLAKE THAT FALLS IS WORTH THE COLD WEATHER.

WE ONLY EXPERIENCED A LITTLE BIT OF SNOW TODAY BUT, IT FELT AS IF I WAS WALKING THROUGH A FREEZER WITH WHITE SMALL FEATHERS DROPING DOWN ON ME.WHEN WE GOT OUTSIDE EVERYONE JUST HAD A SMILE ON THEIR FACE.WE WHERE SHIVERING BUT WE WANTED TO BE IN THE COLD THE WHOLE TIME JUST TO EXPERIENCE THE MOST WONDERFUL SITUATION YOU CAN FIND YOURSELF IN-SEEING AND EXPERIENCING SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIFE.I WISH I COULD LET EVERY SINGLE PERSON EXPERIENCE WHAT I HAVE EXPERIENCED TODAY, BECAUSE IT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY.

THE SNOW DIDN'T LAST VERY LONG BUT THE EXPERIENCE WILL LAST ME A LIFETIME AND I WILL TREASURE THIS DAY IN MY HEART FOREVER AND EVER.

I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK-YOU TO EVERYONE THAT MADE THIS TRIP POSSIBLE FOR US.IT IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED AND WE WON'T EVER FORGET ALL THE EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE BROUGHT INTO OUR LIVES.ESPECIALLY THE SNOW.

JUDY LATELL