Weather

The picture of the day:This is your lovely blogger, attempting to conquer her fear of birds at Stratford. This swan and I had a relationship: I had food, and he wanted it. I was terrified when he stalked over at me and my friends, sitting on the ground, enjoying our food. The stupid swan was eye level with me! It was an...experience.

Today, all of my college awoke to see that campus was covered in ice and snow. The giant storm that hit the midwest did not miss me! Honestly, we all expected classes to be cancelled, and they should have been. Walking even 50 yards to the closest building to my dorm was dangerous - it was impossible to walk on the sidewalks. Halfway through class, we all learn that classes after 3 had been cancelled, so my afternoon was free of work.

The snow has kept falling, recovering the sidewalks and streets. Because parts of it melted during the day today and then refroze, the trees are covered in ice. Earlier this evening, the news flashed that around 6000 people don't have power in the greater Evansville area; the Red Cross has set up an emergency shelter for those without power and, consequently, heat.

I am very blessed to be sitting in a dorm with copious heat. The windows don't leak air. I have plent of clothes and blankets to keep me warm if the heat does go out!

Walking back from dinner around six was a scary experience. I warned my mom on the phone that if she heard a crash, I had just fallen on my face! If classes are not cancelled tomorrow, I will be truly surprised and concerned. About a third of our student population are commuters, and quite a few professors live in the next town over. And it's still snowing!

Here's to hoping that you are warm and toasty, wherever you are!

Picture of the Day

I've decided to post a picture of the day from the remaining trips that I haven't written about. This includes the travel I did with my father! Meanwhile, I'll update a little about what's going on in my life. :)

Today's picture:

This is the subway at 5 am. It was empty, as you can tell. We were on the first tube to get to the train station to catch a train to get to port to catch a ferry to Amsterdam (did ya catch that?). It was creepy because there was no one else on!

School is busy. I am taking 13 hours of Victorian Lit, Fitzgerald & Hemingway, Social Psychology, and Biology 100 (plus lab). I'm also working 8 hours a week in the writing center, tutoring students in improving their writing. My classes are okay - not as exciting as I thought they would be. Biology is...well, it's science, and science is not my favorite subject at all. 

Right now, however, the campus is in an uproar because we are under a weather storm warning. It's been sleeting/snowing/precipitating all night, and all the local school systems are already closed. We're hoping that we are awoken at an ungodly hour in the morning to the sound of our phones alerting us that we don't have class. 

Life is moving along.