Snow? What? In London?

It’s snowing?…What? That is definitely not right, I mean generally speaking it could happen, but come on it’s London not France. Anyway, I woke up this morning to a very pretty picture (which I took from my window by the way). It’s actually quite lovely and pleasant. I kinda wish I could say that statement after I walked to class. That in itself was quite a struggle and quite amusing at the same time.

But before we start to discuss the trek to campus, let’s just speak about the simple fact of what some people like to call heat. I know it’s a very simple concept, especially in the winter time, but I think there might have been a slight disconnect somewhere here on this continent. It seems as though it is customary to crank the heat all day and then turn it off at night. Ok, I can almost see the reverse logic in that statement, but nonetheless so far so good (it has worked). How about this…When the forecast is predicting “the largest storm/snow in London’s history” one might think to leave the heat and hot water on. NOT THE CASE TODAY!!! I wake up with plenty of time to take a nice hot shower, only to wake up freezing my butt off as well as find out not only is the heat off, but in fact there is no hot water. And I am sure as hell am not going to take a cold shower (all those at skidmore can attest to that statement – when it’s cold you want a hot shower, right?). Is that too much to ask for? I’m sorry it might have been, thank god someone turned it on eventually… phew

On my way to Regent Street campus to go to my International Security Studies class, I walk by the same people everyday. You know the classic business person with their overcoat and their umbrella, etc… This time it was very fun to just walk and observe the different ways in which the people tried to bare the storm. Kids were pulling each other by the coat tails and “ice-skating” through the classic city slush that is produced by these storms, the grownups were either bundled all the way up and trying to just get to wherever it was that they need to go or trying not to get completely soaked from the feet up. And then there were the cars, cabs, and buses driving four feet and stopping because traffic was packed and because the tube seems to “shut down” when there is bad weather, everyone essentially took to the streets and took other modes of transportation.

Nonetheless, I just wanted to share to you all that it does in fact snow in London and all I wanted after my class was a bowl of soup and heat!! Thanks Katie for telling me to save the soup for a really cold day it was just what I wanted.

Until I heat up… oh just u wait!!!