A White Christmas, a White New Years, and a White Martin Luther King Day

Al primer, I'm finding it very difficult to think in English right now, as I went to bed thinking in spanish last night and immediately began thinking in spanish this morning when I realized that I had slept through my despertador and only had 15 minutos to get to mi classe de español.

Que fastidioso.

Snow is a horrible, horrible thing. For those of you from the south, I hope you never experience it. For those of you from the south who are currently at the same school as me, wow, that really sucks, but stop complaining because it only makes it worse for the rest of us. For those of you from Canada, you can probably skip this blog because you probably already know what I'm going to say, and y'all have it way worse anyways..

Or you can stay. It's your choice, really.

Things snow is good for:

• A White Christmas and a couple of days around it are acceptable as well.
• Building snowmen, making snow angels, sledding, snowball fights, and the occasional writing of names. cough.
• Snowboarding and skiing, I guess, but... whatever
• ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE

Snow is cold, wet, torture to drive through, capable of causing pain, capable of whiting out your vision (though with no damage to your retinas, that's a nice touch), and did I mention FREEZING, IT'S FROZEN, IT'S COLD FREAKING FROZEN.

Otra vez, QUE FASTIDIOSO

Movies always show snow as these big flakes of soft, powdery-looking material that's fun to jump in and throw around and roll in in jeans and a sweatshirt with a scarf and a hat, and whenever I see one of these movies I'm sitting here like GO TO FREAKING MICHIGAN (or Canada, I respect you guys) AND TRY THAT YOU IGNORANT TWAT. For real, these people don't know what snow is. Do you know what happens when you roll around in snow? you get really, really wet. Especially if you're wearing a sweatshirt. Do you know what happens next? the 10 degree breeze picks up, gives you a wind chill (a phrase which is apparently not taught in California) of like negative thirty, you freeze your balls off and end up with frost bite which never goes away. Or so I've been told.

While, yes, sledding and snowboarding are fun, and there's novelty in snow angels, snowball fights, and snowmen, and skiing, snow really really sucks.

I've used boldface font a lot in this post. wow.

In a perfect world, we would have a nice white christmas, those couple of weeks off of school would be "national snowboarding fortnight," and then we'd return to our nice warm weekends for the other 11 and a half months of the year. But no, we can't have that in Michigan. We get 5 months of snowy desolate wasteland and another 7 of road construction. WE CAN'T WIN!

Basically, this blog post is a petition to God to change weather patterns and give us that "snowboarding fortnight" I was talking about in the last paragraph. And I wanted to complain about snow, even though I explicitly told all of you southerners not to do that. I guess I'm kind of a hypocrite. Oh well.

Number of times I wanted to type "nieve" instead of "snow" in this post: 91480357094123785