Snow in Mannheim
Monday, December 08, 2008
I know this is painfully late and I should have blogged about it much sooner. Now its just old news and its no longer exciting. At the point I thought I should try and blog about my experiences chronologically but I guess its no big deal. I blogged about the Bah Kut Teh out of sequence anyways. And now I am filled with regret because I am unable to muster up the excitement I felt that day and channel it into the post. Sigh...
Quick update. My exchange is ENDING. I officially have only 1 or 2 more posts about my experiences on exchange. Tomorrow my exams start and I have 4 back to back papers spread over 3 days. This is actually pretty amazing considering even in SMU, I've never had exams packed this tight before. Oh well, I just need to pass. I'll be back in Singapore in a month.
So I woke up 2 weeks ago one morning, on the 22 of November, and it had snowed! LOL. I still remember worrying that I might be unable to see snow because apparently it doesn't snow all that often here in Mannheim. Actually I was pretty retarded. I woke up, looked out the window TWICE at two different locations, and I didn't notice the snow. It was only I checked out Jiahui's MSN nick that I realized it snowed! It was then that I slipped from retardness to excitement. I quickly put on some more layers and ran down to take pictures~!
It was really cool, and not all that cold! I mean, this will sound duh but, everything was so white! So clean! Winter was here!
Then the snow melted. And it was pretty much ho-hum. It snowed in many places in Europe that weekend so I guess it was just a one shot cold spell and we got really lucky. Then, the next night, it started snowing AGAIN! And not just wussy snow. Real snow. So for the first time in my life, I got to go play outside, WHILE it was snowing.
The reason why I suddenly blogged about the weather now is because, I just encountered another kind of weather I've never experienced before. FREEZING FOG.
That's right. Freezing fog. I'm gonna go outside and experience for myself what FREEZING FOG feels like. I'm pretty sure it'll be nothing awesome. Just looks like regular fog. But at least I blogged about it shortly after it happened.
***ADDENDUM***
I just got back from outside. Cool! So not only does freezing fog... well fog up your vision, its actually cold and humid enough that it causes frost to form ON the surface of things exposed to it. And its not something you can brush off apparently. You have to SCRAPE it off. Cooooool.
And spastic me chose to go out in my slippers.
Things on my mind:
Countdown to Reunion
End of a wonderful experience
Exams
Boobies
Gerger
Sprouting Nonsense Since 1984 {3:03 pm}
It was really cool, and not all that cold! I mean, this will sound duh but, everything was so white! So clean! Winter was here!
Then the snow melted. And it was pretty much ho-hum. It snowed in many places in Europe that weekend so I guess it was just a one shot cold spell and we got really lucky. Then, the next night, it started snowing AGAIN! And not just wussy snow. Real snow. So for the first time in my life, I got to go play outside, WHILE it was snowing.
The reason why I suddenly blogged about the weather now is because, I just encountered another kind of weather I've never experienced before. FREEZING FOG.
That's right. Freezing fog. I'm gonna go outside and experience for myself what FREEZING FOG feels like. I'm pretty sure it'll be nothing awesome. Just looks like regular fog. But at least I blogged about it shortly after it happened.
And spastic me chose to go out in my slippers.
Things on my mind:
Gerger