SCHNEE! It snowed overnight, so I woke up to this outside my bedroom window :D I was so excited because it was still snowing lightly, but Marina was a bit upset that she had to walk to the bus stop in the snow. On my way to uni I ran into a few Australian students and we were all really excited. It didn't snow very hard until just before our morning break. There was a whole row of Australians sitting in the classroom facing the window, and we were distracted all morning by the snow. When it started coming down harder our teacher just gave up because we were too excited to concentrate. The Americans were really amused by us running around with our arms in the air and stuff :P
This was the view from the door to our floor in the building. We're on the third floor. You can see all the snowflakes and stuff! Apparently this is the warm kind of snow that melts a bit on the way down, so it's all sticky and clumps together. It's perfect snowball snow. The ground isn't cold enough yet, so it just melts as soon as it hits the pavement, but it was collecting on the tops of cars, roofs and on lawns. We didn't really have enough to play with, so we didn't get to make snowmen or have a real snowball fight or anything. By the afternoon it had stopped snowing and now it's all melted away D:
It's really cold now. It was only 1 degree when I left the house this morning. After class I ended up having to stand at the freezing cold unprotected bus stop for over half an hour, waiting for the bus that supposedly comes every ten minutes. Not happy Jan. By the time I got home I felt like an iceblock, and it's taken me ages to finally warm up again. The house is kept at a constant 19 degrees, which is WAY TOO COLD in my opinion, so I might ask Marina if we can possibly turn it up a bit. Right now I'm wearing three pairs of socks, two cotton layers, one woolly dress and two jumpers to try to keep warm. I'm drinking hot tea, which is helping a lot.
I ended up going to Catherine's birthday party last night. It was really fun! We had a table barbecue, which was this thing that had a hot plate on the top to cook little sausages and prawns on, then underneath between the hot plate and the warmer at the bottom were teeny little frying pans. You're supposed to take a pan, fill it with stuff and stick it in the heat to cook it. On the table were things like potatoes and ham and cheese and mushrooms and corn kernels and little onions and capsicum and other small foodthings like that to put in the pans. It was really nice. Catherine's host family are really nice as well, they talked to us in German and spoke nice and slow, and complimented us if we used good grammar bits. We also had some really yummy German champagne.
Right now I would just like to feel warm again. When I have a shower I have to start with lukewarm water and work up to nice and hot, because hot water straight away stings too much D: I can't wait to go back home to summer again. I've only been in Germany for two weeks, but it seems so much longer because so much has happened. There's only four more weeks left of the course, and then I'm off to the UK. It seems like such a short time.
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