Jandles

I last left off with saying that it was snowing and I went outside in my jandles.  On Monday morning, I woke up and looked out my window and it looked white but I was not sure because my window was frosty.  I went out to the common room to look out those windows to see how much snow was out there.  There was some on the ground and it looked pretty.  I started to eat my breakfast and then I heard one of my flat mates say that uni was closed.  I thought that it was really strange that it was closed because there was not that much snow outside but I did not mind.  Since uni was closed but we were all up anyways, we had breakfast and then got ready to head outside in the snow.  Looking at who was outside you could tell the skiers apart from the locals.  The skiers had on their matching ski jackets and pants.  The locals really did not know how to dress to go play in the snow; most did not have a good snow jacket or good shoes or gloves.  The lack of gloves made it hard for them to make snowmen or snowballs.  It was really pretty once we made it outside.  We went over to another flat and started throwing snowballs at the window of my flat mates friend.   We then all walked around campus.  It was really pretty seeing all the trees covered in snow.  

We went to the big sport field and saw many people making snowmen.  We left there right before a big snowball fight was going to break out.  The snow was not quite deep enough to summersault in/head stand like Maine but I was able to belly slide in it.  

We headed back to our flat and went inside and warm up.  I then spent most of Monday sitting inside the common room looking out the window watching the snowfall.  I was not able to stay out of the snow for too long though and since my jandles were still in the common room from the previous night I often put them on and headed out to the balcony to enjoy the snow falling.   

On Monday night we were talking about if we thought that uni was going to be closed on Tuesday.  The news was saying that people should try to stay off the roads because they were going to icy.  On Tuesday uni was closed until 11 because of the ice.  I found out that CHCH does not know how to function in the snowy weather.  On Tuesday, it was really icy.  On Monday afternoon, they should have gone out and solved the slush of the paths because it froze over night.  They started putting sand/gravel down on the ice in the afternoon but at one point looking out the window we saw three people fall in about a five minute time frame.  By Wednesday most of the snow and ice was gone but in the shade it was still icy and slippery.

Monday was an exciting day but most of the rest of my week was not that exciting.  I continued to go to my lectures once uni opened up again.  In on Psyc class we have started talking about the accuracy of theories and how to test the theories.  In my Geol class we have continued to learn about earthquakes but we are now focusing on how different types affect people and society.  My maths class has gotten better I think.  It is more interesting and I am understanding it better.  I went to my maths tutorial on Friday that helped.  In tutorial we go over some examples of what we are doing in class.  In my CHCH class we had a disruption about the readings we did the week before.  I think a couple of interesting things that we talked about was why people served, if that mattered and what the definition of caring was. 

One exciting thing that I did this week was I played soccer.  I was invited by two people from the operation friendship dinner to play indoor soccer with them.  It was really fun to play soccer again.  I hope I can play some more.  On Sunday I went to frisbee. It was really nice outside so it was nice to spend some time outside. 

This week has been a nice and calm week.  Until next week have fun.