Snow Day in London

So as many of you have heard London had a snow storm last Monday but English snow storms are not the same as US snow storms. As most of you are scraping 6 inches of snow off of your cars daily, or salting ice off of your sidewalks, Londoners are usually just taking their umbrellas with them everywhere they go. When it "snows" here it usually just flurries and doesn't even stick to the ground. Sunday night was different; there were HUGE flakes coming down and before my flat mates and I knew snow was ACCUMULATING on the ground! It was INSANE! There were groups of people on the street throwing snow balls, playing in the snow and having fun in the winter wonderland. Our teachers told us later that many kids from London had probably never seen snow like this before (that is, snow on the ground in fluffy white balls).  The snowstorm was the most snow London had had in 16 years!

Anyways, the next morning when I woke up, early, I was about to shower when my flat mate Danielle says, "SCHOOL'S CANCELLED!" I look out the window and what do I see? Oh, only about 2 inches of snow!!! Not joking at all, it was barely anything. It was equivalent to the amount that the midwest sees in about an hour of snow.  

So all of us Midwest kids thought it was ridiculous that London completely shut down from 2 inches of snow.  The news all day was about: the weather.  One reporter even said, "There is no new news besides the weather.  The weather is the only news."  Also, the tube was closed.  Early that morning all the buses were out of order but later on in the day a couple buses were running.  All the schools in London were closed and since the tubes were down many Londoners couldn't go to work either.  Londoners were crazy about the snow!

Anyways, I posted some pictures from the snow day.  I tried to take pictures outside of my flat window of the street covered in a "snowstorm" but they came out a little shaky.  Also, some kids from our Ball State group, out of sheer boredom during the snow day, came up with a game called "Sockball" inspired by a Friends episode.   Since we didn't have a ball to throw around we had to make a ball with someone's clean pair of socks rolled into a ball.  Basically, sockball requires the group of people playing to continuously throw the 'ball' for as long as possible without dropping it.  If a player drops sockball 3 times they are out.  If there is doubt about who dropped sockball the group can do a chirp-vote, inspired by the 'chirp' Cardinal call, to see who the strike is against.  Our goal was for sockball to last 5 minutes...we got to 3 minutes before we decided to watch a movie.  Sockball is definitely a winning game we will bring back to Muncie.

Pictures from SNOW DAY!