Riv (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} riverie) wrote,@ 2009-01-08 09:53:00 |
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Bonjour!
Bonjour de France!
It has been quite sometime since i last updated. oops.
I have been in France for almost 2 months now and it has been so fun i hardly find time to sleep. :p
yesterday, it started snowing heavily in my city. As we are in the south-west, the weather is milder and it usually snows for a few days a year, and when it snows, the snow melts right away. But yesterday it was snowing and snowing and by the time i came out from my pilates classes 1 hour later, there was a good 5cm of snow on the ground already. As the city's people are in general not used to so much snow, the cars were moving very very x100 slowly (i walk faster than they drive; if you know my speed (or lack of) of walking, you'll comprehend ;p). Some roads were so covered that i couldnt recognize which is the road and which is the sidewalk. But i decided to walk instead of taking a bus, which was a good choice because the buses stopped operating even until this morning. (i almost fell down 146 times walking to
work today - it's a wonder i can be here typing).
It became even more dramatic when i reached the street where i live, which is on a gentle hill. There was a major traffic congestion there, as cars were ramming their engines, the wheels were spinning like mad, but the cars are not moving up the slope. It was quite funny ( i am sure the driver disqgree with me). Those that are able to inch up the slope, they looked like there were skating. People were pushing the 'cannot make it' cars off the road out of the way like one would push a trolley. At the top of the hill, there was almost no traffic and people were ice skating on the roads!
My roof window (what is the proper name for those windows in the ceiling, on the roof of the house?) is all covered with snow. The fragranced candles I bought from Zara Home keeps my room nice and cosy. :)
Bonjour de France!
It has been quite sometime since i last updated. oops.
I have been in France for almost 2 months now and it has been so fun i hardly find time to sleep. :p
yesterday, it started snowing heavily in my city. As we are in the south-west, the weather is milder and it usually snows for a few days a year, and when it snows, the snow melts right away. But yesterday it was snowing and snowing and by the time i came out from my pilates classes 1 hour later, there was a good 5cm of snow on the ground already. As the city's people are in general not used to so much snow, the cars were moving very very x100 slowly (i walk faster than they drive; if you know my speed (or lack of) of walking, you'll comprehend ;p). Some roads were so covered that i couldnt recognize which is the road and which is the sidewalk. But i decided to walk instead of taking a bus, which was a good choice because the buses stopped operating even until this morning. (i almost fell down 146 times walking to
work today - it's a wonder i can be here typing).
It became even more dramatic when i reached the street where i live, which is on a gentle hill. There was a major traffic congestion there, as cars were ramming their engines, the wheels were spinning like mad, but the cars are not moving up the slope. It was quite funny ( i am sure the driver disqgree with me). Those that are able to inch up the slope, they looked like there were skating. People were pushing the 'cannot make it' cars off the road out of the way like one would push a trolley. At the top of the hill, there was almost no traffic and people were ice skating on the roads!
My roof window (what is the proper name for those windows in the ceiling, on the roof of the house?) is all covered with snow. The fragranced candles I bought from Zara Home keeps my room nice and cosy. :)
