First Snow!

Last week, all Wittenberg students suddenly got an e-mail warning us about an upcoming snowstorm. "Chance of a Storm: Good." I didn't think much about it at first, but within the entire campus was covered in snow. Everything looked beautiful, and the temperature had suddenly (in a period of two days) dropped from 19°C to a perceived temperature of -11°C.

Living in a building with a lot of internationals was probably one of the most fun things that could happen at the moment. Some had never seen snow before and had been amazed, it was the cutest thing. They were looking at the sky for an hour straight, trying to catch some of the falling snow.

The first day of snow, some of the internationals decided to have a snow fight at midnight. Martin, Micky, Neo, Rayika, David and Vicky (a non-international, one of my teammates and the soon to be girlfriend of Martin;) all grabbed our jackets and went outside. Making snowmen wasn't a big success, so we kept it to throwing snowballs at each other, tackling each other, sliding down a hill on our butts and dropping snow inside each other's clothes. We had a blast.

I think it was the second or third day that we went out together again. We decided to go sledging and, because we didn't have any sledges, used our laundry baskets instead. We went to The Hollow, a beautiful hill on campus, and tried our sledging skills out. The snow wasn't ideal but with some pushing each other down the hill, we all made it to the bottom of the hill. Sometimes with our laundry basket, sometimes without: we often fell out at some point. I don't think I've ever had this much fun while sledging.

We were about to head out, when David took the wrong exit. Instead of walking outside, he walked into a girls room. We we're all laughing and rolling around when he fled the room with red cheeks and headed out of the right exit.

Our snow fight started in our own hallway.

Our campus is even more beautiful when it is covered in snow.

Walking towards classes was a struggle though: it was cold and slippery.

The Hollow, where we decided to go sledging in laundry baskets.

Campus again - Making my way back to my dorm.

In my opinion the most beautiful building on campus, covered in snow.

Because snow means the beginning of winter and Christmas, I started writing some christmas letters!