Yeah...so it has finally snowed!
Like a thief in the night, it just crept up without warning and starting drifting down in buckets. I was at work one sunday evening when i noticed that the temperature/wind had dropped and it wasn't as cold as usual.... and just like that...snow.
Earlier that day we had gone to church in the biting cold (made worse by the fact that we had to stand for quite a bit at the bus stop after missing the first bus) and there was no inkling of it. Chijiudo even mentioned that it hadnt snowed for some years here in London. Chioma later went on to attend one of Aunty Ngozi's events while i was at work and suffice to say, it caught us all unawares. It fell for quite some time and the roads got so blocked that they got stuck on a highway for almost five hours after leaving at 10.30 pm..!!! I was very worried and seeing as Chioma went with the house key, i was stuck outside as well. Had to go to aunty's house and stay throughout the night till they came back early in the morning.
So, after a few days, my initial impression of this oft-talked-about, romanticized phenomenon has drastically changed.
Snow has such great PR and has enjoyed such a lovely, excuse the pun, whitewashed reputation of being this nice, beautiful, pristine, harmless, roll-around happily in it thing that yeah...you really wish to experience it. Well i have done so now and hmm...even though it's quite picturesque to look at, the ugly reality of snow is that it's just a bitch of a thing. you have to constantly look out for patches of ground to walk on, It gets clumped together and becomes this icy thing that is eagerly hoping to trip you up, sometimes it comes down as a thing called "sleet"that makes life miserable, it can get into the house/car radiators and make them malfunction, snowballs are a bitch of a thing to get hit with in cold weather and trust me..snow is as cold as ever!!
Additionally, and maybe it's just me, but the few "Snowmen" i've seen, resemble things created by drunk children in Mushin..
Lmao...so maybe it's just me bitching unnecessarily about it because i don't like the cold but yeah...there you have it.
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