Today being only my second snowfall, I am still in enough wonder and awe to believe it something beautiful.
I’m somewhat confused by Vancouver’s apparent response to what isn’t even a foot high of snow, though. A lot of people didn’t — couldn’t — turn up to class today for reasons that are beyond my knowledge. Traffic accidents seem to be the main culprit, but it’s hard to know when you live on campus. When I got to my American lit class, someone mentioned that UBC is the only post-secondary institution open today. Which really confuses me, because don’t we have what is scorned by any other Canadian as pitiful amounts of snow? Someone was telling me how in Edmonton, snow is waist-high and it’s -44’C. People still seem to manage. And don’t so-called experts predict there will be fiercer winters for Vancouver in the future? I obviously don’t know how true this is, but other people reference it, so if this is true, Vancouver seems a little unprepared…
Questions like this remind me of how foreign the city still is to me sometimes. I think it’ll be foreign to me for a long time.
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