January 10, 2006

I woke up this morning to SNOW!! It wasn't really much of anything, just a dusting on the roof tops. Evidently Niigata has got like 4 metres of snow. One of my students today, her grandparents live there and usually they just get out of the second story window all winter. This year they can't even to that as the snow is higher so they have to be constantly digging out the window and clearing the snow, just so that they won't get buried in their own house. Now that's something to make the Canadians back home sit up and take notice of!!! The Prairie folk have got it easy compared to that. And take note...no central heating.