SNOW!

Video from YouTube

Photograph: Alessandro Di Meo/EPA
As you have seen from the video and picture and the frantic Facebook statuses of all of your Rome Center student friends, it snowed last week! Numerous mixed statistics arose, such as some of the Italian staff members claiming it hadn't snowed like that since the sixties, or others saying 1985 was the last big snow, or incredibly detailed Internet sites claiming 2005. Either way, the JFRC freaked out.

I love seeing snow on palm trees. I didn't even mind being woken up to knocking on my door by Dan and Matt and them opening my window to show me the winter wonderland outside. That morning and afternoon included snowball fights and the building of a snowman, although I was lazy and stayed inside because I take forever to get ready in the morning. Typical me!