Haircicles and other fascinations

Haircicles= What your freshly showered hair turns in to when you walk through -17 degree air.

I am quite fascinated by this chilling weather I am now becoming strangely accustomed to. This morning I experienced a record breaking (in MY life anyway) -29 degrees. Plus a wind chill factor which made it feel like it was in the -40’s. yikes! QUITE nippy….. I watched as one student threw a cup of hot water into the air and it turned to steam/snow. I’m actually enjoying the cold quite a bit, it’s very refreshing. It’s strange though, gulping in the sharp, cold air, coughing it back out as it chills my lungs, running out of air, gulping it in again, and starting the cycle all over again… Also, I have become acquainted with a feeling in my nose which I was previously not accustomed to. When you breathe through your nose, (which you must do if you wish to avoid the breathe-cough-breath-cough-breathe cycle,) the warm moisture inside your nose freezes, creating a strangely stiff/tingly sensation in your nostrils, which is removed when you exhale. The first time I experienced this I found it quite fascinating, and I must say it has yet to lose its initial interest.

My dear friend Cally is sitting next to me, and we were discussing how to write accents and such. We came up with the following statement (though it is not actually true of today): ‘ello gov’nah! Dash it all! It’s been a rotter of a day!

Yeah, that’s it. I think there was more but I forget it and it would probably be hard to write with the accent. Cally also taught me how to pronounce abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Although I think I already forget. She says big bird taught her though, so maybe I’ll ask him.

This is getting a little off track, so I think I’ll stop now. When shall the next post appear? We shall see.