I honestly thought that waking up was going to be worse after only 3 hours of sleep...but I somehow managed! On my way to the door of my residencia I noticed that the snow did stick pretty well....4-5 inches or so. We headed over to the bus stop, assuming that everything would still be running smoothly. Oh how wrong we were! We waited for the bus for what seemed like forever, and then it took us an hour to make a 15 minute commute because there was so much traffic due to the snow. Once we finally made it into the plaza and made the walk we had missed most of our first class (which the professor was nice about...he'd been late too) and we found out that our second class was cancelled because our other Professor was stuck in Guadelajara because some of the HIGHWAYS! were closed! 4 inches of snow mind you!
After class let out we headed outside to find ourselves in the middle of a middle school snow fight!...intense to say the least! There was this one kid that had stolen a cardboard box from his classroom and he was just sprinting the length of the plaza while dragging the box on the ground and then dumping the piles on the girls!...one girl wasn't going to settle for that though. She gave him a few minutes to get distracted by other girls while she made a snowball the size of a basketball. She yelled over to him "Daviiiiid! Mirame!" (Look at me!). As soon as he turned around, she hit him square in the face! Niiiiiice!
We had a great time in the snow talking to the kids and our friends from Australia who had never seen so much snow. One of them just splayed out on the ground in her jeans to make a snow angel and got the snow all down her pants...something she wasn't really used to obviously ha. The snow craze was everywhere! People just dropped what they were doing at work and school to come out and build snowmen and have snow fights in the plaza! This group of old guys (60-70 yr olds ha) was trying to run around and nail people with snowballs without them knowing who it was that hit them. They'd hide behind trees and everything. We're talking guerilla warfare here! I got hit 3 times before finally finding the old rascal! We finally started to make our way over to the buses, but our friends had already been waiting for awhile and they told us that the buses had been suspended for an "indefinite" amount of time...helpful right? We decided to go grab a small bite and hopefully they would be up and running later....eh not so much.
After class let out we headed outside to find ourselves in the middle of a middle school snow fight!...intense to say the least! There was this one kid that had stolen a cardboard box from his classroom and he was just sprinting the length of the plaza while dragging the box on the ground and then dumping the piles on the girls!...one girl wasn't going to settle for that though. She gave him a few minutes to get distracted by other girls while she made a snowball the size of a basketball. She yelled over to him "Daviiiiid! Mirame!" (Look at me!). As soon as he turned around, she hit him square in the face! Niiiiiice!
We had a great time in the snow talking to the kids and our friends from Australia who had never seen so much snow. One of them just splayed out on the ground in her jeans to make a snow angel and got the snow all down her pants...something she wasn't really used to obviously ha. The snow craze was everywhere! People just dropped what they were doing at work and school to come out and build snowmen and have snow fights in the plaza! This group of old guys (60-70 yr olds ha) was trying to run around and nail people with snowballs without them knowing who it was that hit them. They'd hide behind trees and everything. We're talking guerilla warfare here! I got hit 3 times before finally finding the old rascal! We finally started to make our way over to the buses, but our friends had already been waiting for awhile and they told us that the buses had been suspended for an "indefinite" amount of time...helpful right? We decided to go grab a small bite and hopefully they would be up and running later....eh not so much.
We ended up having to take the train back to the stop on our campus because it was the only thing running. We trudged through the slush for a mile or so to the train station in our chucks, sneakers, and flats...not exactly snow gear. By the time we reached the station I thought I had frostbite on my toes! We bought train tickets and ended up waiting at the station for over an hour and a half for the train to come...again our residencia is usually only a 15 minute ride... So much for our "snow day." We were all so excited to finally get on the train where there was heat! However the ride was only about 5 minutes long and then we had to trudge from the train station back to our dorms...what a day! When we finally made it back we were all too cold and exhausted to do anything so we just hung out and talked about our bonding experience!
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