My Favourite Things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

Silver white winters that melt into springs

These are a few of my favorite things

Snow season has begun and Mark and I have been blessed with our first sighting of falling snow- awwww. Late last week there was talk that snow was on it's way and on Wednesday it finally arrived. I peeked out the window on Wednesday morning and didn't see anything except for a grey, miserable typicaly English Winter day but when we stepped outside we were greeted with the softest, lightest falling of snow. It was amazing, although the romance of the situation was killed somewhat with Mark's comment of "You look like your hair is covered in dandruff". Nice Mark, really nice.

The snow continued to fall throughout the day and it was beautiful, I'm ashamed to admit that I got more distracted by it than the kids. I'd be standing at the front of the class teaching away when I'd catch sight of fresh snow falling and be completely mesmerised. The students, never missing a moment would all stop, look at me for a nanosecond and then go all feral and run around outside. Even though all my warnings and threats of detentions/ beatings/ decapitations etc. fell on deaf ears which would normally have my blood pressure going through the roof I enjoyed a few moments of seeing them behaving like children. Yes, they attempted to throw snowballs at me but I really liked the innocence of the situation. Maybe my judgement was snowed under (boom, tish) but watching my normally swearing, punching, drug-dealing kids playing in all that pure white snow was really beautiful. I don't know if you've got a brilliant new television show in Australia yet called 'Ugly Betty' which is my current TV obsession but there was such a sweet quote in it that I really related to while watching my students.

Wilhelmina: "Snow is a magical blanket, it hides what's ugly and makes everything beautiful. "

Geez, I'm really beginning to sound like a Desperate Housewives voiceover now. Somebody slap me.