What happens when you put three teachers and a cook on the bus in the snow?

Absolutely nothing! We had our first "snow storm" today, and our normally 30 minute bus ride turned into a two-hour crawl through gridlocked traffic! All for maybe 2cm of snow, literally. There wasn't even much snow on the road, as most of it was melting from the traffic, yet somehow everyone forgot how to drive. I really wish we had taken some pictures, but we forgot the camera, as usual.

We really could have walked faster, and considered it, yet we got on the bus with the school's cook and she kept grabbing Tara's arm and making us stay. She's really funny, and very nice, but doesn't speak any English at all. She did let us use her phone, so the school knew that we wouldn't be making it anywhere close to on time. About halfway on our journey our co-teacher Rebecca joined us, saying that she had already been on a bus for two hours!

It's so crazy! It was hardly even snowing. All of the kids were like, "teacher, teacher! Many many snowing!" But I drew them some pictures and showed them how it was nothing like back in Canada. I'll show them some more pictures on Monday, to drive home my point.

It is true that they just aren't prepared for days like today, as no one has snow tires, and they don't even have salt for the roads. But people on the street, I guess because it looks like it should be cold, dress like it's -40 degrees out, when it's 3 or 4 degrees outside. And they keep telling Tara to get a new coat. It's just bizarre to think of this as extreme weather, when it's the normal run of the mill snowfall for any self-respecting Canadian town. I wouldn't dare call it a "storm."