Rain and Snow Knocked on my Window…

So Wednesday morning, somewhere around 3 or 4 in the morning to I got woken by crazy rain and snow hitting my window due to the violent winds that were blowing. Not only was it a rude awakening, I continued to be woken up until I actually had to wake up to get ready to go to work. Luckily by the time I left my apartment, it was only lightly snowing and the ferocious winds had stopped.

This totally sucked for my students since Class Match had to be held indoors. So the boys who had signed up for soccer now had to play ping pong. But they all seemed to have fun despite the bitter cold (still amazed some of them were in their shorts…).

But as always, day 2 is vicious. Because the ３年生 have graduated, there are inter-class games. My kids tend to be competitive anyway but once it becomes the ２年生 versus the １先生…not only do they step up their game, the cheering intensifies. I enjoy trying to document this whole event. However, the stray dodgeball balls are something to fear…especially when the softball girls are playing…hehe.

But back to the crazy weather. It’s March and it should be getting warmer and warmer. It was until this week and we suddenly dropped to freezing degrees and then got snow and rain… And although it continued to snow that day it never piled up so we couldn’t even have a snowball fight. Saaaaaaad.

Hmm…because it was getting warmer, we were expected to have the sakura blossoming for the middle-end of this month. But after this random cold front…could it have been pushed back? Hmmm…

Hopefully there’ll be some around for my block’s 花見 event. (Hanami comes from the kanji of “Flower” 花　and “To See”　見． So it’s usually translated as “Flower Viewing.” But in the Japanese culture, “Hanami” implies picnicking underneath a sakura tree and drinking sake.)