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Snow!!
Can you remember the first time you saw snow?
We've got snow today, and while marching through the six inches which had covered everything over night, I felt as though I was seeing it for the first time, maybe because I didn't mind it. It is so incredibly beautiful!
All the university is swarming with people taking the same pictures over and over again, loads of fun. I've also been roaming around with my camera this morning while Crocky was at choir practice. The transformation is incredible, everybody is literally running around smiling.
Back at school, a friend and I used to say that snow was a youth potion, generally about -10 years because it makes normally half-ways grown-up grammar school students from 13th grade run amok, throwing snowballs at everything in sight.
Lots of people are building snowmen outside - and not only children, but also a lot of older people. There are two men well in their forties who had a lot of fun building a snowman in the park.
Even the servicemen who are cleaning the stairs to all official buildings, including the chapel, are also engaging in snowball fights while doing it, it's incredible.
Just behind the entrance of the park, there was a couple of Jamaican exchange students who were absolutely overjoyed because this is actually the first time they've ever seen snow.
They asked everybody in sight to take their picture in front of the grandeur of the Kelvingrove park, who is also particularly beautiful today, or ran around snowball fighting or building a snowman.
"The river looks so much prettier with the snow covering up the trolleys!"
It does! The Kelvingrove park is just absolutely awesome - the trees covered in garlands of snow, the river is double it's usual size and looks so pretty among the snow-covered trees... *happy sigh*
The weather meant, of course, that there were even less people who could make it to the service.
The treasurer of the Choral Society, sadly can't remember his name, and I were alone.
"We'll have to spread out and make the congregation look bigger," he said. When the service started, we were four people. And the chapel choir. Tehe.
After the service, they went outside to take an official team photo of the chapel choir in their gowned glory in the snow, but since the team wasn't really up for a team picture in the snow but more for a snowball fight, it ended with everybody getting wet feet, in some cases trying to hit James with a snowball and lots of cute choristers trying to hide behind each other in their gowns while running around snowballing each other.
They're off to a concert in Edinburgh now. Here's hoping they make it on time.
I guess I'll toddle off home in a moment to finish my Psy essay.
I hope you have a lovely day!
Oh - PS - Concert yesterday went reasonably well. The others were good, I wasn't, but that was more or less to be expected. Some things did not work out as planned because we didn't really rehearse them, and that was also clear. The music was wonderful of course, and the Kelvin Ensemble did a wonderful, wonderful job.
With the choir, there were a few things which did not go as planned.
The order in which we were to sit or stand, for example. We only rehearsed that once, but since her signs could have been clearer, it did not really work out that well. At one point especially we had the entire choir bobbing up and down in their seats because no one knew whether we were to sit or stand. Gah.
On the whole, however, we did have a great evening, and, as Marjorie said right after the final rehearsal, it was about making good music - and that's what we did, so I guess we can be quite pleased with ourselves.
We've got snow today, and while marching through the six inches which had covered everything over night, I felt as though I was seeing it for the first time, maybe because I didn't mind it. It is so incredibly beautiful!
All the university is swarming with people taking the same pictures over and over again, loads of fun. I've also been roaming around with my camera this morning while Crocky was at choir practice. The transformation is incredible, everybody is literally running around smiling.
Back at school, a friend and I used to say that snow was a youth potion, generally about -10 years because it makes normally half-ways grown-up grammar school students from 13th grade run amok, throwing snowballs at everything in sight.
Lots of people are building snowmen outside - and not only children, but also a lot of older people. There are two men well in their forties who had a lot of fun building a snowman in the park.
Even the servicemen who are cleaning the stairs to all official buildings, including the chapel, are also engaging in snowball fights while doing it, it's incredible.
Just behind the entrance of the park, there was a couple of Jamaican exchange students who were absolutely overjoyed because this is actually the first time they've ever seen snow.
They asked everybody in sight to take their picture in front of the grandeur of the Kelvingrove park, who is also particularly beautiful today, or ran around snowball fighting or building a snowman.
"The river looks so much prettier with the snow covering up the trolleys!"
It does! The Kelvingrove park is just absolutely awesome - the trees covered in garlands of snow, the river is double it's usual size and looks so pretty among the snow-covered trees... *happy sigh*
The weather meant, of course, that there were even less people who could make it to the service.
The treasurer of the Choral Society, sadly can't remember his name, and I were alone.
"We'll have to spread out and make the congregation look bigger," he said. When the service started, we were four people. And the chapel choir. Tehe.
After the service, they went outside to take an official team photo of the chapel choir in their gowned glory in the snow, but since the team wasn't really up for a team picture in the snow but more for a snowball fight, it ended with everybody getting wet feet, in some cases trying to hit James with a snowball and lots of cute choristers trying to hide behind each other in their gowns while running around snowballing each other.
They're off to a concert in Edinburgh now. Here's hoping they make it on time.
I guess I'll toddle off home in a moment to finish my Psy essay.
I hope you have a lovely day!
Oh - PS - Concert yesterday went reasonably well. The others were good, I wasn't, but that was more or less to be expected. Some things did not work out as planned because we didn't really rehearse them, and that was also clear. The music was wonderful of course, and the Kelvin Ensemble did a wonderful, wonderful job.
With the choir, there were a few things which did not go as planned.
The order in which we were to sit or stand, for example. We only rehearsed that once, but since her signs could have been clearer, it did not really work out that well. At one point especially we had the entire choir bobbing up and down in their seats because no one knew whether we were to sit or stand. Gah.
On the whole, however, we did have a great evening, and, as Marjorie said right after the final rehearsal, it was about making good music - and that's what we did, so I guess we can be quite pleased with ourselves.