Winter? Nooooooooooo!!

Winter is coming. It is very obvious. I've started turning my heater on at night...and with the rains (that seem to come every 3ish days) more and more snow appears on the mountains in the distance. I can just imagine the snow caps moving closer and closer...until that fateful morning I wake up to snow on the ground. People here are predicting mid-October for first "real" snow. Am I prepared for that? I sure as hell don't know. It's going to be a surprise for sure.

I'm not quite sure what to expect having never lived in snow before. Sure I've been in snow...do the Crawfords remember that Christmas YEARS ago...that we spent at Northstar? And sure I've been camping a lot in the snow (which is very awesome mind you). But these have all been fleeting times...a day, a week, a night...and not much more than that. Here...it is serious snow.

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Well, I just got off the phone with the folks...yay! It had been a while since I heard their voices (too long if you ask me) and it was great to talk to them. We set up some tenative plans for things...for the end of the semester, for Christmas, and for me returning to the states for my internship.

Things are still a bit up in the air here but this is a basic idea of how things will work...
-Graduation on December 14th
-Vacate the room by December 16th
-Travel around Europe with parents through Christmas
-Return to the states before the 1st
-Head to New York in early January to do my stage (internship)

I might go to Chicago for my final 2 semesters...I might now. Again these are tenative plans.

We shall see!