Cue the Frank Sinatra (or Hawksley Workman): There was snow on the ground when I woke up today ... in Johannesburg ... South Africa.
According to the papers, it's the first time it's snowed in Jo'burg in 26 years.
There are more photos here.
In terms of Canadian snowfalls, it was the kind we'd get in early fall or late spring, but here, people were going crazy. They were taking photos and, like, taking turns posing with the snow. It was pretty hilarious. I also saw three cars needing boosts on my walk home from work (the snow was all gone by then, though). It made me laugh.
This seasonal switch thing is messing with my head, though.
So I guess this is my first post. This weird day seems like the perfect way to start.
I've been here for a little over a month now, so I figured it was time I got my act together on this thing. I promise to provide a real introduction later ... and I promise to blog regularly from now on.
Photos of where I live will be posted very soon. Exciting, I know.
Tonight looks like it'll be a cold one; I better crank my space heater up to 11.
BK
ps - That headline was so good I had to steal it.
3 comments:
ummm i don't know how comments work, because i don't understand blogs. but here goes:
hahaha snow sucks.
you should teach them all how to use that scraper thing on their windshields, or shovel their walks, or whatever it is ontarians do for fun when it snows.
has your landlord still not turned on your heat??
you know, i've been like stalking this empty blog called addicted to ubuntu for a month. FINALLY. jeeze man.
xoxo
andrew/teddy
Anna - I actually like scraping my windshield. My favourite is scraping my windshield in an arena parking lot. Turned on the heat? There's no heat. It's so fuckin' weird; they have winter'ish weather here but nobody has any kind of central heating. Everybody just buys space heaters. But I guess it makes sense when you consider that during the day, the temperatures jump up to 15 or 20 degrees.
But yeah, I was scoffing at the people boosting their cars. I guess I felt like every non-Torontonian in Canada that time Mel Lastman called the army in to help remove the snow.
Teddy - Yeah, you got to see the "working title." I changed it when I moved here and realized that most people imprison themselves behind razorwire and guard dogs and electric fences and barred windows and whatever else they can do to separate themselves from other people. It felt a little too cute and a little too naive to continue to call this thing "Addicted to ubuntu." I'm just in love with the ubuntu concept is all.
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