It appears that I recently witnessed a very rare event here in Osnabruck: a snowstorm of more than a couple inches. I was actually in Wolfsburg for most of the day and missed some of the fun, but apparently the power went out several times for up to an hour at a time. Dr. HP Bischof (Our RIT study abroad coordinator) was in his hotel when it happened and he claimed that in eight years of living in Osnabrück he had never experienced a power outage of more than a couple minutes (kind of amusing for someone who has endured several-day power outages back home). Guess that explains why nobody did a damn thing about the snow, either. It’s still everywhere five days afterwards. I can’t say it was bad for everyone, though. Snowmen were everywhere the day after the storm and I had the urge to play in the snow, too. So Kevin and I headed to Heger Tor (where there’s a 15-foot high stone balcony with a 30-foot ramp leading up to it) where I had the brilliant idea of rolling a gigantic snowball down the ramp to collect into a ridiculously huge one at the bottom. Unfortunately one side of the ramp had been shovelled, and when I pushed the behemoth down it rolled to the right, jumped off one of the small stairs and smashed into four pieces on the stone. Bummer.

Thus we have unfinished business. Bring on another snowstorm!