Mmmm, the two most precious words any student could ever hear.. snow day. Snow days growing up in Texas were all too seldom, maybe one every few years if we were fortunate enough. I will never forget the excitement that came with waking up at 6 o'clock in the morning, watching the news channels and anxiously staring at the scrolling screen at the bottom listing closed schools. "Dallas, Decatur, Denison.. DENTON!" For me and many others, snow days meant staying in my pajamas from sunrise to sunset and watching daytime television with my Mom. Living in the Texas heat, we never really had an abundance of warm clothes, so we had to improvise by extreme layering and wearing socks on our hands when it came to snow man building time. Snow days are fun, but the pictures are not! My sister and I always looked so ridiculous in whatever warm clothes my mom had dressed us in. The trick was not to make us look cute, but to make sure the clothes we were wearing could stand a harsh winter beating. After two Texas girls attempted to make snowmen the best way we knew how, we'd come back in, strip down at the front door where my mom would collect our dirty clothes and shoes, and then we'd just relax the rest of the day. It was every child's dream day, and I'm glad I have such good memories to look back on. No one on this earth could convince me that snow days have anything to do with weather or science. Snow days are God saying, "Take a break. Make some memories. Take silly pictures."
It's kind of funny, whenever I heard that OSU was having a snow day tomorrow the first thing that came to mind is, "YES! I can study all day!"
I still plan on wearing my pajamas all day though.
-Caramie
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