Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful

It is snowing. Again. So NKU has declared a snow day. Again.

And it is not the only institution that is closed for the day, the weather page I follow lists over 200 closings in the Cincinnati area. I am not too excited about it though, as I have no classes today. It is actually a bit inconvenient, as my beloved Starbucks is closed and the student cafeteria is offering no late night food services. Tomorrow is however a good day for a snow day, so;

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Valentine's

My RA (Resident Assistant) is of the creative sort and my floor is therefore always nicely decorated. For Valentine's she cut out hearts to stick on everyone's doors. She also cut out names to glue on to the hearts - ten points for effort. I helped by constructively laughing at bad colour combinations.

The little bags have been there for a few days now and they keep on being filled with various sweets. Pity Valentine's is almost over.

Year of the Tiger

Happy Lunar New Year! The Asian Student Association threw a combined Valentine's and new year’s party on Friday. Most of the evening was spent munching on free food, gathering fortune cookies and, in my case, trying to avoid participating in various games and karaoke singing.

After the party, I managed to get a group of people to join me watching the opening ceremony at the family restaurant Buffalo Wild Wings.


It took some lobbying to convince people to come, but most people seemed to enjoy watching it once we were there. The parade with all the countries was a particular hit, as we had quite a few nationalities represented in our group. Some of the people from the warmer countries even discovered that they also had an athlete, or two, participating in the games.

Preparing for Valentine's

I am busy decorating cookies, cutting out hearts and writing cute, little notes. Valentine's is serious business in the States and the campus is booming in red and pink. The student diner had cookie decorating and Cupid bow and arrow shooting on the program today. Everyone mocked my cookie-decorating skills, but at least it made a pretty decent picture.

Snow Day

"Northern Kentucky University is closed on Tuesday, Feb. 9, due to inclement weather. All day and evening classes are cancelled beginning at 9:30 a.m."

It is snowing. The weather forecast says "winter storm" and "snow emergencies", whatever that is. Personally, I think the term storm is used a little loosely. From what I can gather it seems to mean "snow that stays on the ground". I am not complaining though. I think this is the first time I have gotten a weather-related day off, unless you count the time in Hong Kong we got to leave class early because of a tropical cyclone warning.

I am a little puzzled by why they chose to close it as late as 9.30am though, as it was pretty evident that they would end up closing judging from what they normally do during this type of weather. I definitely feel for my flatmate who had an 8am class.

The University owns at least four of these snow ploughs, so it is not like the concept of snow is something new.