My First Winter In Canada
Living in a tropical
country, we always dreamed of seeing and feeling the winter. How nice it would
be to live in a country with four seasons, not just rain and summer. I
heard from my classmate who lives in Vancouver that Saskatchewan has one
of the most extreme temperatures in Canada, from -40 to -60 degrees with the
windchill.
My classmate also told
me to get a nice jacket because there are about five months to suffer of the
cold weather.
I can't believe that I
am actually here. How long I have been dreaming of coming to Canada. The
long wait is over and I am actually here! The wide streets, the quiet
neighbourhoods, and the houses that are almost alike and painted mostly with
earthy tones.it seems every house is new, the spacing of their houses so evenly
distributed, the clean streets and yards, the smell of the grass, and no
traffic and horns to be heard. It’s incredible! Everything is new! And I was excited
to explore more than what I had seen at that moment.
Months passed. I’m adjusting
to the new culture, new house, new friends, new work, new directions, and new
bus schedules. For newcomers who don't know anyone and feel lonely, you could
just block your loneliness for hours and indulge in books. But then, I was
getting excited waiting for winter. I heard people complaining that winter was coming.
My cousin always told me to make myself practice driving. Winter was fast approaching,
and it is so hard to catch the bus outside.
One day my cousin
called her husband to drive her to work because it was snowing heavily outside.
It was October 30, 2010.It was the first time I saw the snow. When the
snow stopped falling, my cousin told me to go outside. Wear your winter
jacket, bonnet, gloves, and boots! We are going to shovel the driveway. I
was so excited to step on the cottonlike snow. I was amazed to see how God
really created a beautiful world to live in. I saw the snow in each flake. It
was beautiful! Amazing how He created the snow with a crystal spider-like form.
What was God thinking?! Why does He need to create this kind of form when He could
have only created plain white balls as snow? Oh, how lucky these people are
that they could experience winter and the other seasons while in my own country
there are lots of calamities of nature that cause great and often sudden damage.
Now, I was stepping on
the snow like cotton candy. They’re drifting away one by one. It was a dream
come true.
