My First Winter In Canada

                                                 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.