I was horrified! From my sunny home in Arizona, this looked like a totally different planet to me. It was hard to imagine my friends and family were really experiencing this kind of weather while I could step outside in a T-shirt to check how the jalapeno pepper plant on my stoop was growing. I worried about traveling home for the holidays. A wild ice storm might tear the wings off of my plane, which would then burst into flame mid-air and crash horribly to the ground. Or my dad's car could get buried in a snow drift on the way to pick me up at Logan airport. Or I might be lucky enough to make it home, only to get snowed in with my family. Stuck indoors, we'd die of starvation, and cobwebs would grow on our skeletons sitting by the fireplace with its stockings hung there with care.
On the phone, I told Sarah I was scared of coming home to all this snow. "Suz!" she scolded me, "you grew up here!" She was right that I was being ridiculous, of course. I made it home just fine and had a lovely Christmas with my family. The weather has actually been pretty mild, and even sunny my first few days here. Yesterday, my dad and I went cross-country skiing and snowshoeing respectively through the woods behind our house. We went over snow-covered eskers and past bubbling brooks, crossed those New England stone walls and through open pastures. It was beautiful! Now there's a fun outdoor activity you can't do in Tucson.
You can take the girl out of New England, and she might think New England is taken out of her.... until she comes home for a visit and remembers the totally different kind of beauty belonging to this place.
Incidentally, I g-chatted with another friend named Sarah today, who is a Tucson native and spending her Xmas there. She said that yesterday, it snowed in Tucson!
2 comments:
Yay! I'm glad you sacked up, Suz! That sounds like a totally beautiful ski with your dad. I will see you soon!
OH MY look at all that S-N-O-W....i missed all the snow in Pittsburgh. it melted before i got there and snowed only after I left :>/ sounds like a skiing trip to north or east AZ is much needed for me! apparently there is so much snow on Mtn. Lemmon and so many tucsonians going there, that the police blocked the road yesterday. They were saying that the mtn couldnt hold any more people! craziness!! see you soon for a pre-semester "de-icing" PaRtY.
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