My first snow

I've never lived anywhere where it snows so this was a whole new experience.
February 2018

Snow can be beautiful to look at, but trying and work and live a normal life in it can be difficult. 

The last thing I want to do is break something.  

Kids love it because they get to play in it and school is cancelled.

This was the biggest snow in Yixing in 10 years.

MY COMMUNITY - XIA ZHANG HUA YUAN

(pronounced sha jung hwa yuen)

I woke up to my first view of real snow from my bedroom window.

Below - stepping out the front door to go to work

and looking around

The washing still needs to be done

THE WALK TO WORK

Mmmm - it's getting slippery

The roads have been cleared 

I had to take a photo of this woman's shoes at the bus stop.  

How can she walk in the snow in high heels? 

WORK

The view from the front door of Ba Bai Ban 

(the Mall where work is)

Not a great view at the best of times

Start work at 1pm and work until 9pm. 

 We can't see outside, so you don't quite know what we will be walking out into.

And here it is below, the view outside after work.  Think this was the night of the blizzard.  No taxis or buses came so we ended up walking home.

Below Ba Bai Ban

THE WALK HOME

And when it's snowing, it didn't seem so cold.  It was when the snow started to melt that it was freezing.

Below - kids in my community playing in the snow.

Below, Yixing high speed train station