Et il y a neige

Finally! The first snow since December! It rained like crazy all day yesterday and then finally started snowing in the evening, we got about an inch down by the lake, so the mountains most likely got a ton, I'm excited to go snowboarding this weekend. The snow is perfect too, nice and pack-y, great for snowballs. This detail was not passed over by the kids at school. Whenever you don't have a class, you are supposed to go to étude (study hall). The étude for première is in the lycée building, its a nice long room filled with lots of desks in rows, one wall is all windows. As I was in étude today a group of boys kept running past the windows slamming them with snowballs. The 80+ kids in the room were laughing like crazy, it was a nice break from the monotony. Then, later, after étude, people stood outside and threw snowballs down the première hallway, as far as they could go. Between classes the halls are jammed with kids, talking, waiting for teachers, etc. The sky was raining snowballs, everyone was screaming and laughing and picking them up and throwing them. My class was the last to go into class and when everybody else had left we could see that the floor was soaking wet and covered with melting snow.