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This is a blog for my Walt Whitman High School ESOL 3 and ESOL Lab students. The blog will let us communicate with each other and share our work. As soon as you send me your email address, I can give you permission to contribute stories, photos, and videos. Tell us about your experiences this past week. Describe your neighborhood, and show us pictures of your yard, house, or apartment. Tell us about some of the challenges you've faced during these incredible winter storms!
What a huge storm we passed! I haven't seen such a storm in my country (Iran). It was about 8:00 am, Feb. 6, 2010, when I woke up, and I was freezing. I ran downstairs quickly, and I saw my parents and my sister were huddling around the chimney. I noticed that we didn't have power, and the heater was off. We tried to call my uncle's family who live near our neighborhood. Fortunately, they had electric power, and their house was warm. Then we attempted to shovel the snow on our doorway to be able to drive to their house. But the tremendous amount of the snow didn't let us to do this. It was about 6:00 pm, when we still were at home without light. The bad point was that it was getting dark at home, so I couldn't do my homework anymore. We just had candles and lanterns to illuminate the house, but we didn't know how long this condition would take. The time for sleep arrived, and we still were trying to get more woods to burn, and use their warmth. Finally, my mom, my sister and I slept around the fire, however my dad was putting woods in the fireplace until we got the power tomorrow in the morning. I hope we won't be caught in another storm during this school year.
ReplyDeleteToday, February 10, I woke up early in the morning and went to look at the window with my dog. I surprised that everything was white!! I couldn't see trees, cars, people, and roads. Even though the wind seemed strong, my dog, Lucky, wanted to go outside because he loves snow so much. Finally, father, mother, and I decided to go out and we wore so many clothes. When we opened the door, the wind came into my house with snow!! We couldn't move forward. So we gave up. It was lucky that we didn't lose any power during the snow days. I hope that we won't have so many days to go to school during spring break or summer break.
ReplyDeleteApproximately, 35 inches has fallen through three days. This snows gave me a great shock. First of all, I had no idea how to clean the snows in front of our garage. My brother and I tried to clean the snows but it was really tough for us to clean that inches of snows. I gave up to clean the snows for two days. However, yesterday, I was really surprised that the snow was neatly cleaned by someone. I was dumbfounded at the cleaned place which was supposed to be filled with snows. I guessed that someone just cleaned it up and tried to require money. However, there was noone to do that unless people who's really needy. I finally noticed that the people who cleaned snows. That was our neighbor. As soon as I noticed, I felt really thankful for them. I personally met them and said thank you. I didn't know what to say. It's just grateful. I think I could realize the neighbor's warm consideration and kindness through this blizzard.
ReplyDelete(Actually,it's second time that I had some help from neighbors. I'm shameless with my neighbors....)