Wednesday, November 29, 2006

That aint cold!

You haven't truly experienced Saskatchewan until you've experienced a winter here.
Its SO different here from BC. Beyond the obvious lack of mountains, straight roads, and amazing sunsets, lies the most experiential experience you'll ever have. Honestly, its worth it. The last few days its the mercury has been dropping steadily and the wind has been picking up speed.
You'd think that -21C with a wind chill of -36 would be miserably cold, but its weird, I don't think so. And its not just me either, one of my friends doesn't bother to put on a jacket or an extra sweater when walking to class from the dorm, and its important to note that he likes wearing t-shirts.
My theory is that between 1 and -10 your body is shocked by the freezing temps and begins to revolt. Even if you add wind chill in there, as long as the base temperature is between 1 and -10, you're going to feel COLD. Now once it dips below -12, your body has gotten used to this abuse and begins to think that this is normal. So now cold doesn't really feel miserably cold, its just cold. NOT to say that walking out half naked won't hurt me as long as I don't feel miserably cold, it just means that I have to remember to dress warmer .
But back to experiences, when I got back to the dorm from Musical practice, I had this strange feeling that although i didn't fully enjoy the walk back with blowing snow in my face and no jacket, I had to go back out. And I did. Twice. Once just to check the mail to see if a letter from a friend had arrived. (I was saddened to find out that it hadn't yet) And then once to spend an hour shoveling snow. I really need to go to bed now and my room mate is getting a bit peeved at me for typing while he's trying to sleep. But I'll log back in to talk about frozen stuff, like nose hair, facial hair, head hair, snow, snow, snow, snow, wind, and other stuff i experienced while being outside tonight. Love you all.

2 comments:

MamaS said...

Sorry, I hate the extreme cold. The colder it is the more I hate it. So your mention of frozen hair made me think about your next haircut appt. Your appt. has been set and your favorite stylist will be in! :)
Grateful to be above -15,
S

SharpSticks said...

Oh, *happy sigh*...

Someone is cutting your hair? Now I can put away the wax...