Message to the UK: The World Is Not Ending

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As my friends and family back home may have heard, we've got a bit of weather here in the UK. A bit of snow, to be more specific. And while I'm thrilled to have snow, let me be quite clear Mother Nature: This isn't enough to make up for the white Christmas I missed back home. Try again, please.

The snow wreaked havoc in London, according to the news I've seen online. Heathrow was closed for a bit, buses were shut down for the day, many of the trains from Coventry to London were canceled. But here in Coventry, sadly, the snow fell beautifully, then melted immediately for most of the day. Around 4:30 I went for a walk around the town and maybe a half an inch had stuck to some surfaces... but I wanted 4, 5, 6, heck, 10 inches. Come on, Mother Nature, help a girl out (note of clarification- it looks like more than that in the Cathedral ruins. Yeah, probably is. But no one walked on it all day- it was roped off. That doesn't count. The rest of the city wasn't like that!!!).

I went to the Rotary Club of Coventry again today (you may remember that I presented to them last week!). Today's speaker was the Vice Chancellor of my university, so they invited me back to hear her presentation. It was very kind of them to invite me back. I had a wonderful time simply getting there- according to Google Maps, it is only 0.8 miles from my flat. An easy walk- and the large snowflakes that walked with me were wonderful. Makes the city so much more beautiful! It snowed a bit harder on the walk back home afterwards- that's where most of the photos are from.

I'm going to a play on Wednesday evening with some of the RC of Coventry members who kindly invited me at today's meeting. I know I've said this before, but it's certainly worth repeating: my year here has been so greatly enhanced by my connection to Rotary- the opportunities I've had have been amazing and the people are wonderful and generous.

Next Monday I'm one of several speakers at a Rotary event called the World Understanding Evening. The other speakers are other Ambassadorial Scholars in our district. Some of the people who will be there have heard my presentation before, so I'm working on another revision of it. It needs to be much shorter as there are several speakers- and I've decided to go heavy on photos, and insert my first video into this presentation. If you're reading this and planning on attending the event on Monday, don't watch the video below- it'll spoil my presentation! If you won't make it... watch away. :-) hehe. Nice introduction to Gig Harbor, don't you think?