The First Snow of the Year!

Actually, although it is now the "cold" season in Hyderabad, it is still too hot to believe. So, last weekend the SIP Guesthouse manager Mr. Das, some of the other SIP students, and I went to Snow World. Yes, Snow World! This is a theme park time attraction where Indians can go to experience snow for the first time. They give you coats, gloves, wool socks, and boots. Then they unleash you in a room full of fake snow. The Indians were going crazy! It was more fun to watch them than to play in the snow that was really more like ice shavings. At the end of the hour I was frozen to the bone - and it was only 45 degrees in there! That's proof that I'm going to freeze to death when I get back to hanging out in hockey rinks in NY.

P.S. - Snow in Hindi is बर्फ (pronounced 'barf'). So it could be said that we went on an excursion to Barf World.