LA NEIGE

It snowed yesterday. A lot.
It isn't supposed to snow in the South of France at all, so when we got like 10 INCHES of snow yesterday, it was quite surprising, and the entire region has come to a grinding halt. There are no salt trucks, I don't even know if they sell rock salt anywhere for people to salt sidewalks and driveways themselves. There are no snow plows, possibly not even snow shovels, and no one has chains for the tires of their cars.
Not only have trains, buses, and flights been canceled and stopped running, but the actual stations and airports have been full-out closed, ruining people's travel plans for their European extravaganzas, ruining plans to go back to the United States...oh and the Fac is closed. As in, exams on January 7th and 8th have been cancelled, as have exams on the 9th and 10th. Four days of exams have been cancelled and I have no idea how they plan on rescheduling them, which is rather stressful. I was hoping to have the art history exams over and done with by this time today, but unfortunately, I have those to look forward to when I get back from Strasbourg, assuming I'll make it there tomorrow.
The entire university system in the Aix-Marseille area has been shut down, and all of the offices are closed, and the only means we have of getting updated about exam schedules is by a 2-sentence blurb in bolded red font at the top of the university web-site that gets updated every few hours or so. Ay carumba.
I think this is the first time that I've been annoyed when it snowed. I think I might have been excited for about 30 seconds when I woke up, and then I remembered that it's not supposed to snow here and that no one knows how to deal with snow, that no one's prepared for snow and then I got annoyed. Bleh. At least it's beautiful to look at while I study for an indefinite period of time for exams that I was supposed to take this morning.