i woke up to a full 5cm of snow this morning! in my 2 1/2 years here, this is only the third or fourth time it has snow enough to leave a nice white layer on the ground. . . the first time the snow has been hard enough to pack into snowballs and [portable] snowmen. . . and the first time i have been able to have a snowball fight with my kids. . . when armed with very hard snow, elementary second graders become quite dangerous. . .
snow here, however, almost always melts by noon . . .this is fortunate because i am going to watch a performance piece by jan fabre at the art museum in kochi tonight (and seeing as how kochi has never heard of a snow plow, i would not be going if the sun had not come out). . . yet it is unfortunate due to the fact that it snows so little here that it seems a shame to have it all disappear in four hours. . .
