It's snowy, snowy, snowy in Sofia. Basically since the start of the new year we've been stuck in a cycle of: Hey it's snowing!! Gosh the snow is pretty. Man this melting snow is gross. Then we get  a day or two sans snow and dreams of spring dance through our minds only to be greeted again with snow.

This week though it just snowed and snowed.

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I'd guess it snowed for nearly 24 hours. At school we probably ended up with 12 inches of snow. The poor maintenance men shoveled our sidewalks endlessly so while the rest of the city is mired in snow we have nearly clear side walks and piles of snow.

Campus is beautiful. A winter wonderland if you will.  The snow has cast a layer of white on every available surface and at times like these that it's difficult to believe that we're actually in Sofia.

Everything else? Well it's hard to enjoy Mladost when you're trying to make your way through inches of grey-brown slush on the sidewalks, climbing on the crowded buses and trying to fall down on un-shoveled stairs.

Of course, as luck would have it, there's no warmer weather in sight. Just frozen slush. The temperatures are supposedly dropping into the -12 to -15 C range. It's going to be cold outside. The school is worried enough about the weather that we're having a half hour delay for finals week. Rather than starting at 9am, we're beginning finals next week at 9:30am.