[caption id="attachment_693" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The view from my Sofia University Classroom"]<img class="size-full wp-image-693" title="Snow and Sofia University " src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc05552.jpg" alt="The view from my Sofia University Classroom" width="500" height="375" />[/caption]

We've got centimeters of snow here in Sofia.  One of my students at Sofia University told me this recently.  It's true.  But I couldn't help laughing inside when I heard it.

I would say that over the last two days we've gotten between 10 and 12 inches of snow.  It's more or less snowed for two days straight.  In my book, that means I can say whether or not it's exactly 100% true that we've got a foot of snow on the ground.<!--more-->

In my very American mind, this sounds like much, much more snow than centimeters of snow.  Certainly it's not incorrect to say that we've got centimeters of snow but it just sounds so funny to me.  It's clearly because the metric system is funny and foreign to me.  I've grown up thinking of centimeters a much smaller than inches.  Is that true? Well yes but size and perception of size changes the older--centimeters used to be in my mind very, very small and inches--well inches--so now that I am an adult, I know exactly how many centimeters are in an inch but it still makes me giggle to hear the huge amount of snow we have collected on every outside surface in Sofia described in centimeters.

I realize that I've now just written an entire post on my musing on snow.  Hopefully I'll be able to write about something more interesting tomorrow.  This said, they say that you should write abut what you know and man with this much snow, I've been thinking about it, studying it and hoping that I wont fall down in it so if that doesn't make me qualified to write this post I don't know what does.

One final thought, my cousin wrote recently that living is Moscow is like living in a giant snow globe.  I couldn't agree more after the two snowy, blustery days I've had here in Sofia.  I can't help but think about those poor snow globe figures--forever trapped in a wintry landscape (wintry can also be spelled wintery according to the <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wintry" target="_blank">Merriam Webster Dictionary</a> see reading this blog is also making you smarter).  Luckily spring is around the corner.  I hope.