I woke up this morning dreaming of a snow day.

I tweeted about it: Why don't we get snow days in Sofia?

I got this response: Takes a lot more snow than that. We're quite the pertinatious people :D (<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/muiiio" target="_blank">@muiiio</a>)

I did what anyone would do in my situation. I bought a coffee and I got to work.

I taught all day. I went to my Bulgarian lesson and then I got busy grading some last minute student work and finalizing my semester grades.  At 6pm, I was still at school and I happened to check my google reader. I stumbled on this gem in the Sofia Echo: <a href="http://sofiaecho.com/2012/02/07/1761375_winter-weather-crisis-bulgaria-closes-all-schools-for-three-days?ref=rss" target="_blank">Winter weather crisis, closes Sofia schools for three days</a>! Um, what?!

Then I checked my school email. Turns out I should have done that at 5pm when we were emailed about the school closure.

Why is that do you ask?

Oh, because I would have stopped working immediately and I would have gone home right away. That's why.

The email instructs us that while the kids aren't coming in for school for three days because of the bad weather and unsafe road conditions as teachers we're still expected to go to school!! <em>Awesome</em>. Who does that?!

However very generously we were told that for these three days we don't have go to school until 9am and we can leave at 3pm.

Lucky us.

Oh these snow days are cruel.