Brrrrrrr.......
Well, winter has finally arrived here in Novomoskovsk...it hit us a few days ago with single digit temperatures and the thermometer hasn't moved much since. I got up this morning and looked to see it was a cool 0 degees F... just like home in New England. I don't mind the cold, as long as it stays OUTside. Unfortunately, the school where I teach is anything BUT warm. It was so cold in there today and yesterday they closed early. As a matter of fact, the school will be closed from now until next tuesday. We have central heating in the building, but the windows are old and HUGE. They have these great big gorgeous windows that do nothing to keep out the cold. All of the faculty were shivering and half of the student body stayed home today. My first class had only 2 students, and the second and third had 5 each.
I'm actually really grateful to be able to stay home. I've been sick for a few weeks and although I feel better, I have a nastly viral infection in my sinuses and cannot hear very well. Everything sounds as if I am underwater. This made for an interesting challenge when teaching my classes. I will be traveling to Kiev next week for dentist and doctor appointments and hopefully they can figure out how to help me with this.
My apartment is at the opposite end of the spectrum. It's toasty warm so no complaints here, but for the fact that I don't dare put on my outside gear until I am ready to walk out the door or I'll pass out with the heat. It's a process that takes about 5 minutes because there are so many layers to put on. I keep forgetting to figure in the time it takes to suit up to leave for work in the morning and find myself running behind schedule quite often. One thing I'm happy about however...I don't have to clean the snow off the car.
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