Hi my dear readers,
Currently I'm sitting in my corridor hallway doing my homework underneath an emergency light. We haven't had power in three days; it is as if I'm camping indoors. This mess started on Saturday, when the entire East Coast was hit by a freak-snowstorm! Suddenly, it started snowing like crazy, at least 30cm of snow fell from the sky. It messed up the power lines, and now 85% of Connecticut is left without any power, including my school. We have one generator, and the plugs only work in one room. You should see that room: filled with extension chord, after extension chord, after extension chord. Everyone is loading up their computers. Food is becoming scarce, and we have to do with only a couple hours of daylight since the winter is coming around. First of all, it made me realize that indeed we are very, VERY, dependent on power, and light, computers, etc. Second of all, it made me a little scared also; are we really messing with the world to much? Mother nature obviously is hating us right now.. Hurricane after hurricane, earthquake after earthquake, snow storm, after snow storm. What's going on?! Unlike all the other New-England prep schools, my school doesn't have any sympathy; we are not getting the day off, we do not get to go home. We have to stay in a 100 year old boarding school without power + cold showers.. We are still having classes tomorrow in the dark..What is this?! Everyone's upset & confused & doing their homework in the hallway where there is some sort of light at night. I am just stunned by this extreme weather, never experienced that in the Netherlands! I'm also stunned by how dependent on internet we are, it's nuts! We become beasts when trying to plug in our computers! Crazyness... what has our world come to??
I love you guys, and be safe okay?
I'll be updating more often.
Love, Laura.
Currently I'm sitting in my corridor hallway doing my homework underneath an emergency light. We haven't had power in three days; it is as if I'm camping indoors. This mess started on Saturday, when the entire East Coast was hit by a freak-snowstorm! Suddenly, it started snowing like crazy, at least 30cm of snow fell from the sky. It messed up the power lines, and now 85% of Connecticut is left without any power, including my school. We have one generator, and the plugs only work in one room. You should see that room: filled with extension chord, after extension chord, after extension chord. Everyone is loading up their computers. Food is becoming scarce, and we have to do with only a couple hours of daylight since the winter is coming around. First of all, it made me realize that indeed we are very, VERY, dependent on power, and light, computers, etc. Second of all, it made me a little scared also; are we really messing with the world to much? Mother nature obviously is hating us right now.. Hurricane after hurricane, earthquake after earthquake, snow storm, after snow storm. What's going on?! Unlike all the other New-England prep schools, my school doesn't have any sympathy; we are not getting the day off, we do not get to go home. We have to stay in a 100 year old boarding school without power + cold showers.. We are still having classes tomorrow in the dark..What is this?! Everyone's upset & confused & doing their homework in the hallway where there is some sort of light at night. I am just stunned by this extreme weather, never experienced that in the Netherlands! I'm also stunned by how dependent on internet we are, it's nuts! We become beasts when trying to plug in our computers! Crazyness... what has our world come to??
I love you guys, and be safe okay?
I'll be updating more often.
Love, Laura.
