As I was sitting at home in the coastal region of North
Carolina it occurred to me... Winter breaks ends in two days, and I leave for
State College tomorrow. This epiphany
was full of mixed emotions, I love State College and the whole area but I also liked
the sixty-degrees and sunny weather in North Carolina. I knew State College had lucked out so far
with a very mild winter, but I have never experienced a northern winter, so it
still felt cold to me. I knew eventually
State Colleges luck would run out.
I stepped out of my plan onto the flight deck at Harrisburg
International airport the temperature was bellow freezing... big shock for
me. For my flight back to PSU I had to
fly into Harrisburg, which is about two hours south of PSU because all the
flights into the State College airports were booked- due to a bunch of other
last minutes traveler heading back to PSU from winter break.
To my surprise when I arrived at PSU Sunday night there was
still no snow to be seen. Living in the
south my whole life we would once in a while have a snow flurry but nothing
would ever stick. That would change on
Tuesday when I experienced my first snow storm.
It was a pretty magnificent sight especially when the snow stopped
falling and everything was covered in a white layer of unmolested snow.
The arrival of winter and snow has allowed skiing mountains to
start making snow, which is something I am looking forward to trying. It is
amazing how snow changes the look of your environment the same way fall does
when all the tree lose their leaves. I
am always left feeling like I am lost, it can be in some place I have been a
thousand time and everything just looks and feels different. It will be fun to explore Central Pennsylvania
with this new feeling of winter and at some point snow that will stick
around.
My Passion blog is about the activities I enjoy off the
campus of Penn State. As freshman
college students at PSU we are all in a bubble I call college life. We have almost everything we need on campus
or downtown. I explore what there is to
do beyond the college bubble. To me the
surrounding area hear at PSU is such a fun place to explore with all the
natural beauty one could ask for. Most
of my blog post are about outdoor activities. With the nature of the outdoor
this time of year I will be having a lot of cold weather adventures. 