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今日は、高校の卒業式があったみたいで花束を持った学生と出会いました。
だいぶ暖かくなってきましたね。
Chrisは、桜が咲くのを心待ちにしているようです。
少しずつ暖かくなる季節ですが、『Snow days』ってご存じですか？
NYで生まれ育ったChrisが『Snow days』について教えてくれました。
When I was growing up in Upstate New York, the schools had what they called “snow days”. These snow days occurred all through my elementary, junior high school and high school years.
（ChrisがNYで住んでた時、『snow days』と呼ばれる日があったそうです。）
I lived in an area that typically got a lot of snow every winter. January and February temperatures often went down to -20C or even -30C. And my hometown was located just south of Ontario Lake, one of the 5 Great Lakes. Cold wind would blow south from Canada, pick up moisture over Ontario Lake and then drop A LOT of snow in my area. 30cm on the ground throughout January and February was not uncommon and at times it could be up to a meter deep!
（Chrisが住んでいたのはオンタリオ湖の近くで氷点下30℃になるみたいです。日本では旭川市が氷点下30℃くらいになることがあるみたいですね。
30cmから1mも積もることがあるみたいです。）
Because of all of this heavy snow, the schools often had these “snow days” in the wintertime. School would just be cancelled for the day and did not need to be made up on a different day, it was simply a free vacation day for the kids. I would say we averaged about 4 or 5 snow days every winter. Needless to say, these snow days were much loved by the kids.
（この雪の為、学校が休校になることがありそのことを『snow days』と呼んでいたようです。言うまでもなく、子供たちにとっては”happy”な日ですね。）
I remember very clearly waking up on snowy mornings and being so excited by the possibility of a day off school. I grew up before the internet was around so school closings were announced on the local radio stations. My brother and I would get ready for school as normal, just in case it wasn’t closed. But we would listen to the announcements on the radio, anxiously waiting to hear the name of our school. The announcers would read the names of all the area schools that were closed for the day and the list would be updated every 15 minutes or so. I can’t even tell you how disappointed my brother and I were when schools all around us were closed but ours remained open. But on those mornings that we heard the name of our school announced, we were absolutely thrilled. Usually, school clothes would immediately come off, winter clothes would be put on and we would head outside to play in the snow. Then, as I got older and became a high school student, snow days just became days that I could stay home and watch TV or practice guitar. Not as whimsical as when I was younger, but still fun!
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