STUdents and the Winter Snowstorms
Through the past few weeks, Fredericton has been in consistent strikes by the weather, even if it is a normal sunny day with a temperature higher than 8 degrees, or just one of the strongest snowstorms seen over the winter. Strong winds, snow inches above your knees, and temperatures lower than -20 degrees, were part of the experience felt through these major events that had left only one factor still around. The frozen snow that remains stuck to the ground and the grass bringing back memories of the days that many students couldn’t go out to have a little fun, or even get distracted from the stress of the semester and all the midterms that came along with it.
When talking about the experience that many students had over these situations, there’s a mixture of responses and feelings that relate to all the students that had to go through these harsh situations, not being able to leave anywhere close to campus because there wasn’t any public transport, or taxis, available. The many emotions that affected the people that lives on campus, and the ones that couldn’t go back to their near sited hometowns, left them with the idea of being locked up with no escape at all.
The idea of being locked in also altered many peoples plans around their working situation. As an example, Ana Canarte, a second-year students, that currently works at ToysRUs uptown by the regent mall, couldn’t assist to her two 7 hours shifts programmed for the weekend. That’s when she noticed that she had to stay in and call her job for further instruction after the snowstorm was over. As she said, “I don’t like staying in my room, but relaxing was okay.” Many other students took this in time to relax and finish up with everything else that they had pending on during the semester.
A question that left behind after the snowstorms were over, was what the students are going to do now that the snow makes it almost impossible to go out at night. Most of them came with alternative ideas to deal with the bad weather, buildings snowmen’s, having snowball fights with their friends that live nearby them, or even trying to get downtown to go skying with them. The snow opened new possibilities for many of them to have some type of fun even if they didn’t like the snow at all, the idea of sharing with their friends kept them together. By the end of both snowstorms that struck Fredericton and other nearby provinces, all the experiences that came along with it weren’t bad for most of the people that had to deal with the situation firsthand. They still had a way of pulling through without any kind of problem, just a few snowy boots and fall over that made them and their friends laugh of the awkward situations into a good memory that they are going to remember for the rest of their good friendship, and life.