Let It Snow!

12 Let It Snow! In the city where I live, the temperature gets very hot for about two months every summer. My friends and I have fun swimming and playing volleyball at the beach. In autumn, the leaves change colour. As far as the eye can see, the view is out of this world. The leaves on the trees are magnificent-bright oranges, intense reds, and brilliant yellow hues. Then, around November, things begin to look pretty dull. The trees become bare. The temperature drops. And the days get shorter. After about one month of this, I start to get a little depressed. But there is one thing that keeps me going -thinking about snow. Snow comes in so many different forms and types. Some snow is good for skiing and other snow is good for making snowballs.

The snow we like most is the “ packing snow" , which forms only when the temperature is just below zero. Packing snow is heavy compared with other types of snow. It makes our teachers worry. They know we will make snowballs with it and start throwing them around. I love the first snowfall of the year. First, it gets dark and windy, and then it begins to snow. One tiny snowflake falls from the sky right in front of me and lands on the sidewalk. I bend down to see it. Soon another one falls beside it, and then another. I look down the street and there are millions of snowflakes in the sky, falling softly to the ground. Within minutes, the entire city changes from grey to white. People smile at each other and everyone realizes that winter is here. One year when this happened, I saw an old man who had fallen in the snow. I went over to help him up. He thanked me, and then I saw that he was holding something in his hand-a snowball. “ Watch this, " he said, and he threw it at a sign. He missed, but you know what? He didn't miss by much. Ah snow! You've got to love it.