Freezing rain, gasping students...

This morning I awoke to find the valley unlike I've ever seen it. In fact I couldn't see it. All of the mountains and most of the city was obscured by what I at first took to be a heavy fog and quickly found out was what we like to call in North Carolina "a wintery mix". So think cold.

Nonwithstanding the fact that it's not supposed to rain here from September to March, I donned a thick scarf, two layers of socks, a heavy waterproof coat and trudged off to class.

Once inside the classroom, I start to take off my jacket. Immediately all of the students began gasp and call out desperately "Noooo Teacher" "Ms Kelly noooooooooooo". Really I didn't understand what they were so upset about. So I laid the jacket on my desk and, to the utter horror of my students, begin to take off my scarf as well... the room errupted into an even more desperate chours of "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO TEEEEEEECHER!" "Ms Kelly doooooooooooooon't".

It turns out that they believe that removing a jacket, much more so a scarf, in cold weather is the equivalent of jumping into an iced over lake with no clothes.

But judging by their reaction you would have thought I was stripping down to nothing in front of them.

Trust me I wasn't... after all, I still had two layers of socks to go.
haha