One of the BEST Things About Winter

One of the BEST Things About Winter
By Siera Millard
Photo by bronxebridges

Buzz. Buzz. The alarm you set on your phone the night before is going off in your ear. You hear the dreaded sound through your dream of defeating seven ninjas single-handedly and turn off the noise with an angry smack of your hand. You groan as you remember that huge test you didn’t study for in bio and start to drag yourself out of your warm, soft bed, right as your mom walks in and tells you that school is cancelled. You run to the window and see a world of swirling white. Snow day!

As students at Rossview, we know quite a lot about snow days. I mean, we’ve had them enough in past years to be experts. As experts, we need to hone our skills on how to spend the perfect, most exciting snow day ever!

Here are some things to do on those frigid days that mean no school:

1. Sleep in...what more can I say than that? During the school week, sleep is a rare commodity. Get it while you can.  
   
2. Netflix. Snuggle up on the couch with some hot chocolate and a warm blanket, and kill your last two brain cells watching every episode of Parks and Rec. Your friend thinks you can’t watch every season in one day? Challenge accepted! You could even watch that one movie that everyone has been talking about, even though you’ve heard so much about it you already know the ending.
   
3. Get hypothermia! Go play in the snow for hours on end. Oh, your fingers and toes went numb? No big deal! That just means you’re having fun! Make a snow angel that gets ruined when you try to get up and has an awkward handprint right in the middle of it. Have a snowball fight with your sister until she picks up a piece with just a little too much ice in it. Run inside to tell on your sister because she threw it at you anyway. You can even build a snowman to look like Pokémon, or an old lady, or that really annoying neighbor that yells at you as you drive by with your music on volume level ten.
   
4. Annoy your parent as they try to get stuff done around the house. Ask them what’s for dinner even though you just ate breakfast. Tell them that you are bored, but do nothing to entertain yourself. Complain that the internet is too slow and ask them to fix it.
   
5. Eat all the food in your house out of boredom.
   
6. Study? Get a jumpstart on that paper due next week or study for that huge test you would have had today.
   
7. Don’t study! It’s your day off, and besides, you already did your homework the day before. Relax and unwind beside a cozy fire as you stress about not studying, but also revel in the fact that you’re not.
   
8. Write a letter to Santa (because he is real) and ask him to bring you a new bike, a horse, and those cool shoes you wanted from Journeys. The horse not being super high on your list, but you do want to drive it to school.
   
9. Cut out one of those paper snowflakes, become obsessed with making them, decorate the entire house in them, don’t let your mom take them down until Valentine’s Day.
   
10. Think about the future. Have a panic attack when you start looking at colleges and the debt that you will have until you’re a billion years old. Hyperventilate. Sit in a fit of  depression for the rest of the day.
    

Whatever you do on snow days, stay safe and be cautious...but also have fun!

Sources
https://www.bronxbridges.org/apps/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=339961&id=0

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