Today there is a dust storm.  It is the last day of the semester, exams start tomorrow.  All the staff and students in high school have been review for the last four days.  Emotions are high among the students, exhaustion is high among the staff, and now, there’s a dust storm. 

Some of you I’m sure have thoughts of swirling dusty tornados, or walls of sand that can be seen for miles.   In fact, it really isn’t like either.  It’s like a fog....that you can chew.  It’s sand in the air everywhere, giving a very distinctive orange colour to the air and the light.  It looks like orange tang has been poured over the entire city.

These types of storms here are akin to major snow storms at home.  They only happen once or twice a year (to this magnitude, anyway) and the kids all go a little squirrelly.  Parents begin to show up at the school to take the kids home, although I personally would not want to be out on the roads.

It is one of those things that truly has to be experienced to be believed.  It is nothing like I expected a sand storm to be.  However, that can pretty much be said of all of the weather so far.  I did not expect it to be humid, and it was, REALLY was.  I was never expecting it to be cold, and it was...sort of.  It was cool when I returned home from Christmas.  I think the coldest day so far was 10 degrees.  Aside from the dust, it’s beautiful now.  Not too hot, around 20 degrees every day.  I have to say I am not missing the winter at all.  Sandals in February are a beautiful thing.