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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Snow - novelty for area students
By CHRIS ROBINETTE
Traveler Correspondent
The arrival of snow marks just another winter for native Midwesterners, but for some international students at Cowley College, the arrival of snow marks something entirely new and unseen.
"I was ecstatic! I had never seen anything like it," said sophomore Charisse Archer, from Trinidad and Tobago.
Archer still has the same reaction every time it snows. "It's always like 'wow, this never happens in the Caribbean.' I'm pretty sure it will never grow old," she said.
Winter does have downsides for some of the international students.
Shravan Arora, a sophomore from India, was taken aback when he first saw snow.
"It was cold, but it was still beautiful," he said. During his years in India and Dubai, Arora never encountered snow. It was only something he had heard about.
"You always imagined it in story books," he said, adding, "This [the snow] was the real thing, basically."
Arora and his Indian friends went outside to play in the snow, they "rolled around, [and] threw snowballs at each other."
But the "initial rush" soon died down. Arora doesn't enjoy the winter weather too much. "It gets really cold for me."
Arora decides to stay inside most of the time; he said he reads and cooks more. He also finds himself taking more time to rest. "It's winter and you just feel like sleeping more," he said.
Diego Motivar, a Cowley College sophomore from Bogota, Columbia, finds himself with little to do during the winter, like Arora. He said that snow was "kind of fun" when he first saw it, but, "after awhile, you get bored."
Both Motivar and Arora prefer summer to winter.
"You can't really enjoy winter, you can enjoy summer because you can go out there and look outside," said Arora.
Archer, however, still finds enjoyment in the Kansas winter, "I prefer . . . Kansas winters and Trinidad summers."
"Snow makes everything seem so serene," she said.
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