Down The Street

Snow Day Dept: The window of my bedroom faced the street and as I watched the snow, which had slowed some but was still swirling crazily, a classmate who lived down the street trudged by, on his way to school, according to Montreal Gazette. He was walking slowly, the wind and the snow impeding him. Something, his own conscientiousness or the urging of a parent, had got him out of the house early and the memory is clear as day, although I was no older than 8 or 9: It had snowed all night and much of the previous day and the sidewalks and roads were full of drifts. Today a snow day would have been called but we didn t have snow days back then. It wasn t yet 7:30 a.m., 75 minutes before class started and at least 45 minutes before I usually left the house to walk to school, a few short blocks away; but as I looked out, there was a classmate who lived down the street, already on his way. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.