Snow in Sagarejo

(This is my painting of winter)

As I walked outside, I felt freezing winter falling on my head... It was snowing so hard I couldn't see anything... Wow! What a beauty. That's a kind of feeling I can't describe exactly, but I'll try.

Where was I? Oh, yes. So, when I was walking out my house I could see nothing at all. I wanted this moment to never end. Everything was in white... Everything! Felt like I was alone, but not really alone at all... Have you ever felt like this? I could see black pieces of roofs far, far away, all covered with snow. It was like magic. Tiny snowflakes were falling on my head just like sweet candies in Christmas box. Everything was quiet... Deathly silence was banging my ears...

There has been twenty-two winters since I have been born, and there are not few, that I remember. Winters in Sagarejo have been great, with snow. I remember Christmas nights with freezing weather outside. There's a Christmas tradition in Georgia: on Christmas, people, but mainly children, go door to door and sing a song about Jesus-been-born and then they get some money as a gift. Years ago, they would have some baskets and they would get eggs instead of money. So, when you and your friends are out in that freezing winter, you should be cold, but it's a strange feeling - you are warm and singing gets you warmer and the faces of people listening to you gets you even warmer.

Anyway, everyone loves snow. Or the process, at least. I've heard people saying, that they love snow, but in fact, they mean that they love watching the process of snowing and not the snow itself.

I remember a day in winter 2009. it was our vacation in winter. Our neighbours and I with my brother went to our mini-stadium to play some ball.

It was almost 11 o'clock at night. We decided to play football. It was something like we were flying. A big, bright projector was lighting a piece of sky and when we were looking at the sky we saw a huge mass of snowflakes falling on us.

We sometimes fell down, hurt our legs, crashed each other, lay in the snow, got wet, but it was great.

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