...I should be used to it by now, but I still find this journey so laborious and cold. Mia, my friend, is so lucky! She has a hat , gloves AND even snow boots! i begged my mum for some thick boots, but I am still suffering the numbness of the icy snow falling into my shoes. As we step over frosty rocks , we have to be careful.Last week i slipped and fell into one of the freezing puddles of water, leaving me damp and cold for the last 2km.

I keep getting blinded by the snow, and therefore i need to keep stopping to wipe my eyes. When the snow gets in your eyes it really stings, but if you exclaim to loud, you may be labeled a wimp at school, which is not wanted.

I still have the bruise where a huge hailstone hit me on my leg. It rarely hails, but when it does you HAVE to take cover.The hailstones we receive are about the size of a slightly small stone, so being hit is very painful.There aren't many ledges to crouch under, so sometimes you have to dive into a pile of snow or squeeze into the gap between a few rocks. I usually go for the rock option, but so does everyone else, leaving about 8 kids with no cover. The decision to dive into snow results in numbness all over your body, depending on how long the storm goes for.

We can barely ever see our school in winter, even when we are about 10 metres away, due to the thick downfall of snow. When we arrive we have to take our coats off, which I really don't like to do, as everyone is probably frozen and our school has only a few radiators.