There was snow just a second ago! I promise!

Since I came to Scotland, there has been many different views from my bedroom window. There has been fog, rain, sunsets, sunrises, rain, heavy wind, more rain, but there has never been snow. I've heard many "scary stories" about the crazy wind and snow in the Scottish winter, so when we entered December I of course expected a white Christmas. I actually expected a lot of snow. But except for one school afternoon, where a few white flakes fell from the sky for 15-20 minutes and made our Brazilian exchange student, who hadn't seen snow before, cry, there hasn't been any snow at all. 

So when I started hearing about snow everywhere but the UK, I could only look out of my window and see this:

Sometimes you could see a bit of snow on the mountain tops, which comforted me a little bit, though

 But a few days ago in the night, I looked out my window, and look what I saw!

I had originally posted this picture as a normal picture, but just after I posted it my phone made a weird noise and this picture popped up on my phone called "Google+ AutoAwesome" - I didn't tell my phone to do that, and I have no idea how you can make it do that, but it's fun that my phone know how to surpise me! So I decided to swap the pictures. So here you go, a contribution from my phone!

ACTUAL SNOW! If it hadn't been in the middle of the night and I lived in a bit of a shady neighbourhood, I would really have gone out in it! Instead I just qnjoyed it from my window. I really love snow, at least for a few days when the ground is shining white - not when it turns into that stupid grey slush.

But it was fun as long it lasted, which was only for a few hours, because when I woke up the following morning it was all gone.
But when I was waiting for my bus to take me up town with Hanna and Chanti (I had decided I really needed some proper boots instead of my cheap Primark boots, where the bottom part was halfway off), it started to snow again! Scotland's weather is truly very bipolar. It didn't stay, and as far as I know it haven't snowed since then.

I had still expected A LOT more from Scotland though - I knew it wasn't going to be something like a crazy Finnish winter, but I still expected quite a lot of snow! But now I've had my snow, and I can go back to being so thankful for being able to not wear my huge winter jacket and cover myself up in in scarfs and hats and still freezing when I go out the door.