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The Fetal Diaries #30: it’s let’s-fix-up-the-roads-and-make-new-buildings season in Alberta. How about yours?
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Well, as most of you (hopefully) already know, canada is the first place i’ve lived in that has all 4 seasons present during the year.
The Phils only had 2 seasons: rain and dry season. The UAE.. I’m not even sure. It just gets cooler in temp around the end-start of the year, but precipitation differences are barely noticeable. In canada, there’s spring, summer, fall, winter. And right now we’re at spring.
However, because canada (and more specifically, alberta) has snow for almost half a year, the snowless months are crucial. This is when people scramble to get construction projects done. They fix up roads, make new buildings, do landscaping (which i think is a bit of a waste of money since it’s gonna die out 3 months later anyways) and when the majority of the teenage canadian girl population go out in skimpy skirts and shirts to ‘get a tan’ when over half of them don’t even tan, but just burn, or turn horribly red. And so i call it.. That season. Yeah, i’m not gonna bother txting out the whole name, but it’s basically the title. Or maybe i should call it crap-tan season..
How about your side of the world? Do you have those ’special’ seasons? Aights pc’n! 
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May 29th, 2008 at 12:23 am
As soon as the weather is passably warm and the sun is out in Switzerland, everyone gose down to the lakes to sunbathe. Except lakes don’t have beaches. It’s just rocks and, at best, parks.
But people go anywhere by water to sunbathe. I’ve seen whole crowds of people lay towels on PIERS and sunbathe, tight as sardines. Talk about desperate. In Brig, there is no such lake, but there IS a swimming pool. Some people don’t even go there to swim, just to sunbathe, which I find ridiculous since you certainly don’t need to sit by a pool to do it. You’re in the mountains, there’s plenty of free open space.
They love parades here though. Spring is the beginning of parade season. They have so many I don’t know most of them, complete with marching bands, guys in Imperial style uniforms on horses and crap all long the street. Probably the most interesting though, is Sechseleute (Sachsaluute in Swiss-German). They light a fake snowman on fire and see how long it takes to blow up. The time it takes is supposed to decide the length and intensity of the coming summer.
Somehow, I suspect that these days, meteorologists and engineering ensures that it’s more or less accurate.
Of course there’s also Street Parade and the ZuriFascht.
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June 4th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Lol, I was just discussing weather with my mom the other day. She grew up in the US..so she loves the four seasons. So when we moved abroad (Saudi) she missed them a lot. There is only Summer and a semi-Winter season there (lasts for about 6-8 weeks). Since we moved back to the US this school year, she has been ecstatic about the weather - having four seasons and all :p
But me? Not so much. I hate the (seemingly) constant weather change
It seems like just when I’m kinda sorta starting to adapt to a different type of weather..it changes up on me again! Lol.
Seeing snow was awesome, though.
Currently i don’t know what season we’re in. We’re still having a lot of showers and some nice weather days. But I thought summer started around mid May? It’s already June. Still doesn’t feel like “Summer” weather yet to me. Maybe we’re in the transition period or something
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June 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
here in south of brazil it’s freezing-winds–humid-air–drizzling-rain–no-heating–colder-indoors-than-outdoors season
I like the 4 seasons. I like change, it makes me feel that life is progressing.
That’s why for me, seasons here in the south of brazil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate) are boring, because nothing ever changes.
Winters are cold (around 7 to 10C), plus there’s a chilly wind, no heating, no technological clothes (like fleece), it gets colder indoors than outdoors (houses are made for summer not winter), you have to wear coats indoors…blah…I just hate it.
If there were snow, or the leaves changed, or SOMETHING INTERESTING happened…but no…just the same boring landscape month after month after month.
But so far this year it’s actually been ok, because it’s been dryer than usual, which makes it feel not so cold. So we’re getting some cold but nice sunny days. I do admit I like that. But just today I was thinking “how annoying, there’s no real winter here, nothing ever changes”.
Usually winter is the I’m-depressed-cause-its-raining-and-I-cant-leave-home-cause-I’ll-melt-in-the-rain season for the monos. Seriously. They don’t do **anything** when it rains.
This is a common sentence here: “oh I didn’t go to your party [indoors, mind you] because it was raining”. And I always think “so what, you have a car and an umbrella, don’t you?”. And it’s just a drizzling rain, not a storm!
That’s another reason why I like places with ‘real’ winter, cause then you can play winter/snow sports. In those places winter at least serves for someting fun.
Here people just get depressed and isolated in their homes. There are only 2 seasons for them: the go-to-the-beach season and the don’t-go-to-the-beach season
But this is just my biased-anti-brazilian point of view
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July 2nd, 2008 at 10:23 pm
summer in northern north america is never really summer… It’s construction season
Dude, in some places girls still wear offuly skimpy clothing even at thirty below
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