Blue Skies & Bright White Clouds
I was in the middle of one of my 6th grade classes yesterday when one of the girls looked out pointed out the window, “Look, teacher!!”
I strained to see what I figured to be an airplane in the sky, but didn’t see anything. Two other girls turned around and started oohing and aahing. At this point, I figured I had better get up and go see what they were looking at. I walked around the desks and looked outside. I couldn’t see anything but blue skies and bright white clouds. Oh, wait, beautiful blue skies and big, white, cumulus clouds; there was no smog and it wasn’t overcast. Definitely a rare occasion here. It was beautiful!
One of the students asked me if that’s what the skies look like in Canada. After I reminded them that I was from America, I confirmed that, for the most part, that’s what our skies look like in North America. One of the girls asked if she could take pictures with her camera phone. I told them they could, so all eight of them popped out their phones and started taking pictures. One of the girls was in complete awe of the sky. I love the sky myself, so I was glad that she got that opportunity to enjoy a beautiful one. I felt really bad, too, that it doesn’t happen more often for them. We ended up looking at the sky and taking pictures for the last 15 minutes of class.
I’m thinking it was clear because of all the rain we’ve had over the past several days. Today is not too bad either. There is gray on the horizon, and some of the clouds are gray, so it isn’t particularly beautiful, but you can still see some beautiful shades of blue high in the sky. Just another thing that I used to take for granted.
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