Goodbye winter

Winter evenings in Moulsecoomb, Brighton

Never have I ever had the problem of wanting the season to change so bad. I grew up in a country where it's practically summer all year long. Heat, heat and more heat. The first time I experienced a season other than summer that I can remember would be the student exchange programme I participated in 5 years ago. I travelled to Japan early winter for about a week and that was my first time experiencing temperatures below 10 degrees. 

A few years later, I travelled to Australia with my family. It was early Christmas and supposedly summer time there (and I've heard that summer time in Australia can get pretty toasty). I was and will always be prepared for summer time anywhere. But nope. The temperatures deviated from 8 to 20 degrees and I was silently and slowly freezing to death. Yes, I know. What is 8 to 20 degrees? I'm not a big fan of the cold, so you could only imagine my sufferings. To make things worst, I only packed a pair of jeans which I had to live in for the next 7 days. Note to self: no matter what the season, always pack more than one pair of jeans. ALWAYS. 

Moulsecoomb, Brighton

Flash forward to slightly less than a year ago when I travelled to Europe for the first time. Temperatures were between 18 and 25 degrees which was, by far, the best weather I've ever experienced. I froze for a bit when I first arrived, but slowly adapted and enjoyed the beautiful weather. 

When I first touched down to the UK, I wasn't really worried or nervous about the weather. I mean, how bad can it be, right? Wrong. As winter slowly crept in, the temperature just kept dropping, and dropping. At the rate the temperature was dropping, it BETTER start snowing. But then again, Brighton is by the coast which meant: no snow. Well of course there are exceptions some years, but the chances of it snowing is pretty low? Nonetheless, I was really excited with the hope that it might snow here in Brighton. Even if it's just one time, I'd really love to see snow. 

And it did.

It wasn't much, but honestly, seeing snow for the first time just cancelled out any sort of disappointment about there not being much snow. The snow even disappeared leaving no traces of it ever snowing at all once it was 10AM! That's sunny Brighton for you. But nonetheless, another item checked off the bucket list ✓.

Siobhan Lim