Freezing Weather in Wisconsin and Sickness in Japan
Last night Ben got on-line and informed me that he didn’t have to go to school because it was too cold. The winter weather has finally hit Wisconsin. According to the weatherchannel.com it is about -21 degrees below zero. In Japan today we are having spring like weather, it is 55 degrees or so today! Winter in Japan is awesome.
There is one downside to winter in Japan...getting sick. During the winter the middle schools in the area switch to a shortened school schedule because it gets dark earlier. Each class is shortened by five minutes so instead of being 50 minutes they are 45 minutes long. Yesterday the class switched back to being 50 minutes but because so many students are sick, they have been moved back to the 45 minute schedule and morning sports practice has been cancelled. Each class in the school has at least one student out sick and some of the classes have five or more students who are at home sick.