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Oh Duluth, how I love living here. However, it is spring, but we are buried in snow still. Not to mention the below-freezing temperatures and blowing wind everyday. Even through all the blustery wind and snow, Duluth is still a very beautiful city. With the extension of winter, I have been fortunate enough to be able to continue to snowboard at Spirit Mountain here in Duluth. The downside of the fact that I can still snowboard in April is that soccer practice keeps getting cancelled. As a team, we were so excited to start practicing outdoors again, but so far 2 of our 4 practices have been postponed due to the weather. With the continuation of winter, I have been able to go for walks along Lake Superior to look at the ice that is still on all the rocks and in the harbor, which is very beautiful. Duluth, I love you, but winter has to go. I am ready for spring!

So typically May in Duluth is really warm. Picture finals week: a bunch of freshman tanning up on the penthouse (they’ve probably dragged the couches out too), upperclassman laying on the Science Lawn studying, etc. Then June is normally like April again. However since I’ve been in Duluth, it has been SUN SUN SUN.  I am SO happy. Normally, it doesn’t get this hot until July. I even packed tons of sweaters to last through June! What does this mean for me? More days reading at the Lakewalk of course!

It’s snowing. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love snow… But there comes a point where I don’t want to see it for three months straight unless I go on a vacation to the arctic. I don’t want to see it on May 1st. It’s not a lot. The picture hardly shows the white flecks, but still, it’s May 1st!!!!! Oh Duluth, you are a crazy city. 

Today I woke up for my 3rd to last day of student teaching and I had a text from my cooperating teacher: No school today.

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Duluth welcomed all the college students back with some beautiful weather! I absolutely had to get outside to enjoy it and disc golf was the obvious solution. There was only one problem: it snowed last week. Snow + Sun = Mud. We decided against playing all nine holes due to our mud caked fingers but it was still nice to get outside for a little bit.