When the weather is Chit'is
When I watched the movie 'Bienvenue chez les Chit'is' (Welcome to Chit'is country){chit'is is the dialect/culture up here by Belgium}I laughed at the stereotype of the Siberia styled Nord-Pas-de-Calais and inwardly made a note to bring rainproof gear. I'm from Indiana it snows, it gets below zero; I know what it feels like when your nose hairs freeze when you breathe in a glacial winter blast but this Midwestern girl now knows that yes it's actually cold here. Rain, humidity, grey, windy...cold. Now that winter is here it is rare for it to go a day without raining. Many people here live in old brick buildings with only a fireplace in one room. They are tough. I see old ladies with water dripping off their hair outside in ja ckets in the rain weeding when it's 40F outside. I asked some locals why the older people don't move somewhere warmer because it's so tough to live here in the winter, the answer that they don't realize that the