On Monday morning, I awoke to the sound of my text message alert at 5:43 AM.  The text message read: "You have a 2 hour delay."  The sender, my sister Shaun, is a Middle School Special Education Teacher/Varsity Football and Basketball Cheerleading Coach/Junior Varsity Girl's Lacrosse Coach in the Pikesville School District in Pikesville, Maryland.  My first class, Political Science 311 Comparative Governments of Developing Nations runs from 8:00 AM to 9:40 AM on Mondays and Fridays, hence, I would be able to take advantage of this delay.  At 9:30, as I was getting ready to attend my Political Science 210 Introduction to International Relations course, which holds its lecture from 10:00 AM to 10:50 AM on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I checked my e-mail to find a notice from the University that it had officially closed for the day.  At this point, I immediately contacted my boss at the Wicomico Public Library (I am completing my Spanish 498 Internship here this semester) in order to learn of the status of the library.  She informed me that the library was indeed closed.  Therefore, the usual 6 hours of class I have on Mondays were eliminated.  The next phone call I made was to Graduate Assistant Coach Ben Sandlin.  According to him, practice would be held in the gymnasium at 1:00 PM.  Some of my teammates were planning sledding adventures, snow ball fights, and other snow activities, however, these were all cancelled due to practice.  

Since I am from upstate New York, I am extremely acclimated to cold conditions and snow.  For this reason, I never admit that the Eastern Shore of Maryland receives snow.  Usually, "snow" connotates white precipitation that will disappear in two hours if it is lucky enough to stick to the ground.  On the other hand, from the vantage point of the Eastern Shore native, it seems that the greatest blizzard since 1993 has hit.  I say this because the streets are as still as a sleeping baby, and the shelves in the grocery stores are bare of bread, milk, and other rations.  Nevertheless, this occasion brought the most snow that I have ever seen in Salisbury, and its lifetime lasted longer than two days.

On Wednesday, we ventured off the Eastern Shore to the mainland of Maryland.  Our opponent would be another team from the Capital Athletic Conference, Hood College.  Due to Monday's storm, their field was not in playing condition.  Therefore, we traveled to Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland.  This is significant because Coach Berkman's daughter, Kelli, plays Women's Lacrosse for the Mountaineers.   The Sea Gulls have yet to play a game in Frederick, Maryland since the Blazers entered the conference two years ago.  In 2007, our contest was postponed for the same reason and was eventually moved to Salisbury. We defeated the Blazers by a score of 28-1, and I tallied up my first point of the season via an assist to freshman midfielder Ryan Clarke.  After the game, we loaded the bus and returned to Salisbury University.

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