Snowed Under
Everywhere in the world, kids go to school. There are schools in cities and schools in rural areas. In Africa, schools are sometimes built with grass and sticks. In other places classes are held outdoors without any building at all. When I was a young teacher, my first teaching job was in a village in the far north of Canada. There were no roads You had to take an airplane to fly into the village. I was quite nervous about this new job. But I packed my bags and headed north for my adventure.
In the autumn, when I arrived, the weather was fine. The sun shone and the days were clear. But all of that was soon to change. In late October the season changed abruptly. One morning, I awoke and it was winter. There was no warning at all. That's just the way it is in the Canadian Arctic region.
In winter, it is very cold in Canada's north. It snows a lot, too. One winter day, it started to snow really, really hard. The wind blew. And the snow didnot stop. It snowed for a whole day. It snowed all night, too.
On the morning of the third day, the snow finally stopped coming down. I woke up and peeked out my window. The students looked out their windows too. They could not see their school.
“Our school has disappeared," they cried. All they could see was white snow piled up everywhere. The snow covered the school completely. It was piled more than 8 metres high. It was amazing! But not everyone was surprised. "It happens every year, said the school principal. "This is Canada. This is how we get to school in the far north. "Of course, there was no school that day. The people in the village came and helped the janitor dig out the snow. It took three days to uncover the school! The kids enjoyed their days off. But they were glad to get back to school finally.
译文:
冰雪之下
世界上任何地方的孩子都要上学。城市有学校，农村也有学校。在非洲，学校有时是用草和树枝建的。在其他地方上课是在室外举行，没有任何建筑物。当我还是一名年轻教师的时候，我的第一份教学工作是在加拿大最北部的一个村庄。那里没有路，你必须乘飞机飞到村子里。我对这份新工作很紧张。但我还是收拾好行李，一路向北，开始了我的冒险之旅。
秋天我到的时候，天气很好。阳光明媚，天气晴朗。但这一切很快就改变了。十月下旬，季节突然变了。一天早上，我醒来，发现是冬天。完全没有任何预兆。这就是加拿大北极地区的情况。
冬天，加拿大的北部很冷。雪也下得很大。冬天的某一天，下起了很大很大的雪。风吹来。雪也没有停。雪下了一整天。雪也下了一整夜。
第三天早上，雪终于不下了。我醒了，从窗户往外看。学生们也从窗户往外看。他们看不到他们的学校。
“我们的学校不见了，”他们哭着说。他们所能看到的只是到处堆积的白雪。雪把学校完全覆盖了。堆了8米多高。太不可思议了！但并非所有人都感到惊讶。校长说，“每年都有这样的事。”这里是加拿大。在遥远的北方，我们是这样去上学的。“当然，那天学校放假。村里的人都来了，帮看把雪挖出来。花了三天时间才揭开学校的面纱！孩子们很享受他们的假期。但是他们很高兴终于回到了学校。
