In high school in the US, our class had a foreign exchange student from Mexico. She had never seen snow. So when it finally started snowing, we actually paused class for a short bit to take her outside, her face of joy and wonder seriously made my day.
Went to Hokkaido to snowboard last January. The first night it started snowing, after a warm spell for the first few days we were there, we stopped at an onsen outside Sapporo. It was phenomenally beautiful, with an outdoor pool surrounded in snowy pillows and trees of hanging lace. Heard some excited American English from another group in the pool, and struck up conversation. Apparently they were from San Diego, and one guy, 30s-ish, had never seen snow before. He was just staring in awe at the falling flakes and giggling.
That's crazy to me, because Big Bear and Mt. Baldy are like right there. I also grew up in Coastal SoCal, and we would do day trips up to the snow every winter.
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u/erikaironer11 2d ago
As someone who lives in a place that never snowed this looks like science fiction to me