It's hailing. That's kind of like snow, right? Like sleet and other forms of winter precipitation? At least in that it's frozen? I'm not sure that it actually makes launching into joyous renditions of "Winter Wonderland" or "Let It Snow" anymore apropos, but one can pretend. One has to pretend. This is by far the most winter I'm going to see anytime soon.

My language helper is wonderful. She has no grandiose ideas of trying to keep me "on track"-- she'll let me rabbit-trail off into whatever digression I choose, so long as I continue speaking Arabic. This is good, in my opinion. Lesson plans and outlines are for grammar classes.