Alta, a small city in arctic region of Norway. In this land, snow start falling from mid-October to end of April usually. People in Alta looks they know how they live with snow in wintertime and how to welcome the arrival of winter unlike me, as an international student from Japan, a temperate zone of the earth. There are also tourists who coming to Alta even in polar night season, since Alta is one of the popular tourism places to see northern light. I am going to talk three reasons that what snow gives us to me based on my own experience.
First of all, I came to realize that, when the snow start falling, the land turn into totally different place which is covered with beautiful white snow, compare to it in summertime. The appearance is different, while in summertime, you see the beautiful landscape of Norway with the color of green nature and midnight sun warm up the people, in wintertime, the landscape become the color of pure white and the snow reflects the sunlight, and make the day more vibrant. For me, snow makes me feel I’m in the arctic. I talk to neighbors often and none of them hate winter. They say winter is the most beautiful season in Alta.