Today, it snowed. You have to understand that in my entire life it has never snowed here before. I, and many others my age have never experienced snow until now.
During school, we went on about business as usual. The science teacher was giving her lesson, explaining the connection between volume, temperature and pressure (or something like that) when all of a sudden, one of the students yelled "it's SNOWING!" and everyone jumps up to take a look outside.
Now this teacher isn't a hardass, but she has always been a little strict about everyone keeping focused on what she was teaching. Today however she seemed to understand that these kids have never experienced snow before in their entire lives, instead of telling everyone to go back to their seats she just made a short joke about our attention spans and then joined everyone to take a closer look outside-for the rest of the lesson.
I thought that was nice of her, to stop the day's lesson to let her students enjoy the snow.
Same thing happened in math after the bell rang, the math teacher just quickly finished explaining what she wanted to explain and then patiently let the class outside. By then it was REALLY snowing, and the whole school was outside.
Hundreds took their cellphones out to record this once-every-30-years event. I even saw the nice book lady step outside of the school bookshop to take a few quick shots on her cellphone.
Seeing so many excited people, so many smiles, was nice.
It was a lovely distraction, it's the little things in life.