This collection is from my visit to Syrian refugees in a town in Jordan.
Our team made visits to many different families and gave them the things they need, including diapers, women’s pads, food packages, bottles of gas, and portable stoves.

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?" J.B. Priestley

2013 began with a beautiful two days of snow (no school :D) on January 9 and 10. Snow on the first day was more like fine shaved ice, falling light and powdery with intermittent hailstorms, sleet showers, strong winds, and thunder. The second day, the storm subsided. I woke up to find everything outside my window blanketed in white. It was thick enough for making a snowman (my first)!

Although it was a beautiful sight, the snow and the storms (which lasted for several days prior to snowfall) blocked traffic and destroyed 500 tents in the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in northern Jordan. Jordan got a foot of snow. Overall, the Middle East was badly affected by storms as well, causing at least 8 deaths in the region.