Today wasn’t like the other Saturdays. Since I’ve been in Germany, we’ve always had half of Saturday and all of Sunday off, but today they made us work the entire day and tomorrow on Sunday, New Year’s Eve, we have to work until noon. This is how our year will come to an end. After a dozen days of continuous good weather, which is unheard of, it snowed yesterday. The ground is covered in ice, it’s brutally cold out, this year’s winter is much harsher than last year’s.