Nigerian’s response to first snow goes viral on Reddit

In one of the classes, We were put into groups and given tasks. My group was given this task: What do you do when you are involved in a plane crash and the plane landed on a snowy countryside with 10 inches of snow? And all we had was a pair binoculars, a box of match sticks and some items I cannot remember. I was the only guy from Africa in my team of 6. The others were from Europe and America. They all put up their hands and started talking animatedly while I sat there wondering about the first thing to do. I quietly raised up my hands and asked “What is hypothermia?” How am I supposed to contribute when I don’t know the first thing about Smow and its effects on the human body? All I knew was from my geography textbooks. 

Remember this was 1993 and there was no internet. Some of the other guys looked at me in shock and disbelief. Some couldn’t understand it. Interestingly snow fell 2 days after the exercise and my phone in my room rang incessantly as the guys in class called to tell me it was snowing and they wanted me to come outside and experience it.

So unashamedly I can feel this Nigerian, Abiola Ogungbenle’s excitement when he experienced snow for the first time in faraway Pennsylvania. It was so excited that he told his neighbour, Joseph Fryer a photographer and owner of The Digital Lightbox, to capture the moments.

According to the report, “It was like a child seeing snow for the first time,” Fryer told The Huffington Post. “You could see the excitement on his face.”

Ogungbenle asked Fryer to take a photograph of him so that he could send it back to his family in Nigeria. Fryer’s friend then posted the photo on a popular photo sharing site, Reddit and from there it went viral.

Watch the story as told on Huffington Post.

Interesting and humourous..