Whenever we went to our ceramics class last week, it was freezing cold! The art school where we go for ceramics is usually nice and toasty warm during the winter months, but last week there was an issue with the heating system. We didn’t know what the problem was, and neither did the instructor. We were all sitting around at our potters’ wheels with our teeth chattering! Of course, we were all complaining to the instructor about it, but she told us that the Administration had told him that there was nothing that they could do about the heating system that day. They had thought about canceling classes, but they did not have any make-up days that they could use, so they went ahead and had class anyway. Our poor instructor brought in a tiny little electric space heater and set it up in the middle of the room, but it did not really help all that much. We were huddled around it like it was a campfire or something, and it was all pretty comical. Our class was about two hours long that day, and by the end of the class, the temperature in the room had fallen so much that I swear we could see our breath in front of our faces. The administration made an announcement that day that they had their commercial heating and cooling company on the way, and that the next week they promised that the heating would be up and running again like normal. I hope that is true, because I can’t sit through another freezing cold class again!