Grey

The introduction day at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governanace was a grey, rainy, cold day.  It was the first such day I had experienced in Maastricht after a month of warm blue skies.  That afternoon the dean of the school said, ""Welcome to fall in Maastricht!  Now that the weather has changed, it will likely stay like this for the next nine months."  I had expected this.  In my research about Maastricht, I had discovered that it seemed similar to Seattle in terms of climate.  I had resigned myself to the cold and even the rain....though I was rather apprehensive about the combination of the two.  Still, I failed to account for the grey.  Every morning, you open the curtains and see...grey.  The leaves change colors, and the sky is grey.  Today it rains, and the sky is grey.  Some days it is warmer, and the sky is grey.  Some days it is cold, and the sky is grey.  Grey....unrelenting grey.