A 13-year-old girl was recovering today in Regions Hospital after her school bus dropped her off in the bitter cold after school Monday and she was unable to find her way home for several hours.

"I was so scared," said Kai Thao, 13, a 7th-grader at Humboldt Junior High School in St. Paul.

A jogger found Kai Thao - who was dressed in a thin coat and tennis shoes - at an intersection and drove her home around 8 p.m., more than three hours after the bus let her off.

She suffered frostbite on her fingers and toes. She was in fair condition Tuesday and improving, a hospital spokeswoman said, and she is unlikely to suffer tissue damage.