Sunday the 14th to Thursday the 18th of March I was skiing in Åre with 40 other exchange students! Kelly and I got there at 3 pm and everyone else had already arrived so we jumped into the pool and sauna world to meet them. I hadn't met a lot of the exchange students because the ones from the southern hemisphere had just arrived in January. In the evenings we had the whole hostel to our selves so we took over the lounge and watched movies and got the sauna going. Rod and I were in the sauna one night and a group of others ran in and dumped buckets of water on us-not funny!!
**********During the day we went skiing! We got group lessons and private lessons and free time to go where ever on the slopes! There was several trip parks, I just tried the half pipe because everything else was too scary! We went to the top a couple times but it was usually covered in cloud which is really hard to ski through when you can't see 2 meters in front of you! I helped my friend Morgane ski down an easy slope which took us almost an hour because she was really scared to go down even a 5 degree slope. She had almost a total melt down half way back to the lodge but we eventually got there!
************You could ski right into town! We went down there propped up our skis outside a store and wondered around the place in our ski boots! We also did a little off-pist skiing through the trees, one of which rather painfully hit my shin.But all in all, it was the best time I've had skiing in my life!!!
************One evening we went to visit a spectacular frozen waterfall and snow house and church. It was really cool and I bought myself a big rabbit fur lined hat there.
*************We went home Thursday after noon after one last morning skiing!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Åre!
Sunday the 14th to Thursday the 18th of March I was skiing in Åre with 40 other exchange students! Kelly and I got there at 3 pm and everyone else had already arrived so we jumped into the pool and sauna world to meet them. I hadn't met a lot of the exchange students because the ones from the southern hemisphere had just arrived in January. In the evenings we had the whole hostel to our selves so we took over the lounge and watched movies and got the sauna going. Rod and I were in the sauna one night and a group of others ran in and dumped buckets of water on us-not funny!!
**********During the day we went skiing! We got group lessons and private lessons and free time to go where ever on the slopes! There was several trip parks, I just tried the half pipe because everything else was too scary! We went to the top a couple times but it was usually covered in cloud which is really hard to ski through when you can't see 2 meters in front of you! I helped my friend Morgane ski down an easy slope which took us almost an hour because she was really scared to go down even a 5 degree slope. She had almost a total melt down half way back to the lodge but we eventually got there!
************You could ski right into town! We went down there propped up our skis outside a store and wondered around the place in our ski boots! We also did a little off-pist skiing through the trees, one of which rather painfully hit my shin.But all in all, it was the best time I've had skiing in my life!!!
************One evening we went to visit a spectacular frozen waterfall and snow house and church. It was really cool and I bought myself a big rabbit fur lined hat there.
*************We went home Thursday after noon after one last morning skiing!
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