here's a run down of the last 2 weeks

 

most days: MAN IT HAS BEEN zZzZzZzZz. after all, i spend most of my days playing PSP and reading blogs and typing my own up. read a few magazines, read a few Archies (from an old collection) and basically tidied out my room a.k.a getting rid of old junk (stuff from the past semester). straightened out my closet, etc etc you get the idea. what sucks about holidays is that there never seems to be the perfect balance between having a break, and having too much break time. lol i have no idea if that made sense.

 

july 13-15: WENT TO THE SNOW. oh. my. god. it was so awesome! the snow was beautiful. the whole week before, it had been snowing like crazy, so we ended up with like 80 cm of snow, apparently. nice soft surface to land on. after all, it wouldn't be very nice if we n00bs had to land on ice or hard ground, now would it? learning how to snowboard was excellent! so easy to pick up, but not so easy to get it right - we starting out doing something called the "leaf fall". it's where you basically break down the hill, going left and right and left and right to pick up speed. the BEST thing about it is, it's safe and reasonably slow enough for us n00bs to get used to, so we had a blast! the 4 of us (nick, law, jess and i) went to some of the gentler slopes, and tried out our "skills", or whatever there was to try LOL. we did alright i guess.

 

first day, first ADVENTURE! jess lost her board down a blue (intermediate) slope which we were raring to try out. turns out, the slope was CLOSED! but we didn't know that, so we decided to go down after it. nick walked down and law and i joined them at the bottom, luckily they found the board. so we took it reeeeeeally slowly, and boarded our way down. we hit a looooong ice patch, which is really dangerous because it's a hard surface to crack your head on, and there's no breaking effect if the board isn't on the ground. omg we were sooo freaked out that we spent most of our time on our ASS sliding down the hill. in the end a 20-min slope took us about 45 mins to complete. *FREAKY!* after that all i wanted to do was go back to the room and sleep off the adenalin!!

 

second day was excellent! a small amount of snow had fallen again. this time, we decided to stick to the green routes (easy), but to take the longest one they had - the village trail! this train was amazing. reasonably steep, reasonably fast. we took a much shorter time getting down the course than expected. by the end of it, nick and i were even going sideways! so instead of breaking down the hill, we were going with leading foot actually LEADING! the adenalin rush was amazing. imagine, instead of shaving the ice of the flat of a blade, your're slicing through it with the sharp edge - that's what it felt like! incredible. too bad this happened on the last run of the trip! oh well.

 

ooh. we also got FOOD POISONING! the spaghetti bolognaise they served for dinner on the first day had raw meat and poorly cooked spaghetti. poor jess had to sit the 2nd day out 'cause she was really feeling bad. add to that the injuries we all sustained from the previous day of falling on our asses, and she could board for half a day! that totally sucked - we felt pretty bad leaving her there ><. one girl actually FAINTED! lol she got back on her feet and hit the slopes soon after - insane, but cool.

 

so all in all, a pretty successful trip! next time we'll know how to board properly, and maybe we try one of the blue slopes!

 

july 9th: first hapkido class. this is a martial art form that came from south korea. i learned some of the basic forms, and they were pretty intense. even the breathing exercises get you breathing hard! ok ok so i'm not in the best shape ever, but i mean, it's just breathing! how strenuous could it be? and yet, my heart rate was up. pretty cool. we also learned some kicks, and disarming moves. that was pretty cool. went home that night and had dreams of ass-kicking and name-taking LOL. it doesn't really happen, but at least i'm learning to protect myself. it's pretty fun as well! i also get to work on the teacher's website! it's pretty bare now, so i'll have to work on it, and make it cool :) then i'll have something to show as my work - not like the stuff i did in NS, which i can't show 'cause it's not even online! ><

 

so that's pretty much it! photos of the ski trip should be up, and i have none of the hapkido - you'll just have to visit the website, won't you? once i've worked on it of course :) http://www.sydney-hapkido.com

 

peace out.

later.