Snowboarding

Yikes! I went snowboarding for the 3rd time
today – I actually made it to the bus on time – and it was pretty cool.
There weren’t any lessons unfortunately, which turned out to be a real
shame because I didn’t feel like I really learned much today, I am
still making the same faults as I was last time, but I saw my teacher
from lesson 2, Ti-Ti, on the bus and he said he’s give me a lesson on
Wednesday if I wanted. Sweet.

What was really cool was that I went on my own (in that I didn’t really
know anyone else who was going especially) but it turned out that some
of my really good friends were there, including the lovely Marie who I
spent most of the afternoon with on the various slopes. We also took
this little train ride thing up to the snow park where all of the jumps
/ half-pipes etc are and it was amazing to see some of the stuff the
guys were doing. It really motivates you to want to learn when you see
others doing such cool stuff!

On the subject I think i’m going to make a little snowboard subsection
to Oliworld.co.uk, not only for the public’s interest (I know you love
me!) but for my own personal record of what i’m learning just so that
everytime i am in bed with an aching bum-bone and nearly broken thumb
(like now) I can look back at how much better I am now than I was jsut
a few days/weeks/months before. Or maybe I’ll just make the page,
update it once and then forget about it. We’ll see….

Snowboard baby!

Yo I bought the snowboard, it’s 160cm long
and has a nice bag to cover it. I feel like such a newbie talking about
it because I really don’t know about them but hey….It says Rossignol
on it, I think that’s the brand (ok i’m not *that* thick, it is the
brand)…
…And I’m testing it out tomorrow!!! I can’t wait!!! This
week hopefully I’ll be pretty good by Monday (please rearrange this
sentence to form a well-known phrase or saying) because I’m going to go
3 times (Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday). I can’t wait to be good at
boarding!

Friend Update
Ok for those following the developing situation
of my friend who came to stay who had the nightmare transport
weekend…Well when she got home…She was mugged in the street (I’m
not kidding) and had her brand new Nokia 8310 was stolen. There’s no
justice in the world…That phone was a beautiful thing…

Sweeet

Yo today I went snowboarding again (it was my second
day) and it was so COOL! Just like big Yaan (sp?) said, it takes a
couple of days to ‘get it’, but after that (eg. tomorrow) it’s all
(almost) plain sailing. Cool. Unfortunately I’m djing tomorrow night as
well so i’m going to be an absolute zombie by the time 1am comes around
but i don’t care – sleep all of Friday and Saturday then go
snowboarding again Sunday!!!
Seriously, I’m off to bed…Email me if you haven’t for a while…

Yo yo yo

Yo so I went snowboarding at Les Deux Alpes
on Sunday and my oh my it was so cool! I was warned by everyone that it
would be hard the first time and that I would really ache etc….it’s
true…but still the feeling you get when you go for a tiny bit and you
feel in control…it’s amazing…