On Thursday morning we all met at Stockholm’s
central bus station to start the first of our long bus rides! This bus was a
double decker bus which made I all the more exciting and somehow I managed to
get the front seats on the top level giving me a wonderful front on view the
whole way. As we set off on our way to the ski field around 7 hours away there
was a lot of “hi, sorry I can’t remember your name from the first camp, what is
it again?” But during the course of the trip I got to know everyone pretty
well!
We had two stops on the way to get lunch
and pick up one person and then one other stop to pick up a few more
people. Then we got there! We got sorted into our rooms and went to dinner. That
night was spent catching up and talking to new people and gearing ourselves up
for a big day of skiing the next day.
The next day started nice and early at
7.30 in the morning. Went to breakfast in my pajamas, which was a bad move as I had to walk
outside and outside was cold. Breakfast and coffee to get the day started then
it was time to get ready to go of skiing! I have found out just how much I hate
ski boots. They are the hardest thing to get on and off and they hurt like no
tomorrow when they are on for a full day! I started off my day skiing on a blue
slope. The slopes go from green being the easiest, to blue, then red and the
black as the hardest. Starting on blue may not have been the best idea as I screamed
just a little when going down but I didn’t fall over so I took it again and got
a lot better as the day went on! After lunch me and a group of others went to
the other side of the mountain! To get there we had to take a gondola up to the
top! This was really cool but also really awkward to get on and off of when you
are wearing ski boots and carrying skis and poles and the thing itself is
moving! But the other side had much nicer runs so it was all worth it. While going
down these runs I got taught how to ski parallel, although I couldn’t do it I gave
it a shot! At the end of the day I went back down the gondola as I didn’t
really feel I was good enough to go down the red slope just yet.
That night involved
dinner with everyone and more catching up and even less sleep!
Day two of
skiing was even better than the first! Well defiantly the first part! I learnt
how to parallel ski and became a lot better at skiing and was able to go a lot
faster without going down the mountain yelling “shit, shit, shit!” I think that
shows improvement! But at end the day I thought I would go down the mountain on
the red slope rather than on the gondola. I thought yeah I can do this I have
been doing pretty well on the blue and others have been saying that I will be
alright. This was not true. I completely owned myself! I was going down with
Jesse who knows how to ski really well and was taking me though how to get down
this steep run when it got really quite icy and I had all my weight on my right
ski and ended up going to quickly for my liking and couldn’t stop myself. This is
when I decided to fall over. I theory this was a great idea. In reality it was
the stupidest idea I have ever had! My right ski came off and I went rolling
down and down the hill. As I have rolling my other ski kept hitting my right
knee. I ended up twisting my knee and having to go down the mountain on a snow
scooter! Once down the mountain I got my knee taped up and was put on crutches.
One thing I have learned is that crutches, ski boots and ice are not a good mix.
Makes walking every hard!! On a plus side though I got to go on a snow
scooter!!
That night we
had a sort of dance party which was a lot of fun!
Then it was
time to go. We packed up the bus said goodbye to the ski field and got on our
way until the bus door got so cold it wouldn’t stay closed! But once we got
that sorted we headed off home!
Having this
ski trip was so much fun and it was so great to see everyone again and have a
good old time with very little sleep!
And I mean you
can’t have a good time without having a story to tell. That is the really
reason I owned myself!!
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