Skiing

It was kind of a rash decision, but the Friday before Springbreak, Martin, Micky, Brett and I decided to go snowboarding (and for me skiing). We left around 3 PM, right after our classes, and arrived at Mad River Mountain less than an hour later.  After getting dressed in the car, Micky and I left to get a pass for the lifts and to rent a snowboard and skis. When everyone was ready, Brett left for the stunt park and the rest left for the slopes.


Because Micky was pretty new to snowboarding, we started at the green slopes. He was not even that bad, but let his fear get the best of him. This meant that he was going slower than Martin and I were intending to go. Because of this, we left him after a couple of rounds. We did some harder slopes and after that, left for the stunt park as well.

Later on, we all ran into each other again and decided to warm up a little and get a drink. I bought new gloves because it was -15*C and after that, we continued snowboarding & skiing.

At 8.30 PM, the slopes closed for an hour to get repaired. Everyone went inside the bar/ restaurant for dinner and waited it out. After this break we all went to the stunt park, after almost 2 hours and promising him a * of the year award, finally got Micky to grind. We stayed on the slopes until 2 AM, after which we went back to campus.

Martin wearing the ski pants I borrowed from B

Brent, Micky and Martin

Martin & I in the skilift

Me, Martin and Micky

Brent, Micky, Me and Martin

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First Snow!

Last week, all Wittenberg students suddenly got an e-mail warning us about an upcoming snowstorm. "Chance of a Storm: Good." I didn't think much about it at first, but within the entire campus was covered in snow. Everything looked beautiful, and the temperature had suddenly (in a period of two days) dropped from 19°C to a perceived temperature of -11°C.

Living in a building with a lot of internationals was probably one of the most fun things that could happen at the moment. Some had never seen snow before and had been amazed, it was the cutest thing. They were looking at the sky for an hour straight, trying to catch some of the falling snow.

The first day of snow, some of the internationals decided to have a snow fight at midnight. Martin, Micky, Neo, Rayika, David and Vicky (a non-international, one of my teammates and the soon to be girlfriend of Martin;) all grabbed our jackets and went outside. Making snowmen wasn't a big success, so we kept it to throwing snowballs at each other, tackling each other, sliding down a hill on our butts and dropping snow inside each other's clothes. We had a blast.

I think it was the second or third day that we went out together again. We decided to go sledging and, because we didn't have any sledges, used our laundry baskets instead. We went to The Hollow, a beautiful hill on campus, and tried our sledging skills out. The snow wasn't ideal but with some pushing each other down the hill, we all made it to the bottom of the hill. Sometimes with our laundry basket, sometimes without: we often fell out at some point. I don't think I've ever had this much fun while sledging.

We were about to head out, when David took the wrong exit. Instead of walking outside, he walked into a girls room. We we're all laughing and rolling around when he fled the room with red cheeks and headed out of the right exit.

Our snow fight started in our own hallway.

Our campus is even more beautiful when it is covered in snow.

Walking towards classes was a struggle though: it was cold and slippery.

The Hollow, where we decided to go sledging in laundry baskets.

Campus again - Making my way back to my dorm.

In my opinion the most beautiful building on campus, covered in snow.

Because snow means the beginning of winter and Christmas, I started writing some christmas letters!

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