Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The Second Day (ski Day) part. 2




When we arrive at the place we all rent the equipment to ski or snowboard. Some of the people did not rent anything but they played to go in so, I was a little confuse by that and my friend told me that there was a snow tubing slope and i was like what is that and she told me you will see. so we went inside and there was the snow tubing area. Tubing on snow is a wintertime activity that is similar to sledding. After I have found what was snow tubing we went to the beginners ski area where I fell most of the times and the beginning my friends that have skied before told us (the ones that haven't skied in our lives) how to put our skies and how to stop but, somehow I could stop as they told, going with the skies across the slope or making as a slice of pizza. When I went in the slope for the first time I fell right after a few meter of the start point it did not at all, once again i fell down and after falling down a few hundred times I start to make the pizza slice with my skies and I was able to stop, then I got used to and we where having a lot of fun. After everyone got the point we start to make everyone falling down by pushing each other then we decided to go a higher level of slope. Everyone got into the ski lift that took us to the top of the "Puff" slope that is one that is at the end of the right side of the hill. Everyone was going to race and the last three of us that get to the end of the trail were going to pay for the dinner. The six of us got ready for the race, one of my friends and me were pretty sure that we were going to be the ones that had to paid for the dinner because was our first time that we ski, even that we decided to race. The race start everyone start good the problems start when we catch people that were in the track that we were racing on. One of my friends fell down after he pass by a bad spot, everyone saw him because he was one the two in the first place. Then two of my friends fell down also because their pulling and pushing each other, after two of my friends fell in the tack I was in the third place but everything change when ahead of me was a person that fell down also and I almost crash with him but I didn't instead I make a turn and I fell down I tried to get up as fastest I could but I was to late my friend the one who fell first passed me and then I knew that my two friends and I had to pay the dinner. But anyway I got up and my to friends were still behind me because they fighting to not be in the last place. Everyone got at the end of the slope and I took the fourth place in the race and I had to pay for the dinner, the three of my friends who won started to make plans about who they would eat obviously they will order the expense food.

The Second Day (ski Day)


The Second day was the best, first we woke up around seven something then we took a shower and we went to have breakfast at eight thrity. The breakfast was good, we had scramblend eggs with bacon, sausage and bread. And for drinks we had the choises of juice, coffee and hot chocolate. so, we all had I really good breakfast, after we all finish our breakfast we had about one hour of free time before the section. In our hour free we play cards, the card game is called "Uno". Uno is one of the world's most popular family card games, each of us were dealt seven cards with the remaining ones placed face down to form a "draw" pile. For some of my friends and for me was our first time playing that game, at that game everyone played fairly. We spent our free hour playing cards and none of us won. After that we had section for about two hours then we another few hours of free time to do whatever we wanted to do so my friends and I decieded to go play soccer at the gim and we played for about two hours then we went back to our dorms to get really to go ski. We left the Camp at three to the hill were we skied, the place is called Pats Peak is a small, independent alpine ski resort located in Henniker, New Hampshire in the United States. The ski area opened in 1963 and has 22 trails with a vertical drop of 710 feet (220 m). I dont remember exatly how long did it take to get there but it was aroud an half hour.

The first day of Camping




Friday February 13 is the first time since I came to United States, to go camping. Some of my friends that still in High School invited me to go camping with them on their Church Retreat to New Hampshire, and we were going to be back on Monday afternoon. So on Friday I went to buy some things that I needed for the trip, at three we left Connecticut and we arrived at seven at the Camp called Camp Spofford located on beautiful Spofford Lake in Spofford, New Hampshire. During the time that we were in the bus we watch two movies the first one was called Eagle Eye (2008) a really good movie for those who love technology. The second movie that we watch during the bus trip was called August Rush, a movie for those who love music I guess, even when I only saw the last part because I fell asleep at the beginning of the movie. After we arrived to the camp and everyone got into their dorms and set up everything we had section, the section part was very interesting we had a very good speaker and he was our roommate so my friends and I spend time talking to him about our life experience and he told us his life experience which was really interesting. So, after section we had about an hour of free time which we could use to explore the Camp or we could use it to unpack our stuff. My friends and I chose to explore the place even when the weather was really cold. At eleven thirty the camp lights were turned off every day; however, Sundays were turned off at twelve.