Dorm Ski Trip

So things here continue to go well with the occasional bump in the road when one of our students doesn't follow a rule or such. But all in all it's been a smooth ride so far and it's coming to my one month of being here. That's crazy! I feel like I've been here for such a long time and yet in some instances I feel like I've only been here a little.

This last week has been fun, but nothing too much to really comment on except for the fact that I've been watching American Idol sometimes here, and watched part of the superbowl yesterday with Korean commentators. It was definately not as fun not understanding a word, but it was still the superbowl.

As for the title of this post, on Saturday we had a dorm SKI trip :-D I love skiing, so I went along of course.

We left here at like 6:30 in the morning to drive for about 2 hours to the mountains east of Seoul. When we got there we found a nice little resort with about 5 decent trails and enough snow cover on all them. Also there was a big hotel there for guests. So we get there and we find a couple hundred people there already. So we go get our rentals. We had to fill out a form on height and everything to get the right sized stuff and that was hard as it was all in metric. So I had to know my shoe size in mm and my height in cm. Well, we then got our rentals and hit the slopes.

Oh, what a great time. The slopes were in perfect condition in the morning. Great carving, good steepness on the slopes that I took at least and not too packed (on the black diamond that is). The lifts at this place (which is called Oak Valley) were decent. The one I went on every time was an eight person lift. You heard right....eight person.

So then it was lunch time and we all had some delicious lunch. Then back out to the slopes. This time around though.....not so much fun. Why? Well, a couple hundred more people came it was starting to warm up. So I go for the slopes. The first time down the one slope, I realize the snow has gotten a lot wetter. This is not good as it sticks to your skiis and for one you slow down, and two, your ski can get stuck and it's very hard to carve with those conditions. The other bad part was with so many other people, the slopes were getting packed. So I stopped after two more runs.

Oh, I did forget to mention that at least in the morning it snowed a little, so I felt like I was at a true resort.

So yeah, that was my experience. As for this week, not so much is happening yet. I still need to go to Japan sometime for my Visa. Not sure when yet though. Well, that's it here. There are some skiing pictures down below here.

Blessings