Skiing in the Alps

For the first weekend of school the administrators took pity on us and didn't schedule much homework, which gave me a chance to go skiing.  I justified the early morning and the high expense by the fact that I figured it might be the only weekend this ski season that I'd be able to go.

That rationale found me getting up early on Sunday morning, at 7:30am (after a very late night out) to meet three other students to go skiing at Verbier resort, about 1.5 hours from Lausanne.  Fabian, from Germany, was nice enough to take us in his car, and we spent the whole day on the mountain.  It was my first time skiing in the Alps, and it was beautiful, although it would have been better if it hadn’t been quite so cloudy and snowy most of the day.  We were surrounded by mountains but I hardly got to see any of them. 

I didn't go skiing last season at all, and hadn't been yet this season, so it was a bit frustrating because I had to spend most of the day just catching back up to the level I was at before.  By the end of the day I felt like I was almost back to where I last left off.

That evening I was asleep by 8pm, and didn’t get ahead on the readings like I had planned to (oops).