Yon Hello! I am back from the land of the francais peoples and i am here to say Have you missed me? Becasue i have missed ALL of you!! (mwah mwah) I missed having human contact (that doesn not include my family becasue they are too strange to be in the human category). I have been around french speaking people too long and i have cought a french cold (meaning: speaking alot of francais) and it will be very weird walking down the street and hearing only english and not seeing alot of very good-looking guys (ther were alot on the ski hill !! :) )
I know you all can't wait to know how my trip went, so i will tell you day by day. I won't make it too long and boring, but long enought so you'll understand :D
Day1
Arrived around 7-ish.. i dont remember all that well. We thought there was no night skiing so my dad and cousin stayed home while me and my mom and brother went out for a walk (my aunt and uncle haven't arrived yet). We came home to my dad and my cousin watching something on TV about how people in China didnt know how to have sex for so many years until now. I mean, they DID, but they weren't sexual or w/e and they thought kissing led to marriage. They watched and watched until finally my mom said "What are you watching!! there are kids here!" And then some asian lady started making orgasm noises and we tried to change the channel and the remote wouldnt work. After a couple of tries it finally worked. That was so emberassing. I went to bed.
Day2
Woke up at 11:30 with my dad yelling in my ear how much of a hassle it is to wait around for me to wake up and how im holding everyone back. Love you too dad. IT'S NEW YEARS EVE TONIGHT! So there will be no night skiing. It was really foggy today so when we went outside and began to drive to the ski hill, we couldnt find the mountain and then we look up and we see this HUGE mountain in the fog right in front of us and we all go "woahhh" it was tres comicale. It was around -7 degrees and i had to wear my 5-inch thick snowpants which were way too big on me. It's very sad becasue there were hot guys everywhere and i probably looked like a blimp on skiis. Anyways, aside from my problems.. The hill was HUGEE. The longest run was over 5000 metres long .. and then mountain was around 600 something meters high. The lift tickets cost about.. 20 dollars for people 7-12 years old, 26 dollars for people 13-17 years old and 40 dollars for 18+. It varied if you were going day skiing, night skiing, half day skiing, day+night skiing.. you get the point. I had to pretend i was 12 becasue we are cheap :)We skiid down the hill for a couple of hours (12:30-4:30 pm) and headed home to prepare for new years. We ruined all of our traditions by opening out presents at 8:00, comparing to all the other years when it was 12:00. I got clothes, stuff from london.. blah blah. Unimportant stuff. Then we counted down from 10 and my family made me drink shampagne. EUGh. it tasted so horrible. I dont know how anyone can drink that crap-in-a-glass. After i drank it there was this horrible heat in my throat that wouldnt go away... ANYWAYS. We all went to bed around 3:00 am and my cousin got sick :) That's a good way to start the new year.
Day3
Woke up around 12:30. My head hurt. I think i had a hangover from 2 sips of champagne. We didn't go skiing today becasue my cousin had a temperature and and my dad pulled a muscle yesterday when we went on a black diamond ski hill (yes, you read correctly. I am that brave. haha) and these mogules (bumps) came out of nowhere and him and i were bouncing around (oo-er) and he fell. So i went skiing with my brother on his little hill. I still looked like a big cow with my snowpants on, and my mom and i went into the store to see how much all the ski stuff there cost, and the bloody snowpants were 200+ dollars!! AND THEY WERE 30% OFF! SACRE BLEU!!!
We bought socks.
Shut up. They were warming socks because my toes always froze in the ski boots (and they were $20 too. holy shnizah) and i always had to go sit in the caffeteria/cafe and take my feet out of my boots and warm them up. We went to Quebec city tonight!! It was very windy there, but still very very pretty!! It's so.. ye olde village. And there were christmas lights everywhere and all the restaurants were open and it was so warm (even though it was -15 degrees outside). :)
Day4
We went nightskiing today. Too bad becasue it was -27 degrees out!!! Yes. my feet were extra cold tonight, but it was a good night of skiing. Also, i didn't have to wake up extra early just to go skiing. The bad thing was, only about 1/4 of the hills were open for night skiing, so there was a very limited amount of hills i could go on. Oh and before nightskiing, we were supposed to go to Quebec City again, BUT we went to several ski stores because my dad was looking for a place to sharpen the skis that day, but they all said that they would sharpen them tomorrow.
One store went into, my parents decided to buy my little brother a ski mask (otherwise known as a balaklava). Bad idea. My brother was feeling a little tired that day, so he decided to make my life, and my parents life, a living hell, by crying and saying he wanted the extra small ski mask (even though it didnt fit him). The helper guy came up and asked if we needed any help (he was pretty good looking too ;)) and my brother was lying on the floor and grumbling and he wouldn't get up, and i had the BIGGEST urge to say to the guy:
"This is why we have safe sex. So you won't wind up with something like this to handle every day" But my parents were there, and also, it is an offence to my brother.
Went to bed at 1:30am.
Day5
I had to wake up at 9:00 am today to go to Le Massif with my family to see how it is there, but i didnt. HAHAHHAHAHAH. All the adults left and they ditched the kids (my cousin, my brother and i) while we were sleeping, so i had to take care of everyone there myself and i felt like a real grown-up :):) We went skiing today and then we went to a restaurant and it was really delicious and i got really full. Although i felt like my stomach was gonna explode and all the fries and veal and noodles and onion soup (which i loooove) would come out. We came home and my dad goes; "Well, we had that appetizer, let's eat!" and everyone goes "Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Day6
Last day of skiing :( We (meaning the adults) had to wake up very early (but the kids slept in). We had to leave the cottage by 12 so we packed up and left to the montagne (c'est french). Once we got there i skiid alot and i also went down a realy long green circle hill with my brother and he was so good. I was always scared he was gonna fall off the edge of the mountain and into the trees, but thank God he didnt! Then we all went inside and me and my cousin left to ski some more. I dont know where my dad was, but my aunt and uncle left home early becasue of unknown reasons. The last two runs, my dad, cousin, brother and i all went skiing on a blue square!! My brother was so good there and he was doing the little pizza (snow plow) stance thing. On the last run we all fell (except my cousin). I don't even know how i fell... I was turning then all of a sudden i just fall on my side and get up again really quickly :S. Then we left to my aunts house and im sad becasue im not gonna be able to ski on a long hill in some time. poopty peupty pantses.
Yes so that is it for my day by day write up of my french ski trip. And i really dont want to got to school on monday :( But i have to becasue i miss everyone and i will see them again (that's not the only reason i have to though).
Well, i have to get off the computer (becasue im being pressured yet again by my parents to do something hehehe. only joking)
Pip Pip,
Cheerio
-Julia
P.S.
In case you didn't know the ski hill hardness meter (oo-er) i will tell you what it is.
Green Circle- Easy Blue Square- Difficult Black Diamond- Very Difficult Double Black Diamond- Extreme
P.P.S
Its weird because my cousin and i TWICE went to a blue square and green circle hill that went through the forest and it had all these bumps and if was tres hard to keep your balance but it was soo much funn and you had to go around trees and such. (I almost crashed into one once. My cousin fell and i was slowing down and looking at him to see if he was alright, then i look infront of me, and the tree was like 3 cm in front of my face.)
P.P.P.S
Well, I ought to be going now because it is very late and i am very tired. I hope to see you all soon! guten bye.
