That verb has come up a lot since I arrived in Santiago. I finally decided/remembered to look it up. Sharing some knowledge is always a good thing, right?
Anyway, yesterday was Friday. Most of us, if not all of us, don't have any classes on Fridays so we have some group trips planned. We went skiing in the Andes yesterday. It was a blast. I can only remember one other time I have been skiing. I didn't like it at all. I wasn't going to even sign up for this trip, but everyone else in the group did, so I succumbed to peer pressure and actually ended up enjoying myself. See, sometimes peer pressure is a great thing. How else am I going to know what to like unless society tells me? A lot of people like to ski and would kill to have the chance to ski in the Andes, so I had to take advantage of the opportunity.
We had a quick lesson before I hit the bunny slope. I was nervous because I didn't expect to have any sort of success. All of my attempts to make light of my inadequacies with bad jokes fell flat. Our instructor was English, so it wasn't a language barrier thing, the jokes were just really bad. But a lot of you would have expected that.
I didn't fall at all during the lesson and had a pretty successful first run. I went down the bunny slope and had a blast. Trying to get back up the T-bar lift for the second time proved difficult. I got half way up and then lost my grip and fell. I tried to ski back down and try again, but I skied right into a snow bank and got stuck. It was hilarious. When Alli posts the pictures on Facebook, I'll add one here. I finally got un-stuck and made my way back to the ski lift to try again. I fell after about 30 seconds of holding on. It was embarassing. I finally got back up the hill and went down again. I'm not a skier, but I no longer hide in the corner when someone mutters the phrase "ski trip."
In an effort to not take myself as seriously as I used to, I bought a ridiculously obnoxious, 80s, one-piece ski-suit from a thrift store for less than $4 US.
That one was for Ben Jay, Jeremy Guterl, and Ian Hainline. Thanks guys. You better appreciate the sacrifices I made to dawn this thing in public in a foreign country.
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