In the wee hours in the morning, we took a cab down from Bundoora to the city where the travel agent was. We booked our day trip with ExtraGreen. yes, the cheena one. There were like tons of people (predominantly asians, with very familiar accents) before 6am at Swanston St. Lol @ the motivation to go skiing.
By the time we got there, it was about 10am. However, our bus guide was extremely disorganised and didn't take long to lose us (Yes, she lost us). We were completely lost and didn't know where to go to get our equipments. Eventually, the staff redirected us. But, we wasted so much time trying to get our ski equipment and we were extremely late for the lesson. It takes a whole lot of effort to walk with those ski boots, and we have to carry the super duper heavy skis up a steep slope to where the learning area was. Very tiring...
Well, we got started with our lessons. We haven't mastered anything ie braking and turning and our instructor was more than happy to leave us and dump us there. Now, I don't sound very pleased with the ski trip's experience. We didn't know where to go, so we attempted a slope that looked less steep nearby. However, instructors in that area were very pissed with noobs like us because we didn't know how to brake properly and started crashing into kids learning how to ski in that same area. Sheeeesh!! give us signs to tell us where to go or something instead of reprimanding us! Those instructors didn't even bother to help us up. Meanos... They should kinda allocate areas for beginners like us to practise our skills and recommend areas we can proceed to when we're slightly more confident of our skills. Also, if there's going to be vulnerable kids learning in an area which is for the general public anyway, put up signs telling people to be more cautious or something!!
Since noobies weren't welcomed anywhere... I thought, it's either we ski down the slope to the bottom of the hill or get stuck in the middle of nowhere (our learning spot was like...in the middle of the main ski slope). I spent some time figuring out to brake and i eventually did =D I was quite happy, so I just went for the biggest slope ever for the beginner and skiied down (slowly of course). I crashed and rolled =D haha! it was so much fun I climbed up the slope again and skiied down again. I found a less steep path later, which was pretty much invisible cos it was hidden at the side. I went there and started speeding. I guess that's when my ski trip became more interesting =D
And yes, after that day, I got sick. Didn't know why but I probably caught a cold. The throat was sore for a week and I got a temporary pyrexia couple of days ago. That feeling was awful.I also had my first attempt at making quiche! It's this cheese + egg baked dish. I added potatoes, spinach and corn in the quiche. Kinda burnt on the top because I didn't cover with aluminium foil. Turned out a bit watery as well because I added milk even though I'm not really supposed to. Oh well, the taste is there!!
