Winter Wonderland

Today I went snow boarding for the first time. I don't know how I've lived in Idaho for 22 years of my life without ever trying to ski or snowboard. it just doesn't seem natural, I know. Anyways, we left around 5:00 this evening and did the night ski at kelly's canyon.

I have a friend in the snowboarding class who was able to help me rent a board for pretty cheap and show me the basics. It was really fun. I loved it! I have a bit of a natural talent at it I think. I did very well for my first time. Actually, I'm almost as good as my friend after one night. My biggest problem is just stopping without falling down after a run. I can stop fine if I'm still on a slope, but stopping on level ground makes me fall every time. for whatever reason.


In one night I got to the point of doing connected turns... well, I did two before I fell over. It was awesome. I was doing a falling leaf my first time on the real hill. The bunny hill was okay to learn how to stop on, but after that it basically sucked. I couldn't even stop on it after I learned how to do it on a real hill. I even when down the main run once. I only fell once when little kid swerved in front of me. To miss him, I steered into a block of ice and caught an edge. It was a pretty cool rolling crash though.

School is going alright. I'm worried about a few of my classes (mainly the CompE224 class). I don't know how things will turn up, but I'm doing fine in most of them. I have to start working pretty seriously on a research paper for my English class. I've been putting it off like crazy, but it's about to catch up with me. I've managed to keep up on all of my programming assignments so far. If only I could stay awake and understand my CompE class, I'd be fine. Well. it's almost time for me to attempt to sleep, so I'll end this here. Snowboarding is AWESOME!!!!