Here you go!

Hey there!

So I don't really have a WHOLE lot to update since last time, but I promised that if I got some comments I would, so here goes :-)

I've been in Les Gets for almost a month now, which I can't believe. My how time flies! Now that Christmas vacation is over, we have a bit of a restful month of January when there aren't as many tourists, and we don't have any visitors at the house. So I'm taking advantage of January to get in lots and lots of skiing (of course!). I've made it to Avoriaz (the farthest town that my pass works for) once and it was awesome! But it takes me about an hour to get there and an hour back so it really is a full day trip. I'm still working 2 mornings a week plus any babysitting I manage to find (last night I was babysitting until 4:30 in the morning, so I'm taking a bit of a breather today). Last week I made it out to the Canadian bar here and met a bunch of people; Unfortunately they were all tourists and all left yesterday, but it was nice to hang out with some different people and I even got to do some skiing with them. I really start to appreciate how great it is to be able to speak english AND french when I'm with a group of 6 or so people, half of which can't really speak french and the other half of which can't really speak english. It's happened a few times where I'm the only one in a group that can communicate fairly easily with everyone there, and I love it! Hopefully I'll make it out again soon (although I'm babysitting a lot this week at night) and meet some people that are here for longer than a week.

What else is new? Yesterday I went searching to see if there was somewhere I could do a few gates, or if there was anything comparable to Masters races at home, but unfortunately I was unsuccessful in finding anything. It seems anything gates/racing related is reserved for kids and the only thing for adults is lessons, which I'm entirely not interested in.

I have a bit of a better plan of what I'm doing now. I found out my Dal interview is on March 4th, so I'm sticking with my original return flight of February 28th (worked out pretty perfectly for booking 8 months in advance!!) I may stay here right until the end, or I may leave a couple weeks early to perhaps get a bit of travelling in and visit the Pig one last time (plus with February being so busy and my family having tons and tons of visitors, it may work out easier for them too if they have an extra room). But as usual, nothing is definate and everything is bound to change in the next month and a half or so.

I can't believe how little time I have left in Europe. It feels like I've been here forever, yet arriving in June seems like just yesterday. It's going to be bittersweet to leave because while I'll definately be looking forward to getting home, seeing everyone and regaining any luxuries that I've given up here, it's been the trip of a lifetime and I don't want it to end!!

I guess that's all for now. I might not update again for a while since we only have dialup here plus nothing all that exciting really happens to me here (except the amazing skiing, but I feel I've rubbed that in all your face enough already :-P).

Until next time!
Kaila