I think it been a long time again. I’m sat in the restaurant at lake louise having some lunch. I’m on a pre course level the snowboard instructor level 2. I think I’m becoming accustomed to the cold a little, yesterday it was -10 and felt almost warm! Monday they couldn’t even open the lifts because it’s was over thirty below. People say this is freak cold for this early in winter, but so good for getting used to it. I tend to lose feeling in my toes after twenty minutes outside, and frostbite comes in around ten.
So it hasn’t snowed in a while, just nice and sunny, the sun not feeling warm. But everybody is waiting for the next snow, after all snow is what we came for.
After being here around 5 weeks, alan and I finally have a place to move into, so that’ll end my almost 8 months of homelessness. It’s unfurnished so were trying to find our furniture online at no cost. It’s been done, so doable. I can’t wait to have a home.
So we decide to stay here for the winter, and have season passes for the local hills, so we are totally committed to Banff, expensive as it is.
I have a definately job lined up for January onwards, but only part time, so I’m still looking. But instructing is what I’ve been working towards, so excited!
Most of the time here is spent cold, on the snow, drinking, eating, and having lots of fun meeting new people.
Oh and one bad thing, I failed my level 1 for ski instructing. I passed the teaching but failed the technical skiing. It was pretty ambitious taking the course having barely skied In ten years. So there is a another course next week so I have to get practicing, and make sure I pass this time.
I guess last thing is ???

Photos; cheese, dice and drinks, bingo, robs new car, elk in town, more bingo, me riding, circular rainbow and my leg bruise after landing on a tree

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Alan and I have just been to the mall in Winnipeg, narrowly escaping the busyness. I bought a cover for my iPhone because I have seen so many iPhones with smashed screens. I went for the recycled plastic option. We also got some thermals, it’s going to be a cold winter.
So winnipeg was interesting. Out couchhost was a fun girl, plenty of time having recently been made redundant, along with most of her crazy friends but we spent most of the time partying, there isn’t much else to do in that town. It is the grain trading capital of north America.
And the people there are crazy, many of whom walk around making wierd sounds, screaming or talking to themselves. There’s too much winter, no excitement or hope, not even any population growth, the gun crime capital of Canada so we are told.
So we are now in the real prairies, you can see for miles and miles, forward the road dissappears on straight to the horizon and to the sides are endless yellow field where crops grew in the summer.
It’s so straight and boring that they have giant signs to keep you mind active like odometer checks. But no worries if you fall off the road asleep, there’s nothing to hit.
It’s barely above zero degrees and they’re still harvesting.
So wawa was no too interesting, lots of goose statues.
Thunder bay, out host wasn’t too talkative until we got him a bit drunk, and he hit on us.
So the most important thing we did was go to an employment centre to canadianise our resumes. We’ve applied for several jobs now. Not much response yet.
The car is super dirty because I decided to do some off roading just to wake me up from the boring drive.
Oh and I got myself a lovely yellow hat, mmm warm

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So today has been a wonderland adventure with zoey.
We started off with Breakfast with the bugs and plants in the sun until zoey chipped the top off a molar chewing her muesli! So after some calming, emergency over and back to having fun. I love hanging with her, there’s always soo much laughing smiling and fun. So we had an park hopping walk across Mayfair to selfridges, she’s never ever been before! We had some photos with Santa in Christmas land, and then went to see the icecreamists. Down underground is a sexy ice cream lounge. We sat down in a black ice cream van all vinyl and fluff inside, with the queen in shades at the wheel. At the centre of the table was a red lit up button, and as curiosity would have me do, I pressed it. A couple of seconds later and a loud tune blared out, the tune to call children a running, the ice cream man is coming tune I didn’t go for the most expensive ice cream at £39.99 but the second at almost twenty quid. For that I got some natural stimulant milk ice cream, so toffee like that which adorns your toffee apple, and a shot of La Feé absynthe and even a badge. It was a delightful breakfast, and well worth the money, we even had an ice cream sex show off in our periphery.
Feeling dizzy we wandered the floors of selfridges laughing at the crazy things to buy, playing with the fun bits, and gawping at the funny people. I bought some White powder that when added to some water turns to snow, which turns back to powder and can again turn to snow. To finish off we bought some pies and had a lovely sunny goodbye so off back to dad’s I fly.
Yesterday I had a long walk around doing nothing but feel tired.
After ben finished work we went to a Moroccan restaurant which I’ve wanted to go to for years, so yummi cocktail and grilled halloumi.
Then to brick lane, but there was a music festival on and we weren’t there to pay to get into a bar that we wouldn’t be able to chat in, so the gun by spittlefields, a good old fasioned English pub was just right.
It was wonderful to have almost all of my best London friends all around one table, it made me really happy.
After some trouble and a slagging match with some waiters we found a nice restaurant where the waiter offered us 40% off our meal, bingo! We all heartily stuffed our faces until we couldn’t ven drink any longer.
So I’ve had a very memorable last time for a while in London.
The last few days have been so great, I couldn’t ask for better.
Time to start packing, off to LA tomorrow.

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We’ve been drinking too much and watching family guy too much.
I can’t wait for the season to end, and the drinking to be done!
Saturday ian, courtney, alex, alan and I drove through Italy to lucarno in Switzerland. We went there to do the craziest thing we’d all done in our lives maybe. Coming around the corner to see the dam, all of our hearts stopped. The verzasca dam is the largest bunjee jump off of a dam, at 220m, it was scary to look at. Even more scary to walk along, but stood at the edge of the gantry was fairly nerve wracking. It was a seven second free fall at 120kmh. We then bounced almost all of the way back up. We had to climb up our cord a bit, then hook ourselves up to a cord to pull us back up.
It was awesome to the point at which I can’t describe!!!
Afterwards we had a pizza by lago maggiore, beautiful place, awesome pizza, wonderful drive all day. A day that was amazing, beyond words.
Sunday, alan and I drove to Chamonix to escape, but the skiing was crap, the snow was good but it was snowing too heavily to enjoy. We headed down to town for a proper raclette, the three of us managed to eat a kilo of cheese, which was super painful.
It was the last night of casbah. Which was great, but I won’t be sad to not go there any longer. Too much drinking went on in there, and my body could do with a rest.
Yeatsrday we drank from midday, went to l’atelier for hog roast and party. I had to bring alan home at midnight, hi being too drunk.
Last night of wonderbar tonight, so the same again :s
I’m going to try and get plates for my car this afternoon, so thumbs crossed.
Anne gets here tomorrow, and I haven’t riden much in ages.

So Alan is here, and everybody had last night off work. So much for the plans for a BBQ, it snowed loads. So we had a house party, we were all a mess by five pm. It was a fun evening, with a big bad head day today.
Alan and I managed to go skiing, boarding today, I even took him up mont gele, pretty hardcore for his first day! Maybe thirty cms of powder, now, in April, insane, and awesome!!!
We got my car back from the garage, with the summer tyres
So off to lugarno tomorrow to jump 220m off a dam, same one that James bond did at the beginning of goldeneye. Ace or what.
Good luck to us all.

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it has snowed. it felt like a lifetime and lots of snow had melted, but finally we have some great powder, and i’ve had to great days of riding!

so i’m getting a bit sick of work. it’s probably mostly because everybody else moans a lot, and this bring the general vibe toward a negative feeling. but also my boss is being a real idiot. his girlfriend asked if i wanted to ski one day, sent me her number so i texted her once, and now he’s freaking out thinking i’m after his girlfriend, which is so far from the truth, but he ought to grow up, and be less insecure about his life. he just fired one employee yesterday, another handed in written notice, and if he doesn’t sort himself out, i may as well do the same, and then for the busy easter period, they’ll be quite short staffed, which will suck for the other employees, who will have to work so much harder. it’s a shame for everybody that he’s such an incompetent lazy manager.

i’ll miss the snow, but tomorrow i’m off to greece, analya, to get my tooths fixed. it’s so much less expensive to travel to places liek bulgaria, hungary, greece, and having looked online at reputable, reviewed dentists, i chose greece, being that i have never been there. so i’m trading in snow for the beach. i know i’ll miss verbier. but i really need to escape for a bit, some time to chill and relax. otherwise i’ll probably have to wait until july, so i may as well work this out and make the most of it. i imagine some slight discomfort and excruciating pain when getting this implant!

looking forward to the end of the season, the parties, the sun, the snowpark and alan and anne coming to visit, bring it onnnnnn!

finally after 2 weeks of very little snow and lots of sun, it seemed like all of the snow would soon be gone, and as i speak it is snowing now yay for a powder day!

with christian here and beautiful sunny days, i’ve been out partying so much, so now i need rest. i feel a bit shitty, and need less booze for a while. i want to get soem snowboarding done, and that’s difficult when hangin!

today’s skiing just about killed me, after one sketchy run i could barely hold a bottle to drink from.

well anyway, yesterday was the verbier extreme competition and the finals for the world freeride championship. it was a lovely sunny day and loads of people were perched up on mont fort to watch the action. i don’t think i can imagine how to describe how extreme it is, so watch the video:

so i’m quitre excited about thsi year. we are only 1/4 done and it’s been crazy, i expect it is going to be crazier yet!!!

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heys,

so i’m in mayrhofen, dad al and john went to sleep, and i came back to saiko and pretty much everybody is asleep. i will be soon!

i had a lovely time in innsbruck. anna was very lovely to stay with, and she showed me the town. i got a little drunk off 4 drinks, but put that down to not eating for 4 days. i like the town, people, and especially that they are right below some ski resorts!!

it’s also odd to e in mayrhofen again. i like this place. of all of the resorts that i’ve visited in the past 5 years. only verbier and here have caught my attention as places that have a lot to offer day and night!

i’m staying in a guesthouse, well more of a cheap dutch snowboard refuge. it’s cool. so it’s been snowing and sunny here. today i skiied a load of off piste and my legs certainly aren’t used to it, but i’m still one of the only ones awake. however, i’m not setting my alwarm. it’ll be nice to have a lay in, if the other guys in my dorm don; wake me up!

yeh so my mouth is so so, i eat solid food, but not bread. i have to break up the bread into small bits, as i can’t bit things up, just chew! so friday evening i’m back in verbier to have the stitches out. and i can’t wait to be fixed. i want to be able to smile, eat and talk normally!!!!!!!!

and if you haven’t seen, i’ve uplaoded loads of photos from the season to my facebook account!

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it’s super sunny here right now. it’s strange that the weather forecast is for 30+cm of snow today and heavy snow all week, when it’s sun bathing weather!!!

i’ve just been to geneva this morning. some guys paid me nicely to give them a lift to the airport, so can’t complain. just going to be tired for work tonight.

4 days of work and off to austria!! can’t wait. i love going places, even if i have been there before. mayrhofen is a great place,a nd will be cool to hang with dad.

i’m also spending saturday night in innsbruck with somebody on couchsurfing, so could be cool!

i’m so tired, i have just had a nap before work.

the snow has been great, so i’m trying not to party too much right now. partying has been the reason for not updating, so life hasn’t been too eventful.

i hurt myself snowboarding and just got back to partying due to not want to ride. but after the s & m party the other night i’ve stopped that i hope. for now…

sadism and masachism party in casbah verbier verbier s & m

my car is all working now which is great, and i’m working on sorting out the number plates.

oh and the snowboarding is greeeeeeeeat right now, so back to teh snooooowwww!!!!!

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