Snowboarding is so much harder!

Last Friday, Ikue took Peter and I to Takasu Snow Park for a day of snowboarding. We had the day off from university because the teachers were preparing the university for the national uni entrance exams that was going to be held on that weekend. The poor high schoolers who want to enter any university had to sit for two days of grueling and intense papers in order to JUST QUALIFY to sit for another later official Gifu University entrance exam that is held in March. Ha ha ha, that totally sucks lemons and makes me glad that I only had to sit for only the HSC.

Anyway, I had a good time for the second part of that day. I say that because it really sucked falling down a lot while I was learning how to board. I only started to get the hang of carving later in the afternoon and just as I was getting good, it was closing time. It was such a total rush though once you can get down the mountain without falling too many times. It felt so cool! I think I might be addicted to winter sports which is slightly unfortunate as I live in Sydney. Bit hard to ski or snowboard when the closest snow is half a day away at Perisher!

I can see why the SED doesn’t allow snowboarding during their yearly ski trip. First of all, it is a little bit more expensive and it is so much harder to get the hang off. I fell down three times as much as I did skiing and I guess the SED saw the potential for a lot more injuries if they allowed the option of snowboarding. I’ve done snowboarding once before but even that didn’t really prepare me for doing it again; but with skiing, you learn fairly quickly. By the end of the day, I was so tired and my knees had taken quite a beating from falling down on them soo much. I also took a few hard knocks when I belly-flopped the snow – not fun at all I tell you! But I came away with a sense of accomplishment because I managed to learn a new skill though I’m far from being able to brag about it. Darn, lol!