Saturday, January 06, 2007

Snow for the first time

Excitement!!!
Me and Gillian we visited Måri, a friend in Ål who was in Kenya last year through Hald. It was on 29th Dec and we arrived in the evening. It was so special for us to find snow at Mari's place because we had been longing for it since we arrived in Norway more than four months ago.
I could hadly wait for the following day inorder to touch the snow and get outside to see clearly. It looked so white and beautiful. Making a beautiful thick cover n the ground and the houses and trees.
It was so soft to touch and a bit scary to walk on because their compound is hilly and rocky and so slippery because of the snow that has melted and solidified to form a rock beneath the soft cover.

Skiing, so much fun














It was breathtaking just to be out on Ski's and trying it out in the mountains. They were kind of heavy at first and it was so hard to balance and relax. So i fell numerous times on that first day. Somehow it was not painful because the snow is so soft and it was a lot of it so its was a soft landing. Måri was offering the lessons and she was so patient. It took a while to learn how to go uphill. We had to make a Vshape with the Ski's to ensure we don't slide down slope. However the hardest part was going downslope. Its because balancing my weight on the ski without using the sticks is so hard. It was interesting to slide and fall many times and get back up again.

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