Tango Appassionata

Returned from the Ski trip a while ago...



Body aching all over. Even typing is painful...



I'll try to be brief, need rest after all; school starts again tomorrow.



Eleanor called everyone up at 6am (wake-up call). Luckily Mike picked me up instead of having my grumpy dad drivin' me. We got to his place and met up with Elie and Jo who came soon later. The four of us headed off to Safeway first to do some last-minute shopping. Picked up snacks and extras. Next, we drove to Sport Mart to pick up our gear and be first greeted by the dick caucasian we met up with on Wednesday. We stood around for the guy to pass us our stuff and asks Mike for his credit card for the deposit-like thing. He tries to swipe it but fails to do so. He then calls up Visa to charge the card. Soon enough, Mike gets a phone call from the bank to warn him the caucasian was double swiping. Even soon later, Visa calls to ask about the double swiping. Then we have the caucasian and Mike both talking on the phone to the companies at the same time which took a good half n hour to finish. The caucasian acts all innocent and claims he doesn't know where the extra $200 comes from and says he didn't do and blahblah. His name is John. And he works at the Cambie Sport Mart. Find him. Get to know him will ya.



We got back to Mike's place and stuffed in the food in our already-fully-packed sacks. Jo and I then rushed to do school fee payment before we forget to find that the fee payment system's fux0r3d. We waste a great deal of time on it and finally give up. We rush to UBC, had McDix for brunch and park on the wrong side of the SUB. We're forced to drag all the heavy luggage to the other side of the SUB where the bus was waiting. Jo and I rush to the library to use the computers and successfully pay our school fees. We take a pee break and run like mad back to the bus where everyone was waiting. We end up getting crap seats by the washroom. Mike and I both had empty seats beside us so Wataru took the seat by me. The poor buy must've been bored to death cuz I was anti-social throughout the whole bus ride. Watched movies, though nothing was interesting enough so I attempted to sleep and listened to music. Ended up watching one movie out of the three... can't remember what it was. The bus dies half-way because of break problems so we end up waiting an hour for a replacement bus. We transfer busses and get on our way. We stop at Coquitlam for late lunch break. Had McDix FISH FRIDAYS. Good stuff. Bus driver gased himself with gas and made us wait in the cold for a good half n hour or so as he went to change his clothes. Went on our way again. We had a washroom break somewhere. We finally arrived at Big White! It was dark by then (8pm or something), and everyone was disappointed because we were delayed so much.



We unpacked. Got our crap rooms (compared to the other rooms on the other floors that the other guys got ;_;). Got dressed and went out for some night skiing. Since it was our first time there, we didn't know where was what. Instead of going for night skiing, we (Jo, Elie and myself) practised some boarding on a mini slope in the village. It was my first time boarding so I learned how to horizonal board and balance and get up and etc. After an hour plus, we headed back to our rooms and made ourselves some pasta. Watched a bit of TV and died. We were awaken at 7am by the wake-up call guys. It took us an hour to actually get up. Had soup, I think, for breakfast. Dressed and headed out. Practised at the closest and greenest slope, Hummingbird. Seemed like forever to get down. When we got down, Mike and Elie took the wrong lift back up and ended up somewhere high up. Jo and I went down the Hummingbird a few more. Jo gave up and went back to the room while the three of us decided to take on the same slope they accidentally took earlier. It was so fuking cold when we got up, our entire face and the head too hurt like hell we all wanted to cry. The wind was painful like shiet. Going down sorta sucked with Mike constantly screaming "GET UP GET UP GOGOGO"... made me wanna slap him for rushing me. We headed off for lunch after the slope that seemed like it took forever too. We had pasta/soup for lunch back in our rooms, watched the programs that were constantly being repeated on Muchmusic all throughout the winter break. We headed out again and tried out the opposite green slope from the "Easy Out/Highway 33" we took earlier that day called S... Scrwa--... I forget the name. Well it sucked either way. Mike and Elie headed off down without us as me and Jo struggled for dear life on this crap slope that had crap steepness and then sudden FLATNESS. After a long roll down the slope, we checked to find that we were only HALFWAY DOWN. With only 10 mins left before the lifts were going to close, we gave up walked down the rest of the way. The slope took us 2 bloody hours. We went straight back to our rooms right after to warm up. The other two met up with us afterwards back in the room and to also spread the bad news that nightskiing was prohibited that night because it was up to -60 degrees calcius outside (=instant death). We showered, and ate and talked and was visited by a Japanese visitor -- YOSHI (aka. GREEN MAN :D!)... They invited us to join them in their crazy parties upstairs but we were too dead tired to move. We finished up a few bottles of alcohol we left from the New Years party... we brought too little. We slept after, though it seemed harder to sleep that night.



At 7:30, the wake-up call woke us up. We slowly got up this time and finished the left over cans. We packed up, moved our luggage and checked out a bit after 10am. Mike went to join the Japanese crew for some of their hardcore boarding that was too hardcore for us amateurs. Jo didn't feel like boarding because of the soreness so she slept in the lobby instead. Elie and I went down the Hummingbird a few times for warmup and then headed up the Easy Out/Highway 33 and came down quite quickly this time (woohoo! proud of myself!). We bumped into the injured-by-the-tree Mike to get the camera back from him and decided to do some sight seeing by taking the Gondola down. We took some silly pictures when we arrived at the bottom and looked around and find a good place to eat. We went to spread the good news to Jo, changed, and came back down. Mike was determined to board more so he ate quickly and headed back up. The three of us ate slowly and talked and headed up as well. With good timing, we loaded up the bus and met up with the others. Got on the bus and got going. This time I sat with Kazu... Wataru must've realized my anti-socialness and got a new seat asap. :D The bus washroom apparently froze, so it was out of order but it stunk up the bus nonetheless. Kazu's singing ish really amusing.. :D But he sleeps with his mouth open, so it looks like he's about to drool at any moment D: ... I slept a bit luckily but woke up when we arrived at West Bank for early dinner. Then I soon realized I put my luggage on the wrong BUS... I ordered myself some hot water, as Jo and Elie ate. Mike got candy from the nice Wendy's old lady :D... Got back on the bus, slept a bit more and missed the beginning of American Pie 2, so I didn't watch it at all... people stopped for the last washroom break before the long ride. I didn't get off though. Headed off again. After American Pie 2, we watched Catch Me If You Can, which I watched (Leo's in it :D!)... We didn't get to finish the movie though.. ;_; Unloaded when we arrived. Moved my luggage to the SUB and waited for the next bus. Everyone else left. The other bus arrives, I get my luggage, Mike comes to pick me up, we go and eat at Golden Award in Richmond for dinner. I go home. Mom yells about the fact that I have to return the rentals before noon tomorrow. She spazzes like mad. I tell her I'll do it on my break tomorrow. I sigh, I attempt to finish this really fast with the pain my arms, with the preppy Goto Maki music playing in the background, receiving the Simon Party files from Phillip, talking to my LTNS cool cousin that works day and night, and thinking about how shit school will be when it starts up again tomorrow... damn.



*looks up* Damn that wasn't brief at all...

Wishlist: MY OWN SNOWBOARD! YAR!