Hello all. I am very overdue for some posts, so I will be making a couple of them today. This one is about Winter Blitz. WB was an amazing trip. We went to Axams, Austria, and stayed in a hotel up in the mountains. The ski lifts left from right behind the hotel, and the runs all ended at the back of it. Very nice set up. As I said in the last post, went snowboarding for the first time ever. It was a lot of fun, but I did break a rib doing it. It's ok, a little painful, but it's fine.
The highlight for me for the week, besides the amazing location, was getting to spend good quality time w/ the teens who were on the trip. Some of them a knew pretty well going into it, others I knew very little. It was a great week of relationship building. I also had the opportunity to spend good one on one time, asking personal questions, talking about how things are going in their lives. I got a lot of very honest, and sometimes very painful, answers and we had some great conversations. I have been able to continue certain talks in the weeks following winter blitz. That is something I love about trips. Spending a week straight together develops relationships at a very accelerated rate, which is useful when many of the students I am working with are moving in the summer.
Let's see, other highlights....This place had the best sled run I have ever seen. It was 6 km long. Not sure how fast you could get going, but it was really fast. Towards the end of the week it became pretty dangerous and had to be shut down. I would guess you could get going 40-50 km hr or so. That is just a guess. Really cool. One days we went into Innsbruck and went to a water park. The best thing about that was the slide that had two loops. Only double looped slide in the world, apparently. You stepped into this tube, and the doors closed around you. The floor then opened up and you shot down into the slide.
I have tested my snowboarding skills once since winter blitz. We went on a day there was no school with 13 high schoolers. It was raining, which wasn't a lot of fun, but the snowboarding was. Thankfully, I have improved a lot since the first few days of Winter Blitz. I am now able to make it down the run w/ out falling on my face or backside.
I suggest looking at pics on facebook, i am tagged in different ones from winter blitz to give you an idea of what it looked like. My camera was broken, so I didn't take any myself. Sad, but there are a lot from other people.
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