A personal note to Mr.Thompson,

I am truly sorry that I haven't been the best student lately. I admit I'm slightly falling behind on the assignments but I promise I'll stick too it. A lot is going on in my life right now and I'm sure it's close to impossible for you to care at all about my life outside of school because there's no excuse to not get my work done. I understand and will try harder. I hope you've had a good weekend!

Snowboarding

Today I learned how to snowboard at Wolf Mountain, it was as hard as I thought it would be. At first I was having huge troubles even getting up it's a lot harder than my friend made it look. That only gave me more determination to prove myself too him and the family that was randomly watching me on the ski lifts. It took me a while to get used to how hard you need to flex your legs to consistently keep up your balance and keep the front part of your board above the snow to resist flying forwards. I, however, am an extremely well visual learner. When I saw my friend Brandon do it I knew what to do. It may have taken me a few times considering I've been skiing since I could walk, you could only dream of how confusing this was for me to change too. I eventually got the hang of it and I can now do what I suppose they call the 'Leaf'. It's still rather hard for me to go just straight forward though, because when you do that when you sky you go too fast and end up crashing. So it's still the skier in me still holds me back from doing certain things snowboarding related well or without caution. As soon as my dad knew that I could walk I was put onto ski's. We still have pictures of me when I was so little, I'd say I was about 4 years old when some of the pictures were taken. The thing that I don't get is I've been skiing longer than some professionals, and yet I'm still not that good at it. I can't do any tricks, I can't go backwards, I can't maneuver around powder, etc. But I got snowboarding right away, and not to be cocky but I'm rather good at it for doing it for such a short period of time. Towards the end of the day it got really awkward because my dad wanted me and my little sister to go on the lift one time insisting that Brandon, my guest, sit with him. It was really weird considering he had never came over or anything of that sort. Which is why sitting with a friends parent whom you barely know when it's just you two is pretty terrible. I'm pretty sure almost everyone has had this happen. I apologize, I tend to get off subject, any way... It was one of those gestures that me and Brandon both thought he was going to do the whole 'are you dating my daughter?' type of situation on the lift up. I was happy when we finally got too the top because I could only imagine how awkward that that was. Today I realized that I as a matter of fact enjoy snowboarding more than I enjoy skiing. I will still ski and possibly teach my children how to ski if I'm even remotely better by then, but I will now fit snowboarding into my schedule. Split the two sports up fairly.