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Therefore, when I reached
the designated spot where we were all supposed to stand in a line before
going down I became acutely aware that, whilst I was happy to wait my turn
to ski down as Andy called out our names, my skis were not! I would
suddenly find myself slowly being drawn downwards by my skis! This would
then result in cries of “Achtung! Achtung!” from me and “Snow-plough!
Snow-plough!” from Andy.
When it came to learning
to turn properly and being on the way to slalom my skis did not want to
help me. I found it was even more difficult to control my skis and when I
should have been turning to the right I found myself turning to the left
and into the arms of a tree! However, I was certainly not the worst pupil
in the class and I was really delighted to see how very well Nick was
taking to skiing and the praise he was justly being given by Andy.
After lunch we took the
Allmendhubelbahn again up to the blue run, this time not to descend on a
sledge. As we nervously put on our skis ready for the descent it seemed a
crazy idea given our lack of experience. Nick set off first and quickly
seemed to relax into his skiing whilst gaining confidence all the time. On
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