Thursday, December 25, 2008
SOS
right now I am typing away in a ski resort in some swiss mountains. view here is fabulous, especially when i go higher up with the ski lift.
in the day, i see many skiiers swaying smoothly down the slopes and there are also parachuters. plus the snow capped mountains and wooden houses, gosh... i just prefer to lie down on the snow and eat snow (secretly) rather than tiring myself out by skiing...
i was almost blinded by the snow today because the sky was clear and i didn't have any google or sunnies, but that was not the worst.
the worst was to SOS!
early in the morning, kenneth chiu dragged us out to hit the slopes. gosh, i fell down so many times until i really really wanted to cry so much and give up. i felt so bad and useless at that point of time but then again, the only way to get down to the ground was to ski! so i had to.....
but i got better as I received encouragement from them.. although what i did was really just braking my way down the steep slopes..
took something called the t-bar to get back up the highest point. it looks like a anchor and i was just supposed to be in my ski shoes and let the thing drag me up. not so simple because i had to maintain upright and jump off that thing at the right down...
managed to got it right a couple of times... but i also unglamly fell off twice...
the worst was sos...
to get back to the ground, 3 of us, sam, jo and me, decided to get back to the ski station as skiing all the way down was too tough for us, too steep and too many turns... but but but...
on the t-bar way up, i fell off the thing.. i guess i was really tired and losing my balance... after i fell, i gotta get out of the way immediately because there were people behind me who were being dragged up, i couldn't block the way.
with my heavy ski shoes and board, i tried to drag myself out of the way like a handicapped.
then i got to walk in the deep snow. every step i take, i would sink in to the snow like 20 cm thick, it was damn tiring, especially when i still had to carry my heavy gears. i really really felt like just dying out there....
finally after struggling on my own for like half hour, i met jo... we continued our journey up the snowy slope and we saw our "penguin" walking down... apparently, she fell off the t-bar on the way also... i wanted to reach her but every step i take in my heavy ski shoes was like burning 100 calories.. plus the steepness of the slope. gosh...
there wasnt anyone else there, except the 3 of us.. we were stuck out there in the coldness...
luckily we met SOS! Although i felt so embarrassed to be saved by SOS, i also felt relieved that we received help somehow somewhere in the end...
mama! i am still so traumatized by this! i almost died, haha~