Well..........
9 kids this morning.
2 complete space cadets.
1 almost teenager who was miserable.
2 fell off a trail we were skiing along, that was a long climb back up, with their skis and mine. Not cool. Under a chairlift with people laughing, not the most fun, probably put my back out cos I caught the second one but she was not the smallest!
Then when I thought it was all ok on the bus on the way back, one started playing a game of hitting himself on the helmet with his skis. With his last shot he missed his helmet and whacked one of his teeth out. GENIUS.
Just had my lunch and finally seems to have calmed down, except some one just tripped the lock on the staff room door, so we were locked in for a while.
I am off staff training for the arvo, I wonder what will happen................
Jules
Sunday 29 July 2007
Tuesday 17 July 2007
First day off!
17th July, we have been working for a few weeks now, we have managed to get up one pay scale, so we have managed almost 100 teach hours, every 75, we get a raise which is a pretty good incentive. Weather today is awful so I am pretty pleased to have given up my class! Yes I am a wimp, ah well. Nick is out there with one of his worst hangovers in a while, plus a pretty big bump on his head from when he fell over running for the bus. Pretty funny, not sure he thinks so! He managed to fall about 4 times in the same place, bit like some awful comedy sketch, so he has bruises on his hips and knees also, none so impressive as the head tho, as it is accompanied by a lump.
Anyways, neither of us has lost a child. Nick got chocolates at the end of last week from one family of kids he taught for the week, they were a bunch of loonies from Western Australia somewhere. And he got a request private, so he is in the good books, tho they did ask for 'Scottish Nick', so he almost did not go! He soon put them straight.
Most instructors on the hill today are hungover or still drunk, as it was staff night last night and prior to that the Snowpix - the annoying guys that come and take your picture and make you pay for the photo - threw us a party which started at half four with free beer and barbie, to convince us to stop with our classes etc. Good fun tho, on kids race day they take pics of us too, and we try and do silly/clever/amusing things, so we now have a photo caption wall. The winner this week was a guy called Corey who has lost at least one child each day, and he looked spaced out, so he has a bubble saying 'where are my kids' and a thought bubble saying ' i love my job' cos it sure as hell does not look like he does. Anyway, it makes sense if you see it, so I will stop trying to explain that now. It is funny, that is all you need to know.
My cousin, Laura, is a doctor now, so Congratulations Lor!!!
Last Wednesday we went out to darts night, Nick was put on a team, he did ok, I was not trusted to throw darts so provided moral support with a beer in my hand. Made for a fun night, Nick and I had our first Jager bombs, awful drinks, as you would imagine because they involve jagermeister, which is every where here. Great. One guy informed me for twenty minutes how bad at my job was, as he had seen me get my class on the bus earlier that day and apparently the way I treated them, he would not want his kids treated like that. Pleasingly he has no kids and he went on the get thrown out for being so drunk. The next event was our lift home losing her jacket and thus he car keys, so after looking around the bar for half an hour for the jacket and failing, we proceeded to drink more to help the situation and then got a lift home with a bouncer, after carrying a realy heavy TV inside that was in the back of the truck we got a lift in. Bizarre. Work thursday was fun after a few hours sleep, we were in bed by 9pm and asleep by 9:05pm to recover. Nick had one of his two day hangovers.
We had a roast dinner sunday, and I managed, after smashing one pot because it may not have been for the oven, oops, to cook Yorkshire puddings, delicious. Not my best, but they were not too bad. Not as flat as Auntie Ann's tho!!
Well, the bus should be here soon, so I am off home to cook some meals and whack 'em in the freezer. Photos to follow hopefully, I keep promising but am as yet to find a means to get them onto a computer!
Jules and Nick xx
Anyways, neither of us has lost a child. Nick got chocolates at the end of last week from one family of kids he taught for the week, they were a bunch of loonies from Western Australia somewhere. And he got a request private, so he is in the good books, tho they did ask for 'Scottish Nick', so he almost did not go! He soon put them straight.
Most instructors on the hill today are hungover or still drunk, as it was staff night last night and prior to that the Snowpix - the annoying guys that come and take your picture and make you pay for the photo - threw us a party which started at half four with free beer and barbie, to convince us to stop with our classes etc. Good fun tho, on kids race day they take pics of us too, and we try and do silly/clever/amusing things, so we now have a photo caption wall. The winner this week was a guy called Corey who has lost at least one child each day, and he looked spaced out, so he has a bubble saying 'where are my kids' and a thought bubble saying ' i love my job' cos it sure as hell does not look like he does. Anyway, it makes sense if you see it, so I will stop trying to explain that now. It is funny, that is all you need to know.
My cousin, Laura, is a doctor now, so Congratulations Lor!!!
Last Wednesday we went out to darts night, Nick was put on a team, he did ok, I was not trusted to throw darts so provided moral support with a beer in my hand. Made for a fun night, Nick and I had our first Jager bombs, awful drinks, as you would imagine because they involve jagermeister, which is every where here. Great. One guy informed me for twenty minutes how bad at my job was, as he had seen me get my class on the bus earlier that day and apparently the way I treated them, he would not want his kids treated like that. Pleasingly he has no kids and he went on the get thrown out for being so drunk. The next event was our lift home losing her jacket and thus he car keys, so after looking around the bar for half an hour for the jacket and failing, we proceeded to drink more to help the situation and then got a lift home with a bouncer, after carrying a realy heavy TV inside that was in the back of the truck we got a lift in. Bizarre. Work thursday was fun after a few hours sleep, we were in bed by 9pm and asleep by 9:05pm to recover. Nick had one of his two day hangovers.
We had a roast dinner sunday, and I managed, after smashing one pot because it may not have been for the oven, oops, to cook Yorkshire puddings, delicious. Not my best, but they were not too bad. Not as flat as Auntie Ann's tho!!
Well, the bus should be here soon, so I am off home to cook some meals and whack 'em in the freezer. Photos to follow hopefully, I keep promising but am as yet to find a means to get them onto a computer!
Jules and Nick xx
Tuesday 26 June 2007
Australia
Well things have finally settled for us. We are in Mount Hotham, I have just taught my first paid lesson, woohoo. Nick has an all day session which is cool.
Last night in the hostel, Melbourne, we got back at 1 ish. 3am the first groupd came back, but they did not go to bed, there was running up and down the corridors, arguments about keys, the girls in our room decided that there was some long lost treasure in the bottom of her bag she had to find and rummaged for sooooo long!! Took them an hour to shut up, new roomie kept coming in and out, no apparent reason. The boys came in just after 6, they started snoring and we gt up at 6:45, think we may have disturbed them slightly, but the snoring soon came back!! So no worries.
Bus trip up from Melbourne quite comfy, abeit quite long, watched a couple of films, the bus driver told me all about his dairy and beef farm and the 40000 dollars of hay he has had to buy, all very interesting really!! Did see a kangaroo tho, just outside melbourne.
Hiring clinic at falls all good fun, got to the end of the week and I think everyone else was more shocked than us at the fact we did not get a job, but we have one now and the skiing is much better here. They told us friday and then we had to be here (hotham) by sat arvo, we made it cos a legend of a guy said we could stay at his and then he drove us over here. Awesome.
We have a place to live, called Moose's!! Pretty cool place, some rowdy house mates, but all pretty cool. One lent us a dooner (duvet) which is very nice of her, we have to go to the big smoke (well not that big) which is an hour away to get one. Without a car this is proving difficult. Soon tho.
Only bus to work at the mo is the half 7 job, great news, tho it is the only reason we got work this morning, as we were sat here as bright as buttons ready to go!! We get free staff training some days to work on our skiing.
A massive weather front is just coming over us, so we may even get a little powder next week or so. (But rain is coming first, of course!)
Bit of a ramble, but hey, it is most of the important news, oh and I stroked a wombat at the zoo, so cute.
Jules and Nick
Last night in the hostel, Melbourne, we got back at 1 ish. 3am the first groupd came back, but they did not go to bed, there was running up and down the corridors, arguments about keys, the girls in our room decided that there was some long lost treasure in the bottom of her bag she had to find and rummaged for sooooo long!! Took them an hour to shut up, new roomie kept coming in and out, no apparent reason. The boys came in just after 6, they started snoring and we gt up at 6:45, think we may have disturbed them slightly, but the snoring soon came back!! So no worries.
Bus trip up from Melbourne quite comfy, abeit quite long, watched a couple of films, the bus driver told me all about his dairy and beef farm and the 40000 dollars of hay he has had to buy, all very interesting really!! Did see a kangaroo tho, just outside melbourne.
Hiring clinic at falls all good fun, got to the end of the week and I think everyone else was more shocked than us at the fact we did not get a job, but we have one now and the skiing is much better here. They told us friday and then we had to be here (hotham) by sat arvo, we made it cos a legend of a guy said we could stay at his and then he drove us over here. Awesome.
We have a place to live, called Moose's!! Pretty cool place, some rowdy house mates, but all pretty cool. One lent us a dooner (duvet) which is very nice of her, we have to go to the big smoke (well not that big) which is an hour away to get one. Without a car this is proving difficult. Soon tho.
Only bus to work at the mo is the half 7 job, great news, tho it is the only reason we got work this morning, as we were sat here as bright as buttons ready to go!! We get free staff training some days to work on our skiing.
A massive weather front is just coming over us, so we may even get a little powder next week or so. (But rain is coming first, of course!)
Bit of a ramble, but hey, it is most of the important news, oh and I stroked a wombat at the zoo, so cute.
Jules and Nick
Thursday 3 May 2007
A few pics....05/06 winter
A few images from the first winter season in Peisey.....
Nick and the valley we work in through the winter (Peisey Nancroix).
Nick and the valley we work in through the winter (Peisey Nancroix).
Skihiver team 05/06.
The pharmacist trys to work out what is actually in the Grolle!
Soph appears to not like what is in it!
An evening trip home, after a long lunch, no wine involved?!
Tough views in the mountains!
The valley where we work in the winter in France, the Bellecote mountain is on the right.
This was for charity!
After an off piste run, the one Jordi managed to complete on his board rather than with Jules carrying it! Plus without pulling a tree out by its roots!
On the North face of the Bellecote, Fred making a call to check there is no avalanche risk, nice!May 3rd 2007
Well, hello all, it has been 18 months since we left the real world and began our 'seasonal' working. And after two great winter seasons in Peisey Nancroix (pictured left) and one mediocre season on the west coast of France, we are now seeking a season in Australia. We qualified as ski instructors last Friday after two pretty hectic weeks in Zermatt, Switzerland. Now we are back home and killing time while waiting to get our visas through, so setting up a blog seemed to make sense!
Hope it helps you kill a few minutes at work. :)
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