I learned a lot during my first year at Colorado Mountain College.
Academically,
Intro to Ski Area Operations: There really isn't one thing that sticks out in my mind as far as what we learned because we learned so much about so many different things. It is definately a good introductory class to the program.
Leadership Development: I learned a lot about different leadership styles.
Outdoor Emergency Care: I learned a lot about first aid and had a lot of fun doing scenarios. However, I had no desire to continue studying medicine- one doctor in the family is more than enough.
Technical Math: I loved this class for the sole reason that I actually understood what it was that I was doing. We did a lot of algebra type of stuff, which I never did grasp in high school.
Heavy Equipment Operations: I learned how an engine works- at least sort of. I also learned how to operate a backhoe, a bulldozer, a compactor, and a giant machine (whose name I do not remember) that moved with incredibly jerky movements while I was trying to operate it. At times I really wondered why I was in the lab, but I think it helped me a lot in the class, and some of it transferred to Grooming class too.
PC Applications: I learned of the cost savings of buying textbooks online.
Ropeway Operations: I learned how gondolas, chairlifts, and surface lifts work. I probably should have taken the lab also because I didn't always grasp concepts as well as I maybe could have. Refer to "Words of Wisdom" below.
Events Management: This was my favorite class this semester. We organized and put on a rail jam. The class had multiple stressful moments and there were times where I honestly expected Paul to be yelling at us for how disorganized we were, but he never did and the rail jam went well.
Public Speaking: I learned that classes are not always what they sound like. For example, I spent more time writing in this class than I did speaking.
Trail Grooming: We were told how to groom different types of snow, taught about the evolution of grooming, and learned about the job in general.
Ski Patrol: I think one of the most interesting things I learned were the day that we learned about avalanches. The day that the avalanche dog came in was also fun.
Food & Beverage: This was another class that I really enjoyed this semester. It was an online class and was completely reliant on the textbook, review questions, and weekly quizzes but as long as I got everything turned in by Friday of each week, it all worked out.
Word of Advice: Take the labs. I did not take Ropeways lab because I did not think that it sounded that exciting, but it probably would have helped me in Ropeways lecture, plus you get to ski at several different ski areas in the state.
Note to future students: do not procrastinate. If Paul tells you that you should start working on a project now, you should probably take his advice. When he tells you that you should work a little bit on the project each week, do so.
Other lessons, which I learned outside of the classroom, have also proven to be useful.
Lesson #1.
There are college professors with facebook. These professors just might read your status messages. Even if you are 21, they probably do not want to know if you have been drunk for 15 nights straight. During class, if they have recently read status messages such as the one I just mentioned, they will remind you that employers may look at your facebook and that such messages do not look so good. After awhile, these reminders get old, so for your classmates sake, please do not write such messages on your facebook. If you want to write such status messages, might I suggest that you not add your professors as friends on facebook.
Lesson #2.
Do not think that just because this is college, there is no drama. CMC Timberline is a small campus. Along with drama, the small campus makes for some interesting rumors. If you just go along with most of it, life is easier. Heck, at times it is even amusing. "I'm dating who?"
Lesson #3.
Avoid sitting at a level lower than someone holding a solo cup because it is quite probable that the contents of the cup will end up on you. If you are like my mom and do not know what a solo cup is, it's those red plastic cups. Now use your imagination to figure out what might be in those cups.
Lesson #4.
Believe it or not, not everyone at college drinks every night. After all, someone at the party has to be the DD. There are even people that do not drink at all, and yes, these people still do manage to have fun.
Lesson #5.
There are alternatives to beer pong. Such as "white grape cocktail" juice pong. Although, less exciting tasting, there is also water pong. Water is good- drink lots of it- like 3x as much as you think is necessary and then some.
Lesson #6.
Professors like you more if you actually talk to them once in a while and it definately makes your life easier. Oh, and refer to your class schedule before making travel plans.
Lesson #7.
Buy an ethernet cord before arriving in Leadville. Your roommate will think you're really clever for thinking of such a thing and it's a lot more enjoyable then getting there, finding out you need one, going to Alco and discovering that they are out, suffering from Facebook withdrawal, and not getting a cord until a week later when you have made the trip to Frisco to go to Walmart.
Lesson #8.
This is not high school. You do not need a notebook for every class. It's more like a notebook per semester. Unless you are in math class, then you actually need a notebook for that specific class. If you buy a notebook for every class, you will end up coming home with almost as many notebooks as you went to school with. Also, invest in a USB drive before getting to Leadville, it'll save you a trip to Walmart. Why a USB drive? College professors tend to not want to decode your horrible handwriting, so they make you type up all of your out-of-class assignments. Even if you have a laptop, you will still need a USB drive for PC Apps and just generally running around campus with random documents (save your ink- print your assignments in the library or a computer lab).
Lesson #9.
Wii bowling may become way more entertaining than you ever thought possible. Start practicing now.
Lesson #10.
Do not wait until the last minute to sign up for a class that you really really want to take. You will likely end up on the wait list. When you do sign up early and get that class you really wanted, pay your bill right away so that you do not get bumped out of the class by not paying your bill.
Lesson #11.
Do not bring a whole bunch of skirts, dresses, or other nice clothes. You will not end up wearing these clothes. One nice outfit is probably a good idea, but you don't need any more than that one. Also, you do not need to bring your overflowing closet of clothes. You will end up getting to CMC and realizing that your clothes do not fit in your closet.
Well, now I'm back in South Dakota and currently making an effort to recover from yesterday's drive home that got me to my house at 2AM, so it's off to bed for me. Hope to see you on cmapus next semester.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Apartment Hunting and Finals
If you plan on attending the Timberline campus this fall, I suggest you get your application in NOW. Last August when I moved in, there were 9 rooms that had triples. A few days ago, I was informed that the dorms are already fuller than they were last August. Rather than rushing to fill out a housing application to live in the dorms, I decided on an alternative- getting an apartment in town. Now, most people opt for houses, but I don't particularly want to live with a bunch of guys and finding a couple girls to share a house with is only slightly easier than impossible (For those who are unaware, Leadville is not exactly overflowing with females by any stretch of the imagination). So, I looked on the internet for a few apartments, read some interesting reviews, researched some criteria to consider when looking at an apartment, and then set off today to do some apartment searching.
Being the small town that Leadville is, you can't be too picky if you want to find a place, but you do need to maintain a few standards or you may end up hating where you are living. For some added security, I brought my roommate Erin along with me.
Our apartment search started at what used to be a hospital. I was informed that they had apartments there, but turns out that they were $26,000 condos that were up for sale. This was not quite what I had in mind.
We then moved on to the next apartment complex. Erin and I walked in and requested to look at a one-bedroom apartment. They did not have any one-bedrooms opened, so we were told we could look at a two-bedroom. Much to my surprise, the lady just handed us the keys, told us how to get to the apartment, and sent us on our merry way. So we walked down the building to the apartment, let ourselves, and looked around. The apartment had a wonderfully large storage closet and more than enough kitchen cabinets. However, that did not compensate for the dim bathroom vanity lights, the single light at the end of the hallway, and the kitchen lights that sort of acted like they did not really want to turn on. After making a few notes about the apartment, we returned the keys to the office, and went to the next apartment complex.
The next apartment complex looked rather run-down and when we went to the office we were informed that the owners were not around.
Then we went to Harrison Avenue (the main street in town) and I wrote down several phone numbers of apartments so that I could call to make an appointment to view them sometime. We were only able to see one apartment, which was also a two-bedroom and was in the process of being vacated. While wandering down Harrison, Erin and I meandered into a fudge shop. An older gentleman there informed me that there were not actually apartments above the shop, but proceeded to give us an overview of every apartment complex in town. Based on his explanations, 18 year old females do not want to rent most of the apartments in Leadville. However, there is still hope because there were a few places that he recommended and that he said were rather nice. Hopefully I will be able to make an appointment to view them sometime this week.
Once I got back from my apartment hunting I got my take-home final for Ski Patrol class from Paul and pre-registered for classes. Since I am not living in the dorms, I am not required to have 12 credits. I currently am signed up for 9.5 credits. These include OEC Refresher (Outdoor Emergency Care certification lasts for 3 years, but you have to take a refresher every year to keep it current), Snowmaking lecture (required), Snowmaking lab, Ski Area Risk Management (required), and a 2 credit co-op work experience. Being that this was only pre-registration, I still have all summer to think about whether there are other classes I would like to take, and can then sign up for them in the fall.
In other news, graduation is Saturday, May 2nd. Finals are this coming week. I have 5 finals to do. Ropeways and Ski Patrol are take-home finals. For Public Speaking we have to write a 3-5 page paper about what we thought of the class and then we are taking an open-book final in class. For Food and Beverage, my online class, I have to go into the Learning Assistance center sometime this week and take my final. For my Trail Grooming final, I have to actually show my face in class to take my final. Thursday morning I'll be up bright and early to head back to South Dakota for an undetermined length of time (approximately 30 hours ago I discovered that my summer plans were not going to work as planned, so the last day and a half had been a little exciting, as I fill out job applications for places that request that you apply by March 1st). I have done an amazing job of getting my finals done, which is good for my finals, but not so good for my dorm room considering that I haven't packed up anything yet.
Well, it's back to finals for me now. Goodbye.
Being the small town that Leadville is, you can't be too picky if you want to find a place, but you do need to maintain a few standards or you may end up hating where you are living. For some added security, I brought my roommate Erin along with me.
Our apartment search started at what used to be a hospital. I was informed that they had apartments there, but turns out that they were $26,000 condos that were up for sale. This was not quite what I had in mind.
We then moved on to the next apartment complex. Erin and I walked in and requested to look at a one-bedroom apartment. They did not have any one-bedrooms opened, so we were told we could look at a two-bedroom. Much to my surprise, the lady just handed us the keys, told us how to get to the apartment, and sent us on our merry way. So we walked down the building to the apartment, let ourselves, and looked around. The apartment had a wonderfully large storage closet and more than enough kitchen cabinets. However, that did not compensate for the dim bathroom vanity lights, the single light at the end of the hallway, and the kitchen lights that sort of acted like they did not really want to turn on. After making a few notes about the apartment, we returned the keys to the office, and went to the next apartment complex.
The next apartment complex looked rather run-down and when we went to the office we were informed that the owners were not around.
Then we went to Harrison Avenue (the main street in town) and I wrote down several phone numbers of apartments so that I could call to make an appointment to view them sometime. We were only able to see one apartment, which was also a two-bedroom and was in the process of being vacated. While wandering down Harrison, Erin and I meandered into a fudge shop. An older gentleman there informed me that there were not actually apartments above the shop, but proceeded to give us an overview of every apartment complex in town. Based on his explanations, 18 year old females do not want to rent most of the apartments in Leadville. However, there is still hope because there were a few places that he recommended and that he said were rather nice. Hopefully I will be able to make an appointment to view them sometime this week.
Once I got back from my apartment hunting I got my take-home final for Ski Patrol class from Paul and pre-registered for classes. Since I am not living in the dorms, I am not required to have 12 credits. I currently am signed up for 9.5 credits. These include OEC Refresher (Outdoor Emergency Care certification lasts for 3 years, but you have to take a refresher every year to keep it current), Snowmaking lecture (required), Snowmaking lab, Ski Area Risk Management (required), and a 2 credit co-op work experience. Being that this was only pre-registration, I still have all summer to think about whether there are other classes I would like to take, and can then sign up for them in the fall.
In other news, graduation is Saturday, May 2nd. Finals are this coming week. I have 5 finals to do. Ropeways and Ski Patrol are take-home finals. For Public Speaking we have to write a 3-5 page paper about what we thought of the class and then we are taking an open-book final in class. For Food and Beverage, my online class, I have to go into the Learning Assistance center sometime this week and take my final. For my Trail Grooming final, I have to actually show my face in class to take my final. Thursday morning I'll be up bright and early to head back to South Dakota for an undetermined length of time (approximately 30 hours ago I discovered that my summer plans were not going to work as planned, so the last day and a half had been a little exciting, as I fill out job applications for places that request that you apply by March 1st). I have done an amazing job of getting my finals done, which is good for my finals, but not so good for my dorm room considering that I haven't packed up anything yet.
Well, it's back to finals for me now. Goodbye.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Skiing on the Cheap
As lift ticket prices continue to rise (I've heard that Vail will be over $100 for a 1-day lift ticket during the 09-10 season) more and more people are re-considering if they can afford to ski. The good news is, there are still ways to afford to take your family skiing for the weekend.
Two of the main skiing deals are the Colorado Gems card and store discounts.
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"The Colorado Gems are some of the state's best hidden treasures - 9 resorts off the beaten path, where you'll find shorter lift lines, smaller crowds, down-to-earth prices, and a great family atmosphere. It's where you don't need a homing beacon to keep track of your kids. It's what we in Colorado call quaint. It's what you will call perfect."
These 9 Gem resorts are: Echo Mountain, Eldora, Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, SolVista Basin, Ski Cooper, Monarch Mountain, Powderhorn, and Sunlight.
With a Colorado Gems card, you receive various discounts at these resorts. If you buy the card early enough, I have been told that it is free. However, I was a little behind on things this year, so I had to pay $10, but it was still a good deal.
Discounts include:
A FREE day at A*Basin, Monarch, and SolVista (restrictions apply).
Discounts on lift tickets at all 9 resorts.
Stay and Ski discounts.
I only used my Gems card once this season, but it was worth it. This past Sunday, I took a nice little drive down to Monarch Mountain for closing day and used my free ticket. In the morning I enjoyed a good 6 inches of powder while everyone was still at church. Now, I wouldn't call this powder epic considering that there was crusted-over-spring snow beneath it... but I can't complain too much either considering that I was riding powder on the last day [Yes... I hated powder at the beginning of the season... However, now that I have mastered the art of getting up without completely sinking, I am beginning to find it rather enjoyable]. In the afternoon, the temperature warmed up, and turned the snow into the consistency that one would expect to see on closing day- wet, mushy, slow snow that can cause even the most seasoned skiers and riders to look like a bit of a fool at times.
Around 3pm I decided that it was time to head back to Leadville. On the way back, I made a short detour through Salida to stop at Absolute Bikes to get a free water bottle (When I got my lift ticket that morning, I was given a coupon for a water bottle). Then I continued on to Leadville.
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Grocery stores, gas stations, and ski shops are all good places to look for discounted lift tickets.
King Soopers (also known as City Market) and Safeway offer discounted lift tickets to Copper Mountain, Breckenridge, Keystone, Vail, Beaver Creek, and Arapahoe Basin.
In Summit County, ABC Ski and Sport, Blue Valley Ski Rentals, and Pioneer Sports offer discounted lift tickets. Depending on what store you go to, there are discounts for Copper Mountain, Arapahoe Basin, Ski Cooper, Loveland, Keystone, and Breckenridge.
When you buy 10 gallons of gas at a participating Phillips 66 gas stastion, you recieve a "Buy One, Get One Free" coupon for a lift ticket.
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Buy a season pass now. Steamboat, Copper, and Winter Park ski passes are currently on sale. If you buy by April 19th, $49 down will set you up for a $399 adult season pass with unlimited days to Copper and Winter Park/Mary Jane and 6 days at Steamboat. Passes to individual resorts (Copper only, Winter Park/Mary Jane only) have not yet gone on sale.
Speaking of season passes, your season pass may offer you free or discounted lift tickets at "sister" resorts.
For example, with my season pass (Rocky Mountain Super Pass Plus), I can buy up to 4 half-price lift tickets to Copper per day. I also had 2 free days at Whistler Blackcomb (they also had lodging and air discounts) and 2 days at Taos. Season pass holders also receive rental, ski school, tubing, and food discounts.
While $399 might seem like a lot, if you go during peak season, you only have to go 4 times to pay for the pass.
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Other ideas include:
-Bring a sack lunch with you so that you do not have to buy lunch at the mountain
-Take up snowshoeing or XC skiing
-Ski local
-Look at skiing during the week or in the evenings when lift tickets are often cheaper.
-Look into "Womens Only" nights or Children's programs. I worked at a ski area last winter in South Dakota that had a program called 5th Grade Fridays. Every Friday, 5th graders could get a lift ticket, rental, and group lesson for $5. I have also heard of ski areas where if you buy a lesson package you may be elgible for a discount on a season pass either that year or the next year.
-Look into "free" lodging options such as friends and family that live near ski areas.
You can also try doing an internet search for "Discounted {insert state or ski are} lift tickets"
Two of the main skiing deals are the Colorado Gems card and store discounts.
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"The Colorado Gems are some of the state's best hidden treasures - 9 resorts off the beaten path, where you'll find shorter lift lines, smaller crowds, down-to-earth prices, and a great family atmosphere. It's where you don't need a homing beacon to keep track of your kids. It's what we in Colorado call quaint. It's what you will call perfect."
These 9 Gem resorts are: Echo Mountain, Eldora, Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, SolVista Basin, Ski Cooper, Monarch Mountain, Powderhorn, and Sunlight.
With a Colorado Gems card, you receive various discounts at these resorts. If you buy the card early enough, I have been told that it is free. However, I was a little behind on things this year, so I had to pay $10, but it was still a good deal.
Discounts include:
A FREE day at A*Basin, Monarch, and SolVista (restrictions apply).
Discounts on lift tickets at all 9 resorts.
Stay and Ski discounts.
I only used my Gems card once this season, but it was worth it. This past Sunday, I took a nice little drive down to Monarch Mountain for closing day and used my free ticket. In the morning I enjoyed a good 6 inches of powder while everyone was still at church. Now, I wouldn't call this powder epic considering that there was crusted-over-spring snow beneath it... but I can't complain too much either considering that I was riding powder on the last day [Yes... I hated powder at the beginning of the season... However, now that I have mastered the art of getting up without completely sinking, I am beginning to find it rather enjoyable]. In the afternoon, the temperature warmed up, and turned the snow into the consistency that one would expect to see on closing day- wet, mushy, slow snow that can cause even the most seasoned skiers and riders to look like a bit of a fool at times.
Around 3pm I decided that it was time to head back to Leadville. On the way back, I made a short detour through Salida to stop at Absolute Bikes to get a free water bottle (When I got my lift ticket that morning, I was given a coupon for a water bottle). Then I continued on to Leadville.
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Grocery stores, gas stations, and ski shops are all good places to look for discounted lift tickets.
King Soopers (also known as City Market) and Safeway offer discounted lift tickets to Copper Mountain, Breckenridge, Keystone, Vail, Beaver Creek, and Arapahoe Basin.
In Summit County, ABC Ski and Sport, Blue Valley Ski Rentals, and Pioneer Sports offer discounted lift tickets. Depending on what store you go to, there are discounts for Copper Mountain, Arapahoe Basin, Ski Cooper, Loveland, Keystone, and Breckenridge.
When you buy 10 gallons of gas at a participating Phillips 66 gas stastion, you recieve a "Buy One, Get One Free" coupon for a lift ticket.
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Buy a season pass now. Steamboat, Copper, and Winter Park ski passes are currently on sale. If you buy by April 19th, $49 down will set you up for a $399 adult season pass with unlimited days to Copper and Winter Park/Mary Jane and 6 days at Steamboat. Passes to individual resorts (Copper only, Winter Park/Mary Jane only) have not yet gone on sale.
Speaking of season passes, your season pass may offer you free or discounted lift tickets at "sister" resorts.
For example, with my season pass (Rocky Mountain Super Pass Plus), I can buy up to 4 half-price lift tickets to Copper per day. I also had 2 free days at Whistler Blackcomb (they also had lodging and air discounts) and 2 days at Taos. Season pass holders also receive rental, ski school, tubing, and food discounts.
While $399 might seem like a lot, if you go during peak season, you only have to go 4 times to pay for the pass.
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Other ideas include:
-Bring a sack lunch with you so that you do not have to buy lunch at the mountain
-Take up snowshoeing or XC skiing
-Ski local
-Look at skiing during the week or in the evenings when lift tickets are often cheaper.
-Look into "Womens Only" nights or Children's programs. I worked at a ski area last winter in South Dakota that had a program called 5th Grade Fridays. Every Friday, 5th graders could get a lift ticket, rental, and group lesson for $5. I have also heard of ski areas where if you buy a lesson package you may be elgible for a discount on a season pass either that year or the next year.
-Look into "free" lodging options such as friends and family that live near ski areas.
You can also try doing an internet search for "Discounted {insert state or ski are} lift tickets"
Friday, April 10, 2009
Just Your Ordinary Week In Leadville
My week started off last Saturday morning with a trip to Summit County Medical Center. I had hurt my wrist a week before that and for a couple days it didn't hurt. Then it started to hurt but my brace from last time I broke my wrist was working well enough. However, my wrist eventually decided that it was going to keep hurting more and more no matter how much Advil and Tylenol I took, so Saturday I decided a trip down to Summit County was needed because my wrist hurt an unnecessary amount. The doctor in the Emergency Room there took some X-Rays (their x-ray machine rolls around and comes to the patient's room... I thought it was pretty neat) and said something about a radial-ulna joint injury and widened tendons or ligaments (I don't remember which it was). Then they splinted it, put it in a sling, told me to visit an orthopedic doctor ASAP, and I came back to Leadville.
Sunday was a pretty normal day. Although there was the trip to Subway with the stop at the gas station because Erin did not want a fountain pop from Subway, so we went to the gas station so that she could get a bottle of pop.
Monday I had Ropeways lecture in the morning, ate lunch, and headed back to Summit County to visit an orthopedic wrist doctor who took even more x-rays. He said he wasn't worried about a radial-ulna joint injury and he didn't see anything that was broken, but due to my amount of pain he put me in a cast in case I fractured my scaphoid (apparently scaphoid fractures do not always show up in x-rays right away) or injured my RCL (a ligament that prevents your wrist from bending too far away from your thumb). So now I am in a bright green cast until next Wednesday. I returned right in time to vote on having a hypnotist show next fall (yay for Student Government and the cool programs they put on). Then was Public Speaking where we gave impromptu speeches and were told about next week's Special Occasion speech.
Tuesday I did a bunch of homework that I had sort of been neglecting.
Wednesday we did not have Trail Grooming lecture because our professor was attending a "Snow Making and Trail Maintenance" conference. In the afternoon I went to Ski Patrol lecture. The class lasted long enough for Paul to tell us that a rough draft of our project was due next Wednesday. I then wrote a 583 word speech for graduation (I'm not actually graduating... it was for my "special occasion" speech). I haven't timed my speech yet, but apparently 550-600 words is a 5 minute speech. After dinner, I was playing SIMS on my computer, and Erin decided that she wanted Hot Tamales, so we got in her truck and went to Alco.
Thursday night was definately the excitement of the week. I decided that I was going to sit on my bed, drink a bottle of coke, and eat cheddar chex mix. Unfortunately, my bottle of coke did not agree with this plan, so it exploded all over me, my cast, and my bed. I then had the great pleasure of doing laundry at 9PM because I was not a big fan of sleeping with blankets that had coke on them. Upside of the situation was that at 11PM I had nice warm sheets and blankets to go to sleep in.
Today has not proven to be a particularly exciting day so far. It is a beautiful, sunny day outside, yet Erin is sleeping and I am laying in bed writing my blog.
It is hard to believe that 3 weeks from now, I will no longer be living in this room that I have spent the last 8 months in. That's right- 3 weeks from now I will be back in South Dakota. And 3 weeks after that I will be working as a counselor at Mount Hood Summer Ski Camp in Oregon if everything works out. After 3 months of working there, I'll be home for a couple of weeks (just what I am looking forward to... a couple of weeks at home in the middle of August when it is about 100 degrees during the day and humid) before heading back out to Leadville for my second year here. Which reminds me- I should definately go pre-register like now.
Well, I'm off to pre-register. I'll try to get on later to give you a preview into the classes that are offered next semester.
Sunday was a pretty normal day. Although there was the trip to Subway with the stop at the gas station because Erin did not want a fountain pop from Subway, so we went to the gas station so that she could get a bottle of pop.
Monday I had Ropeways lecture in the morning, ate lunch, and headed back to Summit County to visit an orthopedic wrist doctor who took even more x-rays. He said he wasn't worried about a radial-ulna joint injury and he didn't see anything that was broken, but due to my amount of pain he put me in a cast in case I fractured my scaphoid (apparently scaphoid fractures do not always show up in x-rays right away) or injured my RCL (a ligament that prevents your wrist from bending too far away from your thumb). So now I am in a bright green cast until next Wednesday. I returned right in time to vote on having a hypnotist show next fall (yay for Student Government and the cool programs they put on). Then was Public Speaking where we gave impromptu speeches and were told about next week's Special Occasion speech.
Tuesday I did a bunch of homework that I had sort of been neglecting.
Wednesday we did not have Trail Grooming lecture because our professor was attending a "Snow Making and Trail Maintenance" conference. In the afternoon I went to Ski Patrol lecture. The class lasted long enough for Paul to tell us that a rough draft of our project was due next Wednesday. I then wrote a 583 word speech for graduation (I'm not actually graduating... it was for my "special occasion" speech). I haven't timed my speech yet, but apparently 550-600 words is a 5 minute speech. After dinner, I was playing SIMS on my computer, and Erin decided that she wanted Hot Tamales, so we got in her truck and went to Alco.
Thursday night was definately the excitement of the week. I decided that I was going to sit on my bed, drink a bottle of coke, and eat cheddar chex mix. Unfortunately, my bottle of coke did not agree with this plan, so it exploded all over me, my cast, and my bed. I then had the great pleasure of doing laundry at 9PM because I was not a big fan of sleeping with blankets that had coke on them. Upside of the situation was that at 11PM I had nice warm sheets and blankets to go to sleep in.
Today has not proven to be a particularly exciting day so far. It is a beautiful, sunny day outside, yet Erin is sleeping and I am laying in bed writing my blog.
It is hard to believe that 3 weeks from now, I will no longer be living in this room that I have spent the last 8 months in. That's right- 3 weeks from now I will be back in South Dakota. And 3 weeks after that I will be working as a counselor at Mount Hood Summer Ski Camp in Oregon if everything works out. After 3 months of working there, I'll be home for a couple of weeks (just what I am looking forward to... a couple of weeks at home in the middle of August when it is about 100 degrees during the day and humid) before heading back out to Leadville for my second year here. Which reminds me- I should definately go pre-register like now.
Well, I'm off to pre-register. I'll try to get on later to give you a preview into the classes that are offered next semester.
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