since last time...
i flew into LA on sun 11th...9hours earlier than i left ackld....( and with only 23kg of luggage to my name!)
spent the night in LA with a huge contingent of aussies, kiwis and a few argintinians....it was complete chaos!!
a group of us made it out to Manhattan beach for the xmas fireworks...americans like to do things BIG!...(that goes for pretty much everything!) we then had an all american pizza, beer and football...the slices are HUGE...2 slices and i was stuffed, i felt like id eated half a pizza, which i kinda had:)...
we were then picked up to come up to mammoth...2 bus loads....just a few of us....
i got up to mammoth on monday ..it is about 7000ft abouve sea level and the mountain in heaps more....so the altitude makes me feel like i have a vice on my temples the whole time and i cant walk to fast up stairs or i get puffed...its crazyness...its meant to gp away soon...opn the upside it takes less to get drunk:) the whole town is in a permanent state of full party people get trashed every nite...I moved in to a REALLY nice flat in the middle(ish) of town...all my roommates (5) are american girls and are soo nice...we are in a complex with 13 other apartments mostly americans but there are 2 whole flats of aussie boys and some kiwis are sprinkled around...girls are a rare comodity here..i have heard figures as high as 1:7 outnumbered!!..which doesnt seem unlikely...
Houses are CENTRALLY HEATED.....FUCK YEAH...you can not fully appreciate the importance!....it is 0degrees outside on a good day and we had over 2 feet of snow last night/day.....making it to work that morning was fucking surreal...walking through a full on snow storm....i pretty much was wearing every pair of thermals i own as well as down jacket and snow pants etc.....but i think im getting a bit more used to it..especially now that i am no longer soo sick....
oh yeah pretty much the whole resort staff is sick with flu or bronchitis or something so it was impossible to avoid it...
because it is christmas holiday week the resort is packed out...sooo many spanish people!......so i only managed to get out riding twice, ohh i mean snowboarding...the first time was good..i didnt fall over once...miracle i know...but i was on a practically flat surface so i was proud but its not really an achievement...the second day i got a bit keen a took the chair up one of the "easy" slopes....turns out its not easy for me so pretty much fall on my arse or skidded/head over heals/slide spectacularly the whole way down and took about 45mins to get down the run when people who arent cabbage take about 5mins....but i didnt take my board off like others did so i though i was doing alright....and i managed to work out how to toe stop so im getting betterish..
however after this ordeal i hear many horror stories about busted knees and broken wrists...which i didnt have guards for...so i am now way too paranoid to go aout again till i get guards, that and the slopes are crazy busy...
but heres hoping that in 4mths ill be much better:)
i work in the rental store which is pretty fun..our supervisors are always feeding us (the wife bakes, mmmm) and dont really care what we do as long as the guests are churning through.... i work 8-5...5.15....5.30...fucken guest go the fuck home!...i gotta get up at 6.30 to make it up the mountain in time....so yeah those late nights socializing are painful....
im finally getting some days off this week...so i can sort my shit out to get a phone and go to the supermarket etc...it is only 2blocks away but when there is shitloads of snow out thats is a fucking infinite distance...especially because it is well dark by the time i get home.......i only managed the minimum basics at the supermarket last time...EVERYTHING is processed! it took me a good 5 mins to find oats in the cereal aisle they were so swamped by sugary frosties and the like....so im gonna need like 1/2 a day to get round properly!...all the packaging looks straight outta the 80's and it is all 3 times the size of stuff at home...it is trippy...that and they sell anything and everything you could ever want almost...so its good fun....
spent the night in LA with a huge contingent of aussies, kiwis and a few argintinians....it was complete chaos!!
a group of us made it out to Manhattan beach for the xmas fireworks...americans like to do things BIG!...(that goes for pretty much everything!) we then had an all american pizza, beer and football...the slices are HUGE...2 slices and i was stuffed, i felt like id eated half a pizza, which i kinda had:)...
we were then picked up to come up to mammoth...2 bus loads....just a few of us....
i got up to mammoth on monday ..it is about 7000ft abouve sea level and the mountain in heaps more....so the altitude makes me feel like i have a vice on my temples the whole time and i cant walk to fast up stairs or i get puffed...its crazyness...its meant to gp away soon...opn the upside it takes less to get drunk:) the whole town is in a permanent state of full party people get trashed every nite...I moved in to a REALLY nice flat in the middle(ish) of town...all my roommates (5) are american girls and are soo nice...we are in a complex with 13 other apartments mostly americans but there are 2 whole flats of aussie boys and some kiwis are sprinkled around...girls are a rare comodity here..i have heard figures as high as 1:7 outnumbered!!..which doesnt seem unlikely...
Houses are CENTRALLY HEATED.....FUCK YEAH...you can not fully appreciate the importance!....it is 0degrees outside on a good day and we had over 2 feet of snow last night/day.....making it to work that morning was fucking surreal...walking through a full on snow storm....i pretty much was wearing every pair of thermals i own as well as down jacket and snow pants etc.....but i think im getting a bit more used to it..especially now that i am no longer soo sick....
oh yeah pretty much the whole resort staff is sick with flu or bronchitis or something so it was impossible to avoid it...
because it is christmas holiday week the resort is packed out...sooo many spanish people!......so i only managed to get out riding twice, ohh i mean snowboarding...the first time was good..i didnt fall over once...miracle i know...but i was on a practically flat surface so i was proud but its not really an achievement...the second day i got a bit keen a took the chair up one of the "easy" slopes....turns out its not easy for me so pretty much fall on my arse or skidded/head over heals/slide spectacularly the whole way down and took about 45mins to get down the run when people who arent cabbage take about 5mins....but i didnt take my board off like others did so i though i was doing alright....and i managed to work out how to toe stop so im getting betterish..
however after this ordeal i hear many horror stories about busted knees and broken wrists...which i didnt have guards for...so i am now way too paranoid to go aout again till i get guards, that and the slopes are crazy busy...
but heres hoping that in 4mths ill be much better:)
i work in the rental store which is pretty fun..our supervisors are always feeding us (the wife bakes, mmmm) and dont really care what we do as long as the guests are churning through.... i work 8-5...5.15....5.30...fucken guest go the fuck home!...i gotta get up at 6.30 to make it up the mountain in time....so yeah those late nights socializing are painful....
im finally getting some days off this week...so i can sort my shit out to get a phone and go to the supermarket etc...it is only 2blocks away but when there is shitloads of snow out thats is a fucking infinite distance...especially because it is well dark by the time i get home.......i only managed the minimum basics at the supermarket last time...EVERYTHING is processed! it took me a good 5 mins to find oats in the cereal aisle they were so swamped by sugary frosties and the like....so im gonna need like 1/2 a day to get round properly!...all the packaging looks straight outta the 80's and it is all 3 times the size of stuff at home...it is trippy...that and they sell anything and everything you could ever want almost...so its good fun....
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