Great Week

We as an AmeriCorps team did a service project last week on Wednesday.  We had to sort through cans and make sure it was sorted correctly.  It was a good service project.  Each month we all do a group service project in the community.  This was mine to coordinate.  I have done some volunteer hours with this organization and it was a good time to get everybody together.

Sunday we had a group called One Step come in for the week.  They are a group of cancer survivors from the Chicago area.  They have either survived their bout with cancer or are still going through treatment.  I was able to teach ski lessons to students throughout the week.  They went skiing for five days.  It was the best week of my teaching out here.  I had Matt for the first 2.5 days of the week.  He is in a mono ski and his goals were to do double blacks.  After I read his goals I almost got sick but we worked on some skills for the first few days and then he went with another instructor who was willing to do some crazy terrain.  I did not feel up to that challenge of skiing and teaching at the same time and still staying alive.

Here is Matt.  Here is my nose after a good face plant while catching an edge on one of our black runs.  I was beyond frustrated in skiing that day but what is skiing without a few marks on your face.

On Tuesday afternoon I was able to switch students and I was able to ski with some beginner students.  Ryan was a never-ever skier and Andrew was here last year.  By the end of the week we were skiing some really good black runs with really good tight controlled turns.  This week was a blast and a great week of teaching and working with students.

Here is one last shot of Jonathan from England, myself, Matt the crazy mono skier and Alma who is another instructor.  It was a week full of good skiing, good laughs and a great time shared by all.