Mooritzzz in Canada: Christmas

Hey folks, how are you doing? I'm fine here in our white envrionment.Yes, you're reading correctly. Finally we have some snow also in the village. It snowed 50 cm in the last couple of days and the weather forecast promises more snow for the next days. Therefore now the season of snowbattles outside and building snowmen started definitely.. :-)
After i had my "shadow day" i could finally start to work last Monday. I had one lession in the afternoon. A private lesson for a father with his son and daugther. It was funny even if the kids were a bit tired after a 5-hour-flight from somewhere in the U.S. The next day i was on "stand-by" which means that you have to show up i the morning to see if there's a lesson for you. Unfortunately there wasn't any. On the 24. they called me off because there is just not enough work around. Normally this period of year is high season and there are so many lessons booked that everybody has to work all day. This year is kind of *****. Not a lot of snow, the world financial crisis and also this accident with the gondola. But what can one do except of keep being an optimist.. :-)
Today i could work again. First i had a lesson like my first one. A father with his two kids from the States. They were pretty good riders so we could actually go up on the mountains and hit some powder. Or at least we tried.. :-) After the lesson which brought me nice tip and a delicous caesar chicken salad i was booked for a beginner lesson. 3 adults and one kid who had never been on a snowboard before. So i started to explain what a snowboard is, where the nose and the tail is and how you attach it on your feet. Really funny.. :-) After 3 hours they were experts in sideslipping and doing pendulum due to me and all seemed very happy.
Tomorrow i'm booked again for some lessons. Let's see how they're going to be..

I hoped you had all nice Christmas. I was not really in a Christmas atmosphere even though we had a real Christmas tree a some chain of lights. On the 24. we went alltogether to the other student house and had a big dinner there. We were aproximately 25 people and everybody brought some food. In the end there was a multicultural dinner with food from Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, USA, Australia and Korea. It was so good that i ate too much and was knocked out for an hour before i could move again and eat the dessert.. :-)
The next day we hunted some powder and sometimes also some rocks and chilled it in the evening. That's how my Christmas looked like. Now i'm enjoying the last days of 2008 and looking forward to the New Year's party! Underneath some pictures from the last days: