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Well it’s that time of year again
where i head off to snowy mountains and pretend to work really hard whilst
learning to ski and pushing my liver to its limit.
This year i am in Meribel, in the
middle of the three valleys, running a twenty bed chalet with two others.
Training was in Val D’Isere again
and it was great to meet up with people. Jen, my roomie from last year was
there, Matt from Les Arcs, I travelled on the bus with Jim and Will, and Rick
is my chalet manager again.
As we arrived in the mountains
there was a scary amount of green and rock about, and a serious lack of snow,
even Mont Blanc was bare! It was weird arriving in resort and being able to see
pavements and grass and the roof not being white from snow, but as we were
training it was good as well, instead of spending hours staring out of the
window day dreaming about skiing we were able to concentrate on learning stuff.
After 3 days of sitting about
learning health and safety, food safety, food presentation, customer service
and much more we were beginning to get cabin fever, so the invite to join in
the resort quiz was much welcome. And then it started snowing!!
The quiz was a riot, absolute
chaos but great fun. We were given a Heat magazine to read and study and one
round was purely on that, we were given sheets of tin foil and told to create
something related to skiing and then there was the usual general knowledge
questions.
I created a parapenter complete
with parachute and skiing down a mountain, it was really cool and won, but
unfortunately no one had a camera, so you will just have to take my word for
it! Overall we came 3rd which wasn’t bad considering after the
second round we thought it was over and most of our team disappeared.
Being the lightweight I am, by
about midnight I had had enough to drink and was ready to go home, so got
wrapped up in my coat and gloves and headed out. The world had become a winter
wonderland, everything was covered in snow and it was still falling. The walk
home which should take about 15 minutes actually took 40 because I spent so
long making footprints in fresh snow, writing my name on car windscreens and
throwing snow about from every available flat surface.
This was our last night in Val
D’Isere and it was a good way to finish training, by now everyone was itching
to get to resort and see Meribel for real.
