[amazing trip]
despite the many possibilities/chances of a sucky ski trip, i had an amazing time. usually, i sit around and bum around on ski trips- stayin in the hotel a lot, watching a lot of tv, and doin a whole lot of nothing. but this year, i can say that i was barely in my room, hardly watched any tv, and took advantage of all the things that were offered to me. i got to hang out with church ppl: eric, virginia, eileen, phil (and his UMICH friend paul),frances, grace,.john, will, serena, stef, dave, michelle, derek, paige as well as spend time with matt, jordo, phil, anil, and T. ahh, it was A LOT of fun. definately lived up to my expectations.

[swimming]
franny, virginia and i went swimming the first nite. despite my several attempts to do a flip-kick and the butterfly (taught by franny herself), i failed miserably. i think i just have to face the fact that i will never be able to do the butterfly or SAFELY complete the flip-kick. after that kick-in-the-face, frances, virginia, and i rewarded ourselves by goin to the jacuzzi and soakin the jetstreams =P (or as we'd liek to call it, "boiling ourselves to death").

[dancing]
virginia, paige, eric, stef, franny, and i went dancing. it was awesome. it was the lamest thing alive and the music was horrid, but we brought the fun to the dance.honestly, i thinkthat if we weren'tthere, the dance wouldn't've been half as fun as when we went. danced to the cha-cha songs and w.my dad to the jitterbug... and amidst all the chinese singing and slutty chinese gurls performing dances, they had a few weird trance songs in tehre. eric and i rule and won ourselves a stuffed animal and a jar, cuz we're just that awesome =P

[mission: completed]
this has to be the highlight of the ski trip.. or my life =P either one. i'm not gonna go in depth cuz i'd like to keep it private, but i'll let out the kewl/non-revealing parts. so on saturday, i was gonna surprise matt with a "plan" at his condo and i had this planned for about 3 weeks. so saturday came and everythign went wrong before it happened and so many times, i was ready to give up: he wasn't goin out to eat, i forgot matches (to burn down the condo=P), i needed keys to his condo, we couldn't find his condo (oh, btw, eileen helped me w/all this), i wasn't sure when he was goin to be back from gettin groceries/movie (thanks to anil/phil/t/jordo for stalling).... but in the end, we finally found the condo after goin down the scariest road i've ever been on, we got a liter from the nextdoor neighbors, jordo gave me keys, and although they came back to the condo when eileen and i were still setting up, phil and anil safely got us out of the condo and onto the road back to our hotel without matt knowing. muahaha =) i'm quite proud of myself... =P

[snowboarding]
had a really good time snowboard, but it was sooo exhausting. took allthe energy out of me.. energy to talk, move, listen, ... blah! i'm all jelly. but yeah, phil kinda taught me how to carve a lil bit today, and it was a pretty good technique. if it wasn't for this one bad fall i had, i think i would've learned how to carve pretty well. matt, jordan, anil, and t snowboarded REALLY REALLY well for their first time. freakin, matt knew how to carve right from his first day. not fair. jordan goes super fast (which is kewl cuz i go super slow.. they say it's cuz i weigh so much). eric and i didn't get much snowboarding/ski-blading done together which is a first, but i guess our first few runs on saturday morning can count as it. body hurts so much right now, and i realyl can't move.. need bed. ahh, the joys and pains of snowboarding. =P