Snowboarding!

ok soooo today i went to a nearby village to ski, and it was super busy because of the christmas holidays, lots of people.(20 mins 1 line for ski lift) Jeff snowboards and i have always skied right? ...well today i rented a snowboard ((it was just jeff and i today to ski) i borrowed skis from my host nephew) and learned how to snowboard... what can i say IT WAS SO FUN! haha but seriously im not gonna lie.. im not goign to go back to skiing much now. ps. i need to buy gloves, and snowpants. So jeff was really surprised at how fast i picked up snowboarding because he said that after 5 runs, which was all i boarded today.. that he was really impressed i picked it up so fast. im guessing that after skateboarding for so long, and skiing for a while it would come naturally but geez on my last run down the moantain..if you can call it that (nothing compared to colorado) i only fell 4 times! do you understand what that means? can you comprehend this monstrosity? i think im in love! haha but seriously like i hit 2 jumps today, and did a really crappy 180 also. on both jumps i landed it ok enough and then i fell over a little bit after out of surprise that i landed it...now of course i got like 2 feet of air? maybe 1? but still i was so surprised and its so much fun! jeff and i are goign to get season tickets somewhere but we dont know where yet...and im really excited for ski week because jeff and i are going to pwn! (see WoW for the def. of pwn) : ) oh but on my third run down oh man...i might have run into 2 people..within 2 minutes. now the first time was not entirely my fault i was going kinda fast but a skier came by right out of nowhere and i ran into her..jeff was watching and he said she skied away on one ski for a second and then fell over..i felt bad taht time but it gets worse! :( haha but she was fine she got up and skied away (and i said sorry in czech of course) now the second time it happened which was right after this almost i was heading towards this old couple just chilling right next to some mogles right?? and i hit one behind them and of course jeff saw this also he quote said "harry you helicopter chopped that grandma in the boob and made her fall over" end quote..haha my board was above my head and i totally bailed hard that time but after saying sorry again in czech and her husband just amazed at what he had witnessed she got up and was fine..luckily! i know i know...i need to be careful more next time and i will. lesson learned.. dont go snowboarding when its so busy..so i think were going back thursday? or whenever rotary pays us next which is soon. :) and thats my story of snowboarding.

Christmas Holidays!

Christmas here is much better than i could have expected! :) On the 23 my host parents family started showing up, and there are 5 extra people here right now. Later tonight there will be another 4 here, and with so many people its hard not to just enjoy a Czech Christmas and not be as homesick as i expected.

I went to a rock concert/show on the 23rd it was a Slovak band named Horkže Slyže haha try to pronounce that! :) The next morning was all about some sweet bread and not eating much so that if you save your appetite for the night supper you get to see the Golden Pig (zlaty prase). Basically you eat soup for lunch, bread for breakfast and if you are good and don't cheat by eating to much food you see the Golden Pig which is part of tradition...don't ask how it started i have no idea. :)

Also those of you that know me wouldn't think me to be much of a sports person, or at least i don't consider myself to be much of one, but since being here i have played tennis which is a lot of fun. Yesterday though i played hockey and oh man, that sport is fun if its for fun..haha it was 2v3 and of course the 2 people one, my host dad and his son versus me and his 2 grandsons..i mean it was like this
15yr + 18yr +20yr vs. 37yr + 67yr (last 2 ages are guesses) and they won! haha :)
Yes hockey is a lot of fun, oh and i chopped firewood with Martin for the Xmas fire, that's always fun who doesn't like to handle and axe.
We had carp and potato salad for our Xmas dinner. Czechs always eat these 2 food it is very traditional, yes no turkey, but this stuff was still really good :) Also they open presents on Christmas Eve, I'm not use to that but i didn't mind, haha why would i?

I hope everyone else is having a great Christmas as well, and that you also have a great new year!

In half an hour I'm going to be playing hockey again, and then i will skype with mom and dad, what could be better? Nothing, i am 100% enjoying this experience and it is so worth it.

love you all
Harry