Skitrip Part 1

The Skitrip was really good!
On Monday, I went to school, like every other  day, but in mufti-so with my own cloths- and I only had the first 4 lessons.  Befor the school started, I had to put my luggage in a locked up room in the gymnasium. My luggage was composed by a big bag with my cloths, my backpack and a bag with the sleepingbag in it. So it was kind of a challange to carry everything to school, but that was okay ;)

Then after the fourth lesson, meeting at the gymnasium to put the bags in the car and sort the food we had to bring in a separate container. All in one, there were 3 busses and one car. During the ride, we stopped to buy a few vegetables. Then we had only a few toilet breaks, that's all for a four hour drive.. So it was quite long, and it takes quite some time to come up the mountain with the van.. I must confess I mostly slept during the travel and that was very fine.

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So there are a few people who stayed only for two days and these could not stay in the lodge where the rest of us stayed, but they stayed down  the mountain at a teacher's second house. This was apperently very good too, but they didn't have the possibility to go home whenever they wanted after the skiing and had to come up the mountain everyday, so 40 minuterides.. That's kind of sad and it was also sad that they coulnd't stay with the rest of the group...



It was very strange to see, when we got up the mountain the landscape change and you could see some snow and at the same time green and brown areas!




After a while we arrived at the lodge and everybody was positevely surprised that everything was so cozy and warm. It felt really good and like on the skitrips in Austria or so. It was amazing!
There was a lot of wood a big open kitchen and a big dinningroom, then a big lounge with a chimney, so in the evenings we used to meet all down there and the heat of the chimney could easily get into our rooms, so it was all good warm:) The rooms were for four people and were quite small but cozy, so it was fine. We had to sleep in sleeping bags and with our own pillowcase.

We had  awonderfull dinner when we came and before time to put our luggage in our rooms. There was always a lot of food available and with desert and water to drink. Every night my stomach was doing noises bacause I ate so much..

There was always a party leader, so a responsable for the lodge. The first nights one, was very strikt and she explained quickly the rules. She said we must be at 9:30 in our rooms and the light must be off at 10. So everybody wanted to brush their teeth at 9:30 and then this lady just shut the light off, so that we spead up and then we weren't allowed to go into the bathroom again, so a lot of people had to brush their teeth in the rooms and split the foam threw the window.. That was very discusting! I had to do that too and we all had to go to the toilets, so we all waited until this woman went to bed and then we could finally go.. That wasn't really nice, but the room was very warm and it was the first time in New Zealand that I could sleep without a sweatshirt or something long on but in T-Shirt! That was a kind of strange feeling;p
But all in one we had a very good night!