-Last Saturday-

Hello.

Today, I'm going to write about my first snowboarding.

1 week ago, on Saturday, I had an activity to go to snowboarding and skiing at my English Learning Program, IEP. We went to Falcon Ridge. At the first, we met up at University at 9:00 a.m. and got into the bus to go the place. It took around 2 hours to get to the place, so during I was on the bus, I tried to sleep, because I'm not good at rides and also I was so tired because at the one day before, I went to skating as an IEP activities.

It was my first time to do snowboarding, so I was so exciting about it. Actually, I didn't have snow wear but I went to buy it one day before. After we got ready to snowboarding, my friends and I took lunch, because we wanted to continue snowboarding without break.

Shiho; one of my friend, taught other 2 friends and me, because we are all beginner except Shiho. She taught us how to attach the board and boots, how to stand up and how to go ahead. When we went to near of the hill, I thought that the hill was not high. I even thought that it is really low, but I was wrong. Just to get to the top of the hill, it was really hard. Using the lift was much hard than go up by walking. I couldn't stand to hold the rope, so at the middle of the hill I let go of the rope and I couldn't go to up. I even fell down and my friend; Mei, helped me to stand up. After that I went to the top of the hill by climbing.

When I saw the view from the top, I was so scared by it. I thought I'm going to die, so I was sitting there for a long time. At that time, the stuff of the place came, so I asked her to teach me how to go down the hill. She taught me, but I couldn't follow her. The thing that I learned from her was "Break the snow", but I didn't know what the break’s meaning is...  I even didn't know in Japanese, it was really difficult to understand in English.

I think the time that I was sitting on the top of the hill was much longer than doing snowboarding... :(  Some people taught me how to go down the hill, and repeating many times, finally I became able to go down the hill.

Because I bought ski jacket and my brother will give me a snowboard, I’m almost ready to go to snowboarding after I go back to Japan :) I hope someday I’ll be able to enjoy snowboarding from the bottom of my heart… :D haha