Cross Country Skiing

was the adventure I took on today. It really is quite difficult, I was definitely on the ground way more than I was up and going...I mean it was fun and all, once I sort of got the hang of it, but falling four thousand times really started to get frustrating, and painful. But all the more hillarious :] We started out on a hill, which in my opinion is really stupid to put a hill at the beginning of the trail, but oh well. It was frightening, and I have it on tape ;D [www.photobucket.com/josesuomessa] and I almost killed 5 different people. The hills were horrrrrible, more than you know. You have to walk up the hill with your feet almost completely sideways, and its death. Down hill is really frightening, espescially when its big and just gets steeper as you go. On the biggest downhill I made it halfway down and then faceplanted, and then when I got going again I made it all the way to the bottom, but I guess I got too excited and then I front flipped head over heels, thank goodness snow is a soft landing, but even then it was probably the most painful of my falls. I eventually got good enough to work on my form, and the whole time Arvo would just randomly film me trying to attempt some great task, like starting....haha. But hey, it was really fun and we went 2.5 km, maybe a mile or a bit more ? The most hillarious video is the last one, which you have to promise to laugh WITH me and not AT me, because its really funny, but i definitely look stupid...I faceplanted trying to go uphill....:D But yeah, it was really fun, ish. I'll do it again no worries, but maybe not tomorrow. In an hour I get to talk to my loveeeely brother Jordan and then my host brothers come back home from their days activities [alvar went skiing and arttu went to Sanelmas]. I hope you have a lovely saturday <3