1/4th of a year » snowboarding http://oneyear.ch fish'n'chips and cornish pasty Wed, 16 May 2012 15:13:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Snowboarding: ALL WINTER LONG! http://oneyear.ch/snowboarding-all-winter-long/ http://oneyear.ch/snowboarding-all-winter-long/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:25:55 +0000 raphy http://oneyear.ch/?p=774 I am back! Yeah I was snowboarding again. This time two weeks with a part of my family. We were at our apartment in the Swiss Alp. When you are interested, it is in South Switzerland in the Kanton Wallis. My brother and I got two weeks off for winter break!
My daily schedule is easily told: morning snowboarding, then having lunch at an "alp restaurant", going back on the slopes till 5.00 PM, going home for dinner, and then watching the olympic games in Vancouver all night long!
That's really almost all I did the past two weeks. It was a relaxing and also fun! Only the book presentation I had to prepare was a little bit a pain in the a**. I could choose when I wanted to do my presentation. The ones who were going to do it first will get some extra credit. So, I picked the first date to do it, which was the first day after the break. How stupid I was. But now I am glad I've already done it and I am happy for the extra credit since my teacher didn't like my presentation (he really doesn't like my american style of presentation).
Anyway, the olympic games where fun. Switzerland got 6 gold medals which is quiet a lot for a little country like us. I hope you all know the guy Simon Ammann! He is the one who won two of them in ski jumping! I am not related to him tho...
Alright, the rest of the post I let my pictures speak!
]]> http://oneyear.ch/snowboarding-all-winter-long/feed/ 4 Study or Fail! http://oneyear.ch/study-or-fail/ http://oneyear.ch/study-or-fail/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:23:38 +0000 raphy http://oneyear.ch/?p=760 Yes, I am still alive and I haven't given up my blog. The last 4 weeks were just really busy for me. So busy that I couldn't even update my blog. So, you are probably asking yourself what did Raphy do in January? Well second of week of Januray I went to a snowboard camp! I got suspended from school for a week, which was really awesome! In that camp I got trained to a snowboard instructor. We stayed in a really nice hotel! Twin rooms with televisions, bath and shower included! I expected some military barracks with really uncomfortable beds. The whole week the sun shone, the snow was perfect and I just had a blast in that snowboard trainee camp. Third week back in school! I had to catch up with all the materials I missed. Or better I should have. Still I had to study for some exams and write two essays: one about the city "Basel" and second a portrait of a teacher. The teacher one was actually fun to write. Week four of January I got the chance to show off all my new learned skills in snowboarding. I went to another snowboard camp, this time not as participant but as a leader. My brother came along as a participant. Sadly he does skiing and not snowboarding. (snowboarding is way better...) Otherwise I probably would have been his instructor. The camp was a snow sport camp of my school. Every grade until the 12th grade has such a camp once a year. READ MORE!]]> http://oneyear.ch/study-or-fail/feed/ 2 Surprisingly Snow http://oneyear.ch/surprisingly-snow/ http://oneyear.ch/surprisingly-snow/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:27:25 +0000 raphy http://oneyear.ch/?p=738 Some times events come up really surprisingly. I already got used of the fact that my comeback in snowboarding will be somewhere in February, 2010. But then it came all differently. As some of you may know in Switzerland it is a tradition that every year the school organizes a ski camp for almost each grade. Well, my grade of course.... READ MORE]]> http://oneyear.ch/surprisingly-snow/feed/ 0