29th July 2010
This week has been pretty cool, on Tuesday it was a bad weather day, a storm came in so I didn’t go riding, the visibility was minimal so I took it as an opportunity to get some CV and cover letters done for Canadian and US resorts. I think I applied to about 26, most of the US guys have gotten back to me saying they are fully staffed or that the hiring of international staff has ended.
Unfortunately I think its going to be difficult for me to get work in any of these resorts as I need sponsorship work visa. Most of the mountains only sponsor workers who are return staff who have already worked for their mountain. I am going with the law of averages and hoping someone will see the spark in my CV and cover letter and choose to sponsor me. I would soo love to work back at Red, Banff would be cool too! Matt Arnstein works for Norquay in Canada and has a good time there, he said they sponsor people in their first winter, that would be awesome.
After getting all my applications done i remember going to the gym and then heading out to the lodge for the usual Tuesday staff night.
With the mountain being snowed on the day before Wednesday was a good riding day. We trained with Rob and it was awesome!!! We were riding about 25cm of fresh up top and it was sooo sweet, I was slashing up the powder big time!! Rob said I was looking solid and stable on my board in my new stance and that a lot of lightbulbs had turned on with my riding. Its starting to come together and my riding feels like its getting sooo much better. I have always had faith in my adaptability as a rider and Im stoked with all the training I am receiving I am really taking it on board and putting it into my riding.
I was riding on my DH2 its just arrived and Matts Ride Beta Movement bindings. As his bindings are too big for him I thought I would do him a favour and swap them out. He is pretty stoked and having ridden my new setup on Weds I am pretty happy. There isn’t much else left for me to do now except enjoy the winter.
Toward the end of the riding day on Weds I started to feel like crap...and I have had to take the day off today because I have the flu. I am slowly starting to feel better with the medication I am taking but my throat kills and its such a nice day on the mountain today. So upset I missed out but hopefully Ill be ok to ride tomo though I might take another day off just to make sure I am fit for work on the weekend.
Other little tidbits our internet bill was huge so we have to start limiting the usage in the house, Chris is back from the UK today and brought Hannah with him, definitely nice to have them back for sure! Toby and Ashleigh both decided to abandon us on their days off and have headed back home, all good!
Nothing else really! Hope alls good!
Peace and Love
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