Andrew and Alex

Skiing is one of my favourite sports. I started skiing in 2005 at North York Ski Centre, Earl Bales Park. Canada is a very good place to ski because it has a very long winter with a lot of snow. I came from Singapore where there is no winter and thereby no snow at all. So you can never ski there.

Skiing is a sport that you wear two skis on your feet and slide down a hill covers with a giant blanket of snow.

In order to secure your feet on the skis, you have to wear ski boots first, so that the boots can be fit into the skis.

You also need poles to ski if you are an expert at skiing. When we first started learning skiing, we started on a small hill with a rope lift. On that hill, we learned how to stop and turn. After that we moved to the big hills. The age for skiing didn’t really matter because even little children about only about 6 years can ski better than me.

When I go skiing, the weather is always very cold. I have to wear a hat, gloves, a coat, and snow pants. Last week, it was so cold that my hands were almost frozen and became so wrinkly when I came back. I really need to buy snow goggles and wear a scarf.

In ski centres, they make fake snow from ice when there is not good enough snow on the hill. In my ski centre, I saw the huge pipe that blows out all the fabricated snow. It looks and feels very much like real snow and just as good enough for skiing. It never get dirty since nobody is walking on it. From a far view, the delightful snow looks like heaven, with angels flying down the hills.

In my skiing class, I have two friends: Sherry and Manuela. Sherry is my mother’s friend daughter and Manuela is from my school class. They are pretty good skiers but they did not make it to Exp 3. This is my class from Exp 2, now I am in Exp 3.

The first time I went to ski at the big hill, my designated teacher was absent so that I had to join another class in which most students already know how to ski down the big hill. At that time, I wasn’t ready to ski down the big hill yet. When I went down the hill, I couldn’t stop and I crashed into the snow pipe while the teacher tried to stop me. I got a big bump on my head and the medical group came and helped me put ice on the bump. It did not hurt but it made me dizzy.

I like skiing because it is really exciting and fun. It is exciting because it is a fast sport. I sometimes even think it’s funny to fall into the snow! Do you know how to get back to the top of the hill after skiing down the hills? There is a chairlift machine at the bottom with people directing it. You need to partner up with someone and go on it. One time, I found nobody to partner up with so I went out by myself. The watcher shouted to me not to come up all by myself. However, once, I saw a boy about six years old going all by himself and the watcher did not say anything!

There was a time when I really hated skiing! One time when we were going to go up on the chairlift, it suddenly stopped! We all thought it would be fixed in 5 minutes but after half an hour, people started walking up the hills! We all decided to walk up so we took off our skis and slowly walked up the humongous hill.

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