Fluffy White Powder

The ski trip to Uludag a few weeks ago was a blast. I had forgotten how much I love to snowboard. I was actually quite surprised that I was able catch on so quickly after subjecting my board in the retirement home for the past three years. After spending the majority of my snowboarding "career" at Highland Hills taking extra advantage of our friends who worked the lifts and let us board for free, where landscape was crowded with freeways and skyscrapers and the snow was more like chunks of ice, Uludag blew me away. It was breathtaking. I had never experienced gliding through such fluffy white powder while taking in the natural beauty of the snow covered mountains and evergreen trees. It was such a rush. Now I realize what I had been missing all of these years.

It was my first time taking little cable cars up the mountain with our luggage and spending the weekend in a ski village. I loved it! It was so much fun to stay in a hotel with 60 trainees and AIESECers from all over Turkey. I met some great people and reunited with a few others and had a ton of fun. We partied at night and skied during the day. What else could I ask for?

I wish I had taken a picture of the sweltering bruise I noticed on my ass the next day. It was black, blue, and reddish and was the size of my palm. I had no idea where the hell if came from and then racked my brain on the long ass bus trip to work the next morning. Somehow I had forgotten about my most embarrassing move of the weekend. I had a little misunderstanding with the chair lift. I was about to exit when I noticed a few people had fallen ahead of me. As I was trying to dodge them I fell to the side of the lift that swings around to go back down the hill. The lift hit me in the ass, pushed me down, and dragged me under it for a good five feet until I decided to just mush myself as close to the ground as I could and let the chair lift just swing over me. Finally when the lift passed me I looked up to see a group of AIESECers looking at me, absolutely devastated. Smooth move huh?

And I write as if I'm some kind of professional snowboarder. As if!