1st_Time_Skiing

1st Time Skiing “Slow down, Emily, slow down!” was all I could hear as I was accelerating down the last twenty feet of a never-ending hill that had abused my body for the last forty-five minutes. I could see the people in front of me and the only way for me to stop, or even slow down, would be to collapse onto the blanket of snow that lay beneath my unstable skis. So, with no other escape, I fell. That would make it seventeen times that I fell down that ferocious bunny hill. But now that I had made it down the hill, I was no longer intimidated by this piece of land that had been so unmerciful to me for such a drawn out period of time. I felt much more relaxed than I had about an hour earlier. The ride to Chestnut Mountain was very nerve racking. I was very anxious and uneasy about the whole situation. That morning all fourteen of us packed ourselves like sardines into two vehicles. My friends found it amusing to harass me by telling me horror stories. They were all pros compared to me, but I guessed skiing, hill, time, very, snow, friends, tried, skis, one, first, feet, about, thought, once, just, go, friend, even, whole, water, two, through, slow, scenery, river, off, made, little, head, ground, bunny, body, beautiful, actually, worse