Sara had her midterms today over the last couple of days which is a sign that we are half way through this experiment in relocation. It is hard to believe that so much time has passed. A lot of things seem to have worked themselves out and we had a great week. There was a lot more homework and tests this week and this was a full week of classes. We have discovered that the secret of success is to get up early and do homework in the morning.
Our typical routine involve me waking up about 30 minutes before Sara and checking email and opening her door. About 15 minutes later I turn on the light and start organizing breakfast. She stumbles into the room bleary eyed and we eat breakfast together. We check her schedule and get her stuff all packed and ready to go. She does homework for 30 minutes to an hour and I get my work day started. I driver her down to campus or the competition center and then get back to work. Of late have been running down after she finishes training to pick up her skis and gear. At first I was resistant to this, but of late it seems to be a good thing and gets me out of my isolation and some human contact.
Work has been pretty productive this week. We are closing out another release and a lot of the open issues have been working themselves out and coming to a conclusion. Now that the new year is starting there are a lot more people around and it is much easier to get some of the projects I have been working on to progress.
The only down side to this week has been the absolutely frigid and windy weather that we have been having. The good news is that they have been making snow, the bad part is that it has been hard packed styro-foam like stuff that is pretty hard to hold an edge on. Practice makes perfect, and we are all getting better at handling this stuff. I decided to take off Monday from skiing, that turned into Tuesday as well. I did manage to get out on Wednesday, but I headed west to Jordan, and the wind was howling there. The picture at the top and bottom of this post were taken from atop the observation deck next to Jordan. I nearly got frostbite taking my gloves off long enough to take them. I can tell you there was not a lot of time spent on composition. As for the conditions; thank god for snow making, but we really do need a good helping of mother natures real stuff.
In training they have switched back to Giant Slalom (GS). Sara has been enjoying this somewhat less technical training and has been really getting into the groove with her coaches and teammates. I got a rare glance into their world when I collected her from the dorm after school on Wednesday night. It seemed like a really warm environment with kids studying, tuning skis, knitting (which apparently a number of them do while in class to keep their hands busy) and skate boarding around the basement. I think that she is currently working through to the next phase of her skiing development. If she can drive through this next set of challenges I believe that she will break through to the next level.. Monday is the first GS Qualifier of the season at Saddleback and we are all going over to watch and ski.
Susan and Caroline came up this morning and spent the day skiing while I worked through to lunch and spent a couple of hours with them in the afternoon before returning to my desk to finish up my last bits for the week. It has warmed up quite a bit and the snow was much softer and easier to hold an edge on. We met up with our friend "Coach Megan" who was skiing on 188 Super G skis. It was a fun way to end the week and start the weekend and the second half of the winter term....
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