more children

So I was on glacier standby this morning when I was rung to say I had a 10:00 private lesson at Ski Dome II (on the glacier). Little did I know (and I found out when I turned up) that my private guests were in fact ESPRIT CHILDREN. Grr. Friday is usually a nice day of adult privates. Not only Esprit children, but one 5 year old and one 10 year old with autism and ADD (literally, not figuratively). They were sweet but a handful. And my lesson after that was 3 cheerful kids who didn't speak a word of English. Or French. Or German. Yeah, we had no Dutch instructors free. So I was in Kinderland looking like an idiot gesturing and trying to get my point across to the kids. (The parents taught me to say 'stop', 'good', and 'follow me'). The cool thing is I realised how much German I've picked up since I kept thinking of what I wanted to say in German, which was useless, but hey. I could totally have managed in Deutsch.

Moving back to the apartment in town tonight so we'll be up late tonight packing. ('Packing': picking all our shit up off the floor, actually doing the dishes...finding stuff...mmm). It'll be nice to be in a better location though.

Had my first night of work in the shop last night. Man. Being paid to work out is pretty cool, but I was so so buggered afterward. Cause of language I can't work at the counter. And I'm watching and learning how to tune skis, set bindings, etc, but can't do them independently yet, so I spent a good 3 hours running up and down stairs with boots and skis and poles. And cause Norbert the shop owner is sexist (Mathias the rental manager hired me, not him), I felt I had to prove that I can do manual labour as well as the rest of them so I did everything running and carrying as much as I could. Was fine at the time but then making it to the shower this morning was another story. At least Tom winges just as much after he works.

I got some really great feedback from my adult beginners of 2 weeks ago. Tom (Kraus, ski school manager) put them up on the wall in our meeting room and people have been congratulating me :) So hopefully I will be given adults more often now that I've proven I can do it well. (Lots of nice things under 'What seemed perfect to you?' and under 'What are your wishes?' (a bad translation of what could we improve) there was 'Shame you can't control the weather' and 'Liverpool FC to win the championship') Woohoo.

Off to buy some Red Bull to assist with the pack-a-thon tonight.
Xox.