Well spring is arriving here in Alberta. Just last night I went for my first Mountain Bike ride of the year with Stu and John. It was still a little snowy and muddy, but we had a good time…. How can you complain when you are biking in double digit weather in March. At any rate I am really looking forward to the upcoming season, should be good times, Moab is only 4 1/2 months away… Plus now that Keith is getting into climbing, it should mean more climbing trips to the mountains, woo hoo.
Oh also I started my motorcycle yesterday as well… summer can’t come soon enough.
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Just the other day we were sharing stories about ridiculous things that have happened while teaching skiing. The most amusing was a particular individual who rented ski boots, but failed to mention to the rental place that he couldn’t get them closed because his legs were to big. By some miracle he made it down the hill for the “ski off” where based on your skills you are assigned to ski instructors. A few minutes later he is off following his ski instructor. While doing one of the exercises he fell and lost his poles his skis and yup his boots. He did this not once, not twice, but three times he had a complete yard sale. Ahhhh… funny stuff.
Be sure to check out Get Fuzzy (March 30) today. Some good quality grade 8 humour.
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Well it’s that time again. Another email from Kim’s brother Steve:
… Why is it you always start off your e-mails by asking if there’s any girls I should know about? Don’t you know me? c’mon. Besides i’m counting on you to bring me home my British girl for my birthday. Or you can send her in the mail, i don’t care. Anywho, nothing is going on and I almost got up to talk to you this week, but I was kind of sick and you couldn’t really talk anyways. But don’t worry, I’ll make sure I get up this week. I’m looking forward to summer, though, I might just end up working for Seed Centre, as one of the drivers. It should be a good job for the summer because I like to drive and listen to music, it will be relatively mindless, and I should have a lot of time to go out to the lake too. We have a lot of plans for the lake this year. There is an 85 GMC Sierra classic SUV that we found by Steve’s place that looks like Colin’s old Bronco, but the top comes off, and we were thinking that if we can get it for cheap, we might fix it up and use it as a boat truck. It would be cool. Plus, burger bar girl is now officially old enough to mack on (i know that sounds wrong, but this is me). Know what else? Physics girl has a boyfriend I found out, so that makes me feel a little better about being shut down. Also, I was watching Warren Miller’s Extreme world yesterday, and that place you skiied that took like 2 hours to go down was on the show. So now i’ve been there too (in spirit) I’m sort of jealous right now if your skiing because I havn’t gone in a while, even though you’re probably getting a little sick of it.
I’ll talk to you next Sunday.
Steve love’s his big sister
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It doesn’t get any better then that.
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Well the sun is out and we are rounding into the end of the ski season. Only a couple of weeks left.
My email is up and running again although there is still an issue and I don’t know for how long it will be working. Hopefully everything will be sorted out soon.
Otherwise… summer is on the way!!!
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Well as some of you know I can be a bit competitive at times. Lately it has been with snowboarding. I usually get a chance to go once every week or two and everytime I am out I am always telling Vic that we need to work on our 360s. Well I can do a few small grabs and 180s are pretty easy so I figured I was ready for the big time. Vic goes first. Basically lands his 360 giving me even more confidence in my meager abilities. Needless to say I get some speed launch of the jump and start to spin … in both directions. To the side and into a back flip. My 360 attempt has turned into a Rodeo attempt. Not a good idea and as it turns out my helmet works good and my body is much more flexible then I thought. In other words a head plant followed by folding in half over top of my head. Blah…. Thankfully I wasn’t hurt all that seriously and managed to slithered my way down the hill and into a nice hot shower to deal with my back pain.
As a side note I seem to be having some trouble with the website and my teeuwsen.com email. I am talking with the hosting company, but haven’t heard back yet. Please send emails to my hotmail account. If you don’t know it let me know and I will send you a quick email.
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Hello to all out there. Something interesting for you all to check it out. This was shown to me by Craig, who was shown it from Chris. At any rate it is the latest rage that is taking the world by storm, and all I can say is wow… these guys are sick! After doing a google search about it there is a number of websites, pointing to groups all over the world doing this. Just google Le Parkour. Crazy I tell you, ok enough so here it is, check this vid out.
Well that is about all for now… stay tunned, coming in the next week.. Ski Clips from Canada. Oh, and hopefully I can post some more pictures soon.
Plus, The Weakerthans this weeked, I am so excited….
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I was thinking about Steve (Kim’s Brother) this week. Seeing as it is international week we have all kinds of British Girls (maybe 10 or so) and they came with one American guy who has been volunteering at their church. It would be a dream come true for Steve to be that American. 🙂 I guess in life you make choices. Steve could be skiing with British Girls in the Alps or … well … getting his doctorate in Chemistry.
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Well it has been a couple of Days. We have been getting rain at the school and snow at the top. Lots of snow. It just keeps falling. I am a little worried that we might have a wet summer. We will see.
This week we have an international weeks so everything is English. Kind of a nice change, but at the same time I really need to work on my German. The title for this week is Israel week. The main speakers run a missions focused hostel in Israel and have some pretty interesting stories especially when you read about all the chaos in the news. It always brings a different perspective when you are talking to people that are experiencing it first hand.
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Well A BIG congratulations goes out to Ryan Campbell who is getting married this summer. I just received the email and I quote, “So… I will be getting married … July 24th…”. Well we are super excited for you both and wish you nothing but the best!
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Ahhhh, the long weekend. There is nothing quite like it. Even though we had to work straight through last weekend. I was going to write you a little long weekend poem, but all I could come up with is….
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Sugar is Sweet
But the long weekend you can’t beat.
hmmm….. well actually pretty good if I don’t say so myself.
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