Day 4 Courmayeur

Another amazing day. Blue skies predominated and the pistes were smooth. Doga, Faris and Elian were carrying injuries so they missed the days skiing and instead frequented a number of mountain cafes. The rest made great progress with their skiing while Omar Captan had a private snowboard lesson. Mr. Miles spent time with Callum’s group of Martina, Sina, Hala, Carina and Susie. They had progressed to some of the steeper red slopes and were developing their parallel turns. Only one member of the group has managed to stay on her feet all day. We will give you a clue. Her name begins with an ‘S’ and ends in ’usie’! Despite crashing, stumbling and falling, the girls have loved every single minute of their adventure today.

Vian, Sara, Fay, Omar Al., Muneeb, Adam, Andy and of course, the youngest member of the group, celebrating her birthday, Mrs Annoni, have made huge progress. Today they were found skiing down the main slopes of the resort, some of them very steep, but with great skill and confidence thanks to the expertise of Jack their instructor.

Iola’s group of Krish, Karishma, Nadine, Federica, Sara Al., Tara and Miss Humza also have made terrific progress. They started the day on the easier blue slopes but ended the day flowing gracefully down the main red slopes. At one point Mr. Miles was filming them when Karishma slipped and fell into Nadine. Mr. Miles was so focussed on filming the incident that he accidentally ran into Krish who ended up on top of his sister! Luckily it was all slow speed falling so no-one was hurt.

Simon ended up having one-to-one tuition all day with Scottish Bill, his instructor. Simon is now skiing with much more confident parallel turns and despite struggling on the steepest back slopes yesterday, is now skiing with much more ability.

Courmayeur is directly across the valley from Mont Blanc. Today a few of us actually heard, then saw, an avalanche on that mountain! The day ended with us visiting a pizza restaurant, about 10 minutes away by coach. The pizza was good but the french fries were outstanding! After a few games involving magic tricks, we headed back to the hotel to relax, playing table tennis, watching football on TV and generally socialising. The last full day of skiing tomorrow followed by the awards evening – we can’t wait.

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