24.1.12- Tonight was rather brilliant! After a spontaneous run at 9:30 last night
around the lake a few times my legs were a little sore already, but now
I really feel the reward! 40 of us GTL studients made our way over to
the ice rink coordinated by our BDE equivalent to student government,
led by Ryan Lewis as President, and our Vice President; Kevin (the
person who lead the Luxembourg group around).
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| Brian |
I haven't skated in a year and a half or so, and had no idea how it was
going to go- especially as my blades were very dull. (next event I'm
going to I'm going to look up French vocabulary to suffice for that
event) Started out splitting a nice warm frozen-->microwave-->oven
cheese pizza with Brian, (your welcome Siyi).
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| There was kereoke going on, so we also got to hear all the wonderful singers in our group as we skated on ice! ; ) |
When the rest of the group arrived I got in line and asked for size 38
for skates in french :) (My feet grew horrendously since my time in
America... I used to be a 7!) I progressively got more comfortable on
the ice, but there was a small group of guys doing tricks in the middle,
so I guess the competitive side of me took over/the desire to learn to
do something new!
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| Jamie, Joseph, The Man |
It was cold pretty cold until you got moving around more, but I think we all had a really fun time!
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| Even when we were on the ground! |
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Well, most of us!
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I eventually made it up to doing a 360 jump a few times, tuck jump 1/2,
took a knee-turned- got up-jumped 1/2, that was a really fun one. Many
of these instances were accompanied by a series of uncontrolled turns
until I ran out of momentum. These guys did free style so they were more
into dance on the skates than actual figure skating moves like scales,
of which apparently they called a "swan dive?" I'm not sure, they only
spoke French, Fabien and Kevin helped me at times to communicate to
them. -Thank you. Jamie and Joseph courageously joined as well :)
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| Disclaimer: Brian is not flipping me off, he has a peace sign up , it's just hard to see his pointer finger. |
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| But it is a smiley face!! |
I can't wait to go again sometime soon I hope! Though not too soon because my legs are currently raw. Thicker socks next time. : p
It was cold pretty cold until you got moving around more, but I think we all had a really fun time!
I eventually made it up to doing a 360 jump a few times, tuck jump 1/2,
took a knee-turned- got up-jumped 1/2, that was a really fun one. Many
of these instances were accompanied by a series of uncontrolled turns
until I ran out of momentum. These guys did free style so they were more
into dance on the skates than actual figure skating moves like scales,
of which apparently they called a "swan dive?" I'm not sure, they only
spoke French, Fabien and Kevin helped me at times to communicate to
them. -Thank you. Jamie and Joseph courageously joined as well :)
I can't wait to go again sometime soon I hope! Though not too soon because my legs are currently raw. Thicker socks next time. : p 
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