Check out this - Mt Hotham predicting snow!
Just thought all my Northern Hemisphere Friends (and some Australian ones) would like to know that it is snowing here!!
I'm getting excited and trying to sleep lots now and get my body right.
33 days until our Queen's Birthday opening of the season!
Sending anticipatory smiles!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Hitting the Wall
On March 14th I hopped off the plane at Tullamarine to be picked up by a smiling mother. She always seems to be rather relieved every time all of her children and safely back inside Australian borders. I promptly jumped full throttle into life as a full time student.
To be totally honest, life as a full time student kind of blows in comparison to the life I led this summer as an athlete. Sitting at a desk really doesn't compare to flying down the slopes and squeezing in a work out is just so much more difficult. Though, getting back into the social scene in Melbourne is always a treat. This year I was lucky enough to have a gorgeous birthday dinner shortly after my return, the perfect chance to sit down and actually talk to long lost friends. In addition to all this I had started work at a pub around the corner, The Cricket Club, which was the perfect job - not too stressful and great hours. I am organising the snowboard portion of racers for Melbourne University and was also helping coach the St. Hilda's College 1st rowing crew!
Perhaps a little too much and as Good Friday rolled around I came down with what seemed, at the time, like bad tonsillitis, but a week and a blood test later turned out to be Glandular Fever. Thus the past week has been all about lying on the couch and afternoon naps; study and exercise have ground to a halt. Chocolate was not a great feature of Easter as nothing seemed to taste at all like it should, much to Mum's chagrin I was constantly saying, 'this taste's like vomit' - it was not her exceptional cooking just my silly taste-buds! My body seems to be losing any muscle mass it ever had. I'm not looking forward to feeling well enough to start working back on my body condition - it's going to hurt!
I guess this is a kind of karma for taking perhaps a little too much on. Hopefully after a few weeks off work and the gym I can keep up with my study and get a whole lot better. Fingers crossed because the Queen's Birthday Weekend, the opening of the ski season, is only six weeks away!
In other news I was very humbled to receive a Friends of the Sports Association Scholarship from the University - this is going to be significant assistance for the Australian winter coming up. Also, I am beginning the search for sponsors in the hope that next Norther-winter I can be a little less reliant on Mum and Dad.
Don't share water bottles with anyone!
To be totally honest, life as a full time student kind of blows in comparison to the life I led this summer as an athlete. Sitting at a desk really doesn't compare to flying down the slopes and squeezing in a work out is just so much more difficult. Though, getting back into the social scene in Melbourne is always a treat. This year I was lucky enough to have a gorgeous birthday dinner shortly after my return, the perfect chance to sit down and actually talk to long lost friends. In addition to all this I had started work at a pub around the corner, The Cricket Club, which was the perfect job - not too stressful and great hours. I am organising the snowboard portion of racers for Melbourne University and was also helping coach the St. Hilda's College 1st rowing crew!
Perhaps a little too much and as Good Friday rolled around I came down with what seemed, at the time, like bad tonsillitis, but a week and a blood test later turned out to be Glandular Fever. Thus the past week has been all about lying on the couch and afternoon naps; study and exercise have ground to a halt. Chocolate was not a great feature of Easter as nothing seemed to taste at all like it should, much to Mum's chagrin I was constantly saying, 'this taste's like vomit' - it was not her exceptional cooking just my silly taste-buds! My body seems to be losing any muscle mass it ever had. I'm not looking forward to feeling well enough to start working back on my body condition - it's going to hurt!
I guess this is a kind of karma for taking perhaps a little too much on. Hopefully after a few weeks off work and the gym I can keep up with my study and get a whole lot better. Fingers crossed because the Queen's Birthday Weekend, the opening of the ski season, is only six weeks away!
In other news I was very humbled to receive a Friends of the Sports Association Scholarship from the University - this is going to be significant assistance for the Australian winter coming up. Also, I am beginning the search for sponsors in the hope that next Norther-winter I can be a little less reliant on Mum and Dad.
Don't share water bottles with anyone!
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