Perspective: Snowboarding

Yesterday me and all the ceramics dept went for our annual winter MT (Membership training)2008. This winter we went to Muju Resort for ski and snow boarding. The night before we went there, I was actually feeling unwell. I think it was because of the Road-rally last Sunday. Anyway I thought that I won't miss this change.
We gathered in campus at 5am in the morning. It took about 2.5 hours from our campus to Muju resort by bus. We arrived there around 830am, and it was so exciting to see the town full of snow. When we arrived there, first we went to the rental to rent our ski and snowboard equipment. All of the student take snowboard, I was actually want to choose ski because I played ski before, however since all student choose snowboard, I have no choice but to choose snowboard even though I have no confidence with snowboard.

Little town full of snow in Muju-resort

After we rent of the equipment, we directly went to the course. Since this is the first time for me to play snowboard, I have to learn everything even how to use all the gear. I was wondering why do we need to use protection in our buttocks but not on my elbow, but I just use it for the sake of protection. The first thing that we need to learn is how to balance ourself on the board, and after that we need to learn how to stop the board from sliding by using our feet to tilt the board. It takes me quite sometimes to learn these 2, and when you fall, your buttocks hit first that's why we have to use protection there. Once I master this, it was quite fast for me to learn the next lesson, the sliding, toe slide, back slide, and turning. However I have to fell down so many times until I really enjoy snowboarding.I found out that it was easier for me to play snowboard than ski and I think snowboard is more fun.

I felt really tired after 8 hours of snowboarding. We end our session at around 5pm and we went to the resort to rest and have our dinner. We had samgyopsal for dinner and as usual the dinner was full of "soju" and "mekju". Because I was too tired I went to bed early and since the next day we still have hiking.
Today we went for hiking at Deogyu mountain-딕규산. The mountain was full with snow, and it was extremely cold on top. However it was a very beautiful scenery. I was actually about not to join them hiking because I was too tired, but I can't resist when I first saw the scenery. It took us about an hour to reach the top and we took some pictures and enjoy the scenery. I can't even feel my pain when I was there, it was too beautiful to missed....