Sking in Korea! - January 12th Monday

"It's going to be a fantastic day ever!" I shouted loudly as I walked through a main entrance of Sajo ski area. Everyone including me, were holding their ski plates and ski poles. Before we wore the ski plates, we had to warm up. We warmed up like atheletic. After we warmed up, we started to wear the pair ski plates but most of them had trouble with wearing ski plates. However, I was used to wearing ski plates so, I wore it really fast without any troubles and I rushed to a ski lift but I didn't know what level I should ride. I waited for my friends to come. When my friends came to me, they told us that there are four courses in this ski area. First course was for novice/begginer, second course was middle, third course was middle - high, and fourth course was highest level. We decided to go to ride a novice level course first to see that I was warmed up.

"Amazing!" I whispered to my friend's ear as I rode the ski lift. Later, it lifted higher and higher so that I couldn't see the people very well. When I saw the ground down, I congealed. I froze like a ice, without a word. Then, I safely arrived to the novice course's peak. When I started to ski, I thought this course was very easy for me but it wasn't. I shouted in horror in my heart as I started to go down the novice course. Somehow, someone (I believe he was novice) crashed to me but problem was that I didn't fell off but that guy did. I apolozied to him and I came down as fast as I could. I was embrassed and my face blushed. I knew that it was his fault but I was just embrassed and nothing else. When I came back from peak to ground, I started to challenge myself. "Let's go to middle course!" I talked myself.

As I rode a middle course ski lift, I repeated myself. "I think I've made a wrong decision..." But it was too late! Already, lift was lifted up and there was no choice but to ride it. "Oh, dear..." Generally, I try to challenge myself but I thought this was not a good challenge. It went to higher peak than before. However, it looked easy to me and it was actually easy. It only took few minutes to go down. I relized that this course wasn't challenging for me also because this time, there was no accident, nothing. I thought about the highest course in here. It wasn't novice course, it wasn't middle level course. It was a highest level course. I decided to do it - to ride it. I took a lift with my friend and I can't make time back.

It took almost 4 minutes to reach to the highest peak in this ski area. "Oh.. this is going to be the impossible mission..." "What have I done? Kevin!" I muttered. Finally, we reached to the peak. The higehst peak. When I looked down, it was steeper than I thought. While I was looking down to see how steep it is, my friend already took off his ski plate. "I am goin' to walk down... It's too steep for me to ski..." he told me. Later, he asked me to walk together but I didn't. I started to ski. "Control yourself... Control yourself..." I muttered. While I was sking down, I almost crashed to other snowboarder but I didn't fall and he didn't fall either. Phew! Approximately, six minutes later, I safely arrived to the ground. Everyone was surprised and I was proud of myself. However, it was scary too! I was sure that I won't ski with that highest course by myself.