Thursday the 15th of October, 5am in the morning, waking up to a loud beeping alarm. I grabbed my bags waiting for Daniel to pick me up. Oh wait! He's here just as I sat down! Yay, our journey starts. I’m already bored but I can't wait to get there, I can feel the excitement in my gut. Yes we're entering Ohakune where the big carrot stands. We checked in and got some high vis gear so our teachers can tell its us and they will know where we are. We are heading through a forest going up the winding road to get to the car park. We were the first ones there. It's 7am and we’re ready for the morning start!
We collect our gear ready to get our lessons started. My teacher arrives, first we start on how to slow down by swerving in and out. Yes, my lesson is over. Time to go up the mountain. As we are going up the chairlift we saw lots of people climbing to the top of the mountain to see the hot water in the middle.
After we hopped off the chairlift, we buckled our boots into the snowboard, and off we went. I was thinking it wasn’t too bad until I hit a straight and went flying into a pile of snow. I started eating it so I wouldn’t feel so embarrassed.
As we reached the bottom, I felt proud of myself and thought I should challenge myself and go higher up the mountain.
By the end of the day I was exhausted! I can't wait to go up the mountain again.
