| Around a year ago I went on a snow boarding | | | | clothing. I personally never bothered, as I was |
| vacation to Europe and had a great time by all | | | | currently struggling for money, surviving merely on |
| accounts. The best part was that I went with all my | | | | the pay that I got for working in a local MP3 player |
| friends, all of which had varied abilities in the sport. | | | | shop. |
| Some of my friends compete in competitions and the | | | | When we hit the slopes I cannot explain how brilliant |
| like, whilst others have only been on the slopes a | | | | it actually was. We had never had an opportunity to |
| few times in their life. The fact is that we were all | | | | ride a snow board on snow, apart from one of my |
| really looking forward to it, and we were all sure to | | | | friends who has more of an interest in the sport than |
| enjoy ourselves whilst we were away. The fact is | | | | the rest of us. We decided that would really just do |
| that we do not spend that much time together, as | | | | our own thing, please ourselves and then meet up at |
| we all went to different colleges whilst others | | | | night. This is not the way it worked out as we had |
| decided to enter the world of work and go out their | | | | such a laugh out their on the slopes. My best friend |
| and get a job. | | | | Blair was struggling at first so I done my best to |
| When we decided to book the holiday I was | | | | teach him about how to handle the slopes. After a |
| delighted to hear that everybody was able to make | | | | few hours he was doing great, and even managed a |
| it, and that everyone had promised to save up | | | | nice little Ollie or two. After our hard days on the |
| enough money to really enjoy themselves while we | | | | slopes we couldn't wait to get home and get a |
| were away. The cost of booking the holiday worked | | | | shower. Although it is not cold, when your clothes |
| out at around $300 for accommodation for the week | | | | get wet, it can become very tiring and you often |
| as we were going to be staying at a backpacker's | | | | feel like getting in, having a hot shower and changing |
| location, and it was only going to cost $150 for return | | | | your clothes. |
| flights. We really felt like we had struck a bargain, | | | | Next thing it was time to get out their and sample |
| and we were even more delighted when we heard | | | | the night life. This is what we had been looking |
| that the cost of living would be really cheap when | | | | forward to, we had heard great things about |
| we got their. We had decided to save up $1000 | | | | European girls, and we were sure to enjoy ourselves |
| each, which meant that we would have more than | | | | getting to know the culture. We firstly went out for |
| enough spending money for when we arrived. | | | | a meal, and we all ended up having burger and chips! |
| The price being so cheap, some of my friends | | | | Next we went to a local club and really had a great |
| decided to go online and buy some equipment for | | | | night. This was the pattern for the rest of the week |
| the trip and that was anything from new boards to | | | | and I can hardly say that I regret it. |