21/12/09 The snow storm

Skiing in the morning still went normal. But after lunch, while I was skiing with my parents, the weather got worse. Our skiing started just like in the morning. We rode our most popular "Nordhang" downhill piste with red difficulty. It was kind of icy, but good to ride anyway. A small wind started when we were on the lift. When we all got of the lift my mother and brother quited. They were tiered and cold. My father and I still had fun even though the wind started to get stronger. When my father and I also gave up the wind was so strong that we hardly could ride down the course to the lift that takes us back home. There are two sections of cabin lifts down the valley. The upper lift was out of service and first I was wondering why, but when I noticed the storm again I understood why. It was out service because the wind was too strong and it would be very dangerous to transport skiers. Meanwhile my father and I were skiing down to the lower lift my mother and brother were caught in the upper lift. They were shaking back and forth in that lift. At the end we both arrived at the bus at the same time. When we came home I was in very good mood and went out to play with my brother. We first didn't know what to play but then we started to roll down a hill in the powder snow which was kind of fun. After all that playing and rolling I got super tired. In the winter I never can really get rid of my jet lag. So does the rest of us. We go to bed at 7pm and wake up at 5am. That hasn't changed for about 5 years and I don't know if it will ever change until we move back to Vienna.

20/12/09 First day of skiing this year

Like always my brother and I woke up at 4:00am. We were really hungry, so we went to the kitchen to get some food. Not too long after that my parents also woke up. The whole family ate breakfast. Because it was a Sunday, we watched Tom Turbo and Die Rätsel des Pharao. Tom Turbo is a detective series. You have to answer some questions and write down the letter that is next to it and at the end you read the word backwards. That gives you a word that you can e-mail to them or call them and say the word. They will tell you if it's correct or not and you get a chance to win something. In Die Rätsel des Pharao, kids and parents play against each other. They have to play games and who ever gets the most points is the whiner. Anyway after all the watching we went to borrow the sky gear for us kids. My parents signed us up for a skiing school. After that we went up to the mountain. Up there the other kids in the ski school were waiting and gathering. I was in the same group as my brother. The group was really slow. The teacher said that I'm going to be in a different group tomorrow. The ski school was first from 10am - 12am and then from 1pm - 3pm. I went only from 10am - 12am and afternoon I went skiing with my parents. It was way warmer with my parents than with the ski school because we were skiing faster. After that we went home and watched a movie called Lapislasuli. I don't understand the name, but I liked it. The movie was kind of weird too, because the main actors were girl from our time and a bear man looking like neanderthaler. The neanderthaler helped the girl because she has got lost in the mountains. After this movie I was really tired and went to bed.

19/12/09 Arrival in Mayrhofen

After we arrived in Vienna, my family and I took a taxi at 6:30 in the morning and drove to the Westbahnhof. The ÖBB (Österreichische Bundes Bahn) took us to Jenbach after about 5 hour ride. There we had to change trains. We didn't have alot of time, because the train that we had before was delayed. But we did it. This was a shorter ride. It was only 1 hour long. We went to Mayrhofen with this train. Taxi took my father and the suitcases to the house we stayed in. The rest of us went to Hervis in Mayrhofen. Hervis is a sport shop. My mother bought me pants and a jacket for the winter, because my outfit from last year is already too small and I really needed one or I would freeze in the snow. Then we also went to the house we stayed in. It was colder in this house than in the one we stayed in last year.

Vocabulary definitions

1. Eclectic

2. Lagging

3. Adhesive

4. Dejection

5. Traumatic

6. Revelation

7. Malevolent

8. Embankment

9. Embezzlement

10. Plaeding

Vocab definition

Pensive

Pavilion

Lucrative

Fixated

Extortion