Unless you happen to be in the Southern Hemisphere, you're back in school after Christmas break. Then you're just on summer vacation. But my break ended Thursday. Why school resumed on a Thursday? I have no idea. But I had a good break. After Christmas, I went to Latvia to stay with my host dad's parents for a few days. We ended up skiing for four straight days. While my knees and the rest of the muscles in my body didn't like me after that, I had fun. There are no mountains in Lithuania or Latvia though, so we went to some hills. I have grown up skiing at the Homestead in northern Michigan. It's a tiny place that doesn't have very good hills, but it's decent and fun. Now these hills didn't compare to the Homestead! The first hill I went to was called Cat's Hill (in Latvian though). There was a bunny hill and an extremely steep one. Now I haven't been skiing since our class trip to Boyne Mountains almost two years ago, but I skied every weekend during the winter at the Homestead for five or six years when I was younger. It took me about two runs on the bunny hill to get back into skiing. Muscle memory. But when I attempted to tackle the cliff, I rolled part-way down. Needless to say, I chilled in the cafe for the rest of the day. We were there two more days, but I didn't ever feel like venturing to the big hill again. What matters was I had fun. The third day, we went to another hill. This was only one hill, but a nice one. Maybe a blue hill? I don't really know. But I liked that day the best. I got a few pictures of the town I stayed in and to see them on Facebook, click here
Now the rest of my break was pretty good. I didn't do much, I just hung out at my house, watched movies, wrote, read, and that good stuff. I did go to the movies once to see Little Fockers. It was OK, not as funny as I thought it would be. I also went to get some amazing sushi with my host mom! And while out with my host mom, we went into a store to look and see if they had any magazines in English. They did but they were only business magazines so we didn't get them. But what else was in this store? Silly Bandz. Yes, Silly Bandz. They took over every person under the age of 25 (and my mom) this past summer in America and now they're here. The infestation is spreading!
