No responses yet – published on Jan, 04 2010 at 14:28 under Fanfiction, Holiday, Sport.
Welcome to a new decade! I hope you arrived healthy in 2010 and the New Year’s Eve was pleasant. For my part, I spent that evening with Alex and my sis’ Marina having fondue and a lot of fun playing Wii – so much fun that we got to bed at five in the morning. 
The last weeks were in general very nice. I spent a lot of time with my family and Alex, learned free cross-country skiing – a sport I always wanted to try and I fell in love with – and I enjoyed my holidays.
Finally, we also got a bit of snow on Christmas Day – not much, but better few than no snow at all – and I have tried the first time in my life cross-country skiing, skating to precise. It was so much fun that I bought me my own skis and equipment. It’s no cheap sport at all and I am sure that I spent over 600€ for everything: skis (Fischer), boots (Salomon), binding (Salomon), sticks (Swix), Björn Daehli pants and jacket. Nevertheless, I am now very proud of my first tries and I am getting better already. It also helps very much that my dad and my sis’ are doing that sport some years and that they can give me tips. Hopefully, next weekend will be not that cold at the last – -10°C were nearly too cold for skating – then I can train again. 
Before I end the first post in the new year I want to congratulate myself to the third place in the fanfiction winter contest of FF@OBL. The task was to write a ficlet containing ten given words. My story “Zauber der Winterzeit” was selected on the third place and that was quite surprising for me. Therefore I will post the story also here on my blog under writings – it couldn’t be that bad.
Not the best conditions for skiing and sledding, but winter will surely come again. Please enjoy the following wallpaper. It’s a creation for the 