Well it seems that alot has happened since my last post. As usual the internet is a bit of a mystery here, thus my lack of blogging. But for the moment it's here, and I have enough patience to try to upload a few things. So let's see a brief run down of the last month or so.

I've been doing alot of skiing and although I think it's safe to say I'm the worst skiier in the village I certainly have a good time. There will be ski videos to come, but for the moment they are on some one else's camera. Aside from ski adventures, I celebrated my 23rd birthday. I know that I usually have a birthday celebration with friends at Denison and then a birthday weekend at home and to some that might seem a bit excessive. But this year has certainly outdown all the rest in the amount of celebrating. The celebrations began the night before in the village with a friend who shares the same birthday, it seemed only right that we celebrate together. There was a round of genepy for all and alot of time hanging out with friends who I hadn't seen in quite some time. The night of my birthday was celebrated with a big Moroccan dinner courtesy of one of the other residence, a wonderful torta, and then a gift of brand new ski goggles. I promptly put the goggles to use to next day for a ski adventure with Francesca, Marcolino, and Valentina. The evening of the 16th was the beginning of Waldensian festivals in the valley and so the celebrations continued. The evening began with a bunch of skiiers coming down the mountain with torches to light all of the bonfires in our village and the surrounding villages.

We stopped by a couple bonfires on our way to dinner, had a couple glasses of VinBroule and then headed off to have dinner with all of the young people from the village. The grand finale was a 4 hour lunch at the church the following afternoon. After all of which we all need a big nap and not to eat for a few days. It was a great birthday and thank you all for the birthday wishes.