The new year has arrived, as most people have noticed, maybe except for when you live in a very very far away cave where you cannot spot any fireworks exploding around you. I did notice them however, damnet stupid things, I really do not like them. I don’t like fire and I don’t like bangs.. guess what fireworks mostly is!
Therefore I’ve never really like to celebrate new year, it’s nice to watch as long as you cannot hear the bangs. But as I’m by now almost grown up, it is seen as very immature to cower behind a window and not really being inclined to go outside, even if you got shoved out the door. I do it though, I am now able to go outside around midnight and watch the fireworks, I do now mostly stand behind cars and such and big trees. I don’t know why but for some reason I still think that trees can sort of protect me from the bangs. Which of course is quite unnecessary but that is what I believe and I’m afraid that that idea won’t go away to soon.
Oh, I hate people who start lighting fireworks at the moment it’s allowed and not stop until it’s not allowed anymore. Which means that they can do it for say 16! hours in the Netherlands. My brothers are that kind of people, I always thoroughly hate them after New Year because the whole day before I keep on jumping up because a bang startled me.
So we got home the day before the last day of the year, on Saturday. We went to the Czech Republic to ski (in my case snowboard). Because of some strange new rule there are no longer any borderchecks. I’ve always thought that those were really unnecessary because the people always look in your passport, and look at it for a long long time, I always wondered what they could see in my passport. If they were perhaps looking for the word criminal written across it or something. Anyways this year they weren’t doing that, so we were extremely happy because that always took a very long time, very very long. So now the journey took a seriously smaller amount of time than before.
Anyways so we eventually arrived at our hotel, we could see the skilift working so we were all really happy, because there was a concern that there might not be enough snow to ski at all. Anyways we went into the hotel, the same one as the year before. It’s Czech so the radiators only have 1 option, extremely hot so you could hardly breathe in the rooms without the windows open. After some hassle to get settled in we found out that I had the biggest room, I of course didn’t mind that but the odd thing was that my parents who are with the two of them had a smaller room than me by myself.
Anyways we were quite early there so I thought, ok let’s go of that hill one time. However because my real gloves were still somewhere in my bag I decided to put on some quite useless gloves, so I got up the lift, the first bit actually went quite good, however I found out that my gloves suck at not leaking through so I decided that I would not rest halfway through the end bit of the slope, the bit were, if your snowboard has it’s right foot forward as mine has, you have to be on the toe-side of the snowboard meaning very heavy on the leg muscles. I came down and was sooo tired, it was amazing but I was able to get down so I was happy about that. The rest of the week also went quite good, first real day I fell causing a nice bruise on my hip but no real accidents any further. The last 2 days the slopes were ice and very crowded so that was not as fun.
Saturday we drove home, we left at half past 8 and arrived home around 6 o’clock, the fastest drive home ever!
Monday was old year, we went to a family in my old village, we made dinner together and played some games and then it was 12 o’clock. So the fireworks started, damn you fireworks! Seriously one hour of fireworks and my nerves are totally overloaded, I jump with every bang and there are a lot there so that was less fun. But well anyways, I know it’s a bit late now but:

HAVE A GREAT 2008 (it rhymes so I had to put it in)

Love, Lucy