Skiing in Japan

Hey, guess what, I’m busy!  So many things coming to our face, us, the poor IUJ students, especially MBA :p. Internship applications, homeworks, assignments, homeworks again, group work, group meetings, maintaining a social life, and, for the bravest people in IUJ, JAPANESE!!!! You spend long long nights not moving forward, and then you feel sleepy during classes, then you take a nap, it’s a vicious circle… Anyway, I’m not here to take about class, but about snow! Yeah cause right now, it’s winter (just in case you didn’t notice). As you might have seen in my pics, from my window you can see a ski resort. In fact, it’s Urasa’s ski resort. And guess what? As local students, we get discounts. It’s kind of a small resort, two or three runs only, but good enough to get you back in business.

So, last week, first time back on skis since… I can’t even remember but I think it’s something like 5 or 6 years. Let’s just say, "a long time". Ok, first things first, we headed to the ski rental place. Big surprise, skis are like 30 years-old. As expected we had some troubles with ski boots but eventually the owner got it figured out. That guy also had a strange way of evaluating the right height for poles.

 
As you can see, everybody’s excited, first day of skiing of the year, but might not be the last…

People are happy, sun is shining. Perfect day.

Main thing about these chairs: no security bar!!! I was kind of used to it when I was in Europe, but here I guess they just let people fall off the chair and die (or break a leg). The things you see on the right are the nightlights, because yes, even on very very small ski resort, you can ski at night!!! I’ve not tried yet, but I might do it once just to experience it.

Very nice view… And the good side of being a student, you can go skiing while others are at work. The resort is almost always empty during daytime!!!! Anyway, to show you how it looks, a short video:

In page 2, the rest of the day…

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 I told you the view is nice! First descent was ok for everybody as far as I can remember, even though the skis were a bit long. We stopped for a short break around noon for lunch.

Pretty empty, I told you! 

With confidence back on track, it was time to have a bit of fun:

The day ticket ends at 5pm, and they turn on the lights, clubbing atmosphere:

Overall a very good!!!