07 January, 2007

Off Yonder

We just came back from the train station, delivering Nomad Son (and one hundred other youths, four teachers, and one doctor) on his way on a school ski trip in the Austrian Alps.

skitrip
Over the heads of the congregating masses…

This fine tradition began nearly sixty years ago. The 10th grade students all go off for two weeks to a ski hut at the top of a mountain and “bond”. The nearest village is an hour’s hike away down the mountain. As far as I can decipher, the whole brood of them are isolated up on this mountaintop with nothing more to do than ski, ski, ski, and, for a little change, ski.

What an amazing adventure (torture) this will be.

The question is, what sort of adult do you have to be, to voluntarily agree to spend two weeks with over a hundred 15-17 year olds at the top of a lonely mountain?

1 comment:

  1. Susanne12:39 pm

    Well, for one you have to be a PE teacher. And then I don't think they volunteer - they're drafted. (They go skiing from Lübeck??? I thought students living in Northern Germany were exempted from this skiing madness.)

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