I stepped into the skis with my warm boots as my aunt held me upright. My aunt used to be a ski instructor and I would be her next student. My parents did not want to ski and were watching me from the lodge. We started with the "bunny slope" or the easiest slope made specifically for first time skiers. My aunt told me to let the grade of the hill naturally take me down. Therefore, I did. She told me to turn the t

ips of the skis inward if I wanted to slow. When I tried this, I turned my skis inward a little too far and they overlapped each other. I fell instantly, facedown, on to the slushy snow. I learned that this would be harder than I thought. After all the falling and getting back up, I finally made it to the bottom. My aunt then told me, "If you think that was hard try getting off the chair lift." This frightened me when I finally looked up and saw how high the chair lift would raise me from the ground. We got in line and eventually it was our turn to get on the ski lift. We stood in front of the chair and waited for it to come and pick us up off the ground. Soon enough, I could see the chair coming to the end. My skis touched the soft snow and I tumbled down the hill to the bottom of the chair lift exit. My aunt picked me up out of the snow and said, "I told you it was hard." A few more times, we went down the beginner slopes. I then told my aunt that I was ready for the intermediate slopes. She told me that we only had time to go down one time. She also told me that if I could make it all the way down the intermediate slope without falling, she would buy me a fudge sundae. I was able to meet her bet and to this day, she still owes me the fudge sundae.

I had gone down most of the slopes and came out triumphant. I went to the only four-person lift and had to be hoisted up by the supervisor and put into the chair. While riding the lift, I met three people from Australia who had come all the way to Lake Tahoe just to ski. At the end of the lift, I got my pole caught in the hard packed snow, was tan-gled up, and fell. My right ski came off and they had to push the bright red "stop" button to stop the lift so that the next group did not hit me. This scare

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