Despite our general lack of wellbeing, I took Dylan for his first Ski lesson today. I've enrolled him in a programme which does an hour every week on a Sunday morning for the next 9 weeks or so. This was his first experience on Ski's. He did remarkably well, despite the utter crapness of the teacher! There were something like 12 kids in the class and they split them rather unevenly between 2 teachers.
Dylan was in the smaller group which I thought was good to begin with, but then realised quickly that it wasn't good. The other group had the kids going on 2 ski's and doing short runs downhill within the first 30 mins. Dylans teacher spent half her time looking around, the other half looking at her watch, and occasionally asking the kids to do things which not paying any attention. It wasn't until 45 mins into the lesson that she had them on both skis.
Eventually I, and the other parents who were all hanging around, ended up helping our kids out and teaching them ourselves, which seems pointless given we paid for these classes. I'm going to call and see if I can switch him to the other group.
All that aside, he loved it and we had a great time going downhill with me chasing him to catch him!
Posted by katie at January 16, 2005 03:15 PM