Five of the six kids in my class were returning - and one kid was new. He was a bit of a heavy kid and he wasn't thrilled at all to be coming to Snow School. Mom and Dad said he has been in a Private lesson for the last four days and that he was linking his turns so he was a level three. They all seemed confident he was turning so I added him to my class and we rocked up to the Roundhouse for our one run before lunch.
Luckily I had a shadow with me as the new kid was technically a level two. I knew he wasn't going to make it through any powder so I opted out of the super pow run down Ego Bowl. We slowly made our way down to the CLC - by the time we got there, this kid was exhausted.
I knew I should have put him down into level two at lunch but because he was so discouraged with coming to Snow School in the first place, I felt bad for him and I hesitated. I figured we could take one more run from CLC to bottom and if he was too tired after that, then I could leave him with the lower level. Boy did I make a mistake!
He was sooooooo slow. Half way down I had to tell my shadow to take the rest of the kids up the gondola and I'd meet them at the CLC afterwards. I needed to stick with the slow kid and put him into level two and I didn't want the other kids to have to wait for him. I think it took this kid over an hour to ride to the Village.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I didn't end up riding too much today. On the plus side, I have the next couple of days off.
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