Long time no news: 1st month in Obertauern!
Hey everyone,
Soooo, it’s been a while!! Loads has happened in the past couple of weeks so here’s another update to make some of you a little more jealous;)
It’s been over a month since I passed my Anwärter in Kaprun, an experience not soon to forget! While in Vienna we were all a bit nervous for the course and more scared than excited. Completely unnecessary it turned out!
Noor and I were placed together and were surprisingly the babies of the group, when most of our group members were between 22 and 26 years old. Together with our cute Ausbilder Peter we played warm up games that reminded me of elementary school and found out that even when skiing with our skis like a “pizza slice” those Austrian ausbilders would find things to criticize on. While learning what exercises to do with real kiddos on the piste, Noor and I were secretly crushing on the cute 22 year old ausbilder from the group practicing beside us who turned out to work in Obertauern as well! (Benji if you’re reading this, we’ll chat at après ski tomorrow).
Long story short, Kaprun turned out to be wayyy more fun than expected, and was brought to a great ending by passing all 3 parts of the Anwärter! On the same day of the results we took a taxi to Obertauern to start our next adventure.
Once we got there our boss no longer picked up the phone and the ski school was closed. So there we were…3 lost ski instructors in the middle of the road with shit loads of stuff and no place to stay. When we went into one of the hotels explaining we were the new ski instructors for the season and Casper used all his charms on the girl by the reception, the 3 of us (Noor, Casper and I) enjoyed the BEST night in a 4 star hotel. Lets just say our introduction to our actual place for these 5 months the next day wasn’t the most enjoyable moment of our career. Noor and I take our daily camping trip to the sportcentre at the end of our street to take an actual warm shower, as us girls tend to need a certain amount of water to come from the shower head to be able to wash our hair (nothing like the shower in our appartment as you can guess). I think everyone doing actual sports in the sportscentre can also tell when we have arrived, as we tend to give them free entertainment with our karaoke concerts while showering ;)
The first month of work in Obertauern has also passed by now, and loads of après skiing has been done. Getting those little ones on skies for the first time on Sunday and racing down blue and red runs on Friday have resulted in some very proud moments. There seems to be someone trying to make skiing a bit more difficult for me however, as my skies have already been stolen once and my poles 3 times. Thankfully poles are unnecessarily when teaching 5 year olds to ski like and airplane;)
Christmas was one of the most memorable once so far, as I got to spend it with my real family as well as my ski family in snowy Obertauern! Thanks Mum, Dad, Floris and Soof for visiting me here and see you soon<3 I hope everyone else had a good Chrismas and a happy 2017.
Until the next update,
xx
Wien!
GrĂĽĂź Gott!
Give me another couple of weeks and I'll be speaking some decent german while hopefully getting some kiddos on skis in Obertauern!
We're currently on our way to Kaprun after 12 amazing days in Vienna. It's waaay too early (6:30am), but after a stressful morning we got all of our bags and ourselves on the train. Currently using the train's wifi to update the blog!
My time in Vienna together with our little ski fam (Noor, Fleur, Sanne, Britt, Daphne, mama Inge, Ralph, Marnix and Petur) has been amazing! From sightseeing to netflix to christmas markets and card games, we've done it all.
During the week we had german class every morning from 9-12:30 from the most adorable old lady who was half deaf, which made it a bit more challenging at times. In the afternoon we went out to explore the city and have some fun.
On Monday we went to see Schloss Schönbrunn, also known as the palace of Sissi. We walked through the museum and gardens, both equally beautiful. The day after we went to the Wien museum and enjoyed some of the MANY Christmas markets in Vienna.
We did a good job on cooking dinner most nights, but couldn't resist the soup in bread bowls on the Rathaus platz christmas market.
We also went to see the Karls Kirche, in which they had built a panorama lift and stairs that took us to the top of the church. These stairs were incredibly wobbly and scary, but the view was beautiful. After this somewhat scary activity, Fleur, Sanne, Noor and I decided to do the grocery shopping for that night and head home. That sounds easier than it was, considering it took us a total of 2 hours to find our way back home because we figured the tram would "probably just come back around and make another loop". Big mistake. We did however do
a sort of "hop on, hop off" bus tour during that night, even though i hope the actually bus tours take you somewhere else.
During our one weekend in Vienna we went to the Natural Historic Museum and had some bratwurst for lunch. We also went to see Austria's National Library, which felt a bit like walking through Hogwarts, and had some drinks that night to celebrate the weekend.
Sunday morning we had breakfast at Hotel Sacher, with a traditional sacher torte and some coffee/hot chocolate. It was fun to experience having coffee in such a beautiful and luxurious hotel! Meanwhile it was getting colder in Vienna and so the scarfs and gloves were being taken out of the suitcases and the whining started. This did however make the afternoon hot chocolate breaks even more pleasurable.
On Monday we started class again and went to see the United Nations headquarter, where we got a private tour after passing through airport-like security. On Tuesday we also got a tour through Vienna's house of parliament, which is basically a museum (just like all of the city!). On wednesday we had asked to move our german classes to the afternoon, so that we could go and see the horse training at the Spanische Hofreit Schule. It was fun to see the young horses being trained, while we were also fascinated by one of the riders' eyebrows:)
The day after we were all given our german certificate, while the afternoon was used mostly to try and fit all our stuff back into our suitcases and backpacks just like it had fit on the way here. We had some pizza and stressfully tried to get some taxis to pick us up at 5:30am the next morning. Last minute we also managed to break Sanne's bed, which we very smartly decided to be honest about. Some last minute stress never hurst.
Thankfully we are now all on the train getting ready for our Anwärter in Kaprun. I think i speak for all of us when I say that we're a bit nervous and not necessarily excited for the upcoming 2 weeks, but I'm positive we'll make it through!
Xx
pictures coming soon! (Also on facebook)
Ook een hele leuke blog van mijn reisgenootje Noor:http://snowfornoor.reismee.nl/reisverhaal/322860/wien/
Welkom op mijn Reislog!
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Groetjes,
Emilie
Lets go!!!
Hey everyone!
Yesterday (Sunday november 20th), I left from Schiphol Airport to go to Austria for the next 5 months to be a ski instructor! My plan is to first go to Vienna for about 2 weeks for a german language course, which will focus mostly on ski terms to get us to pass the german Anwarter diploma. I'm staying here with 9 other Dutchies and 1 guy from Iceland in an appartment. We have class in the morning and free time in the afternoon to go and explore beautiful Vienna! In 12 days all of us will be catching a train to Kaprun.
There we will be making 10 very long days in order to pass our Anwarter! This Anwarter is the diploma we need to be allowed to teach skiing in Austria. When I've hopefully passed this exam, I'll be going to Obertauern to teach at ski school Frau Holle, together with Noor, a girl who's also staying in Vienna and Kaprun with me. In obertauern we'll be staying in an accomodation by the skischool together with the other instructors, ready to have a good time!
I'll be missing everyone loads, but you're welcome to come visit me in Obertauern at any time
I'm planning to update you on my adventures, so keep posted on the blog!
xx Emilie
