FOLGARIDA SKI TRIP

Felipe E, Year 8 writes...

Day 1

At 7.30am on Saturday 1st April, all 50 of us arrived in Hannah House with our heavy bags and backpacks. We went to Gatwick with our teachers : Miss Walters, Mr Smith, Mr Stokoe, Mr Wynter and Mr Thornton.

After checking in and passing security, we boarded our flight to Verona. Once in Italy, we rok our second coach ride of the journey, which was about double the amount of our travel to Gatwick. We then arrived at the hotel to have dinner and sort our ski stuff, before heading to bed after more than 12 hours of travelling

Day 2 (first day of skiing)

We all woke up at 6.30am, still quite tired from the day before. We walked down to the gondola that took us to the top of the mountain, which was our first sight of snow.

We got settled and went off in our respective ski groups. There were some people on the ski trip that had never gone skiing before and they went on the same chairlift as the intermediate groups, which was amazing!

We then came down for lunch after a good morning of skiing, without too much time spent waiting for chairlifts). After eating, we went back up and had a great afternoon of skiing. We then skied back to the gondola, which took us down to the hotel.

Day 3

We all woke up at 6.30am again, having slept better because of how tired we had been. Breakfast was quite simple and the, this day, we started skiing straight down to the gondola. (Our beginner group still walked to the gondola). We again met up at the top of the mountain.

My group went over to Maddona di Campaglio, another mountain in the ski resort. I found that the gondolas there were a lot more modern. We then skied all the way back to the gondola, which took us back to the hotel. That afternoon was the first time we were able to ski down to the hotel.

That night we went to the pizzeria and had a fun evening of activities.

The following mornings and afternoons turned out to be as you would expect on a ski trip.

Day 7 (Travel day)

We got on the coach at 9.30am and set off for Verona Airport, arriving with plenty of time to spare.

We went through passports (on the Italian side) and then boarded our plane. We landed back in London and went through passports (the second time), before making our coach journey from Gatwick straight back to our School.

A massive thank you must go to all our teachers for putting up with our shenanigans during the trip.

In addition, Mr Underwood also deserves credit for setting up and organising a wonderful opportunity to go skiing.