Week 3 round up

This week involves: trained to teach, being reborn into adulthood and 2/3 of my instructor course!

Start of the week was similar to the previous week: out on the snow at 10am everyday to do our instructor training, this time with a new instructor. Adam from Coventry is another level 3 rider and is the person who will be our evaluator during weekend course, so he really knows his stuff. He began getting us familiar with the QuickRide progression system (how to teach never-evers) and reinforcing all the points Josh had made concerning our riding and the core competancies and skills of snowboarding.

On Thursday we had the morning to do on snow orientation with the snow school and all our future collègues and bosses etc, and the daily routine when being an instructor. Now i feel a bit more ready and welcomed to my new place of work! I'm sure once I pass my course (TOMORROW!) and get the snazzy new branded uniform I will really believe what an amazing place I am in and how awesome the next few months will be!

(Friday was a day off - my birthday! Where I became an adult (again) in Canada so to celebrate I headed to the top of the mountain to grab a beer, and even received a free bday brownie! Good day!)

Speaking of getting qualified, I am currently on the CASI level 1 instructor course with the other interns. I'm so happy to have had 2 weeks to get to terms with the new teaching style and improve my riding! I feel prepared for my final day and all the extra reading material had helped consolidate the knowledge too. Today we started to teach each other, and I was thinking I had it all sorted but as soon as you step up to lead, your younger gets tied! I know so much and I want to share it all with my students that it just gets over complicated really quick! I have to learn to dial it down to simplify the movements and ensure the new students understand it all and aren't bombarded with too much info.

It's a challenging balance but even to teach in imaginary classes has got me so excited to become an instructor. I believe i can do it, and I will love it! Tomorrow we specifically get introduced to teaching children which should be fun and get our results!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures! I will start to post more regularly this next week hopefully, it's been a whirlwind recently, it will get busy soon but I'm looking forward to finding a routine.

Love to all my familly xxx see you tomorrow!