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Update on my snowboarding trip

So here's my update on my snowboarding experience. We went to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany for the weekend last month and stayed at Edelweiss. It was a beautiful little area and we were able to go on a few tours including the Neuschwanstein Castle.

The weather sucked. It was nearly non-existent so the mountain did not have much snow. The higher we went the better the snow, but some of the lower areas were basically dirt. The ride to get up to the higher areas was nerve-racking. I don't like heights, but thankfully we didn't take very many trips.

I fell plenty of times, but I had a ton of fun. I was with a group of 4 others, all pretty experienced snowboarders and skiers, but I was able to keep up for the most part. There were so many incredibly steep areas, and their Easy sections were not as easy as I would have liked.

I haven't learned very much, and my feet still don't get it, but at least I've figured out how to stay on my feet for longer runs. I wish we were able to go more often this winter, but I'm looking forward to next year.

-Brooke Coty

Brain on overload

So the Army decided to send me to school for almost 30 days which has been very stressful. I have been trying to manage keeping up with my school assignments as well as the assignments the school requires me to do. The school is designed to develop future leaders for the Army and we have a crazy schedule. I have been getting up at 0500 every morning and the earliest I have been able to leave the classroom was 2000. On top of that the computers there will not let me post my school assignments because the computers’ Java updates are somehow not working. I have been very stresses the last two weeks trying to maintain good grades in both schools. The one thing I learned from these last two weeks, is how to maintain good time management. The first week was very hard because everything was new, but I have been doing better in the second week. The funny thing is, we do not even have internet access in the building we sleep in, and I have to go outside with my laptop in order to post any of my school assignments. The good thing is, that I actually printed my syllabus, so I just sit in my room and do all my assignments on a word document first and then I go outside and post them to the conferences and assignments folder. At first it was a real hassle but I think I have it figured out now. Hopefully next time I am enrolled I do not get sent to a school at the same time :)