Austria Trip 2013

From 22nd to the 29th March 2013, 15 eager and enthusiastic DSMS pupils went on a skiing trip to Austria. The trip departed at 7AM on Friday 22nd where the pupils prepared for a 28 hour coach journey. Just before arriving in Dover, the group were joined by some Welsh students whom were also going skiing in Austria. Despite England's loss to Wales in the 6 Nations the parties still had dinner together on an evening, they skied together and they did joint activities on an evening.

Anyway, after watching numerous films, including Batman, and a ferry journey across the English channel, the group including 5 teachers arrived in Neukirchen in Austria.

(Below, the town where we were skiing, the hotel is the yellow house shape)

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On Sunday 24th the Skiers started their first skiing lessons, they were split into 3 groups - a group of people who had been skiing before, a group who were first time skiers and a group in between them of people who weren't pro skiers however weren't beginners either.

Each day after dinner on an evening the teachers awarded a skier of the day which was one person out of every group who had excelled during that day. There was also a 'wally of the day' award which usually went to someone who had done something absolutely idiotic such as dropping their drink over themselves by accident.

The DSMS Skiers 2013

One of the outstanding views (above)

One thing which everyone found amazing was how pretty the Alps were and the scenery around where they were skiing. Unfortunately, most of it went unappreciated most of the time because everyone was concentrating so much on the skiing.

Evening activities included swimming, a quiz and spending time in the hotel's games room where pupils could play things such as pool and table tennis.

By the end of the week, almost everyone who went on the trip could ski, some of them were even going down red and black slopes (which were steep and bumpy!)

The group departed for Darlington at 6PM on Thursday 28th March. Everyone was extremely worn out after an intense 5 days of skiing. Luckily, they now have the Easter holidays to relax.

Read a stream of Tweets from the trip here: http://sfy.co/jH3e


Find out more about the Austria 2013 trip in Episode 11 of the Wyvern TV and Issue 15 of the Wyvern (both coming soon).