January 16, 2009 09:24 by
Seth
so i awoke to a sight i have never seen in korea this morning... actually i awoke to darkness as the time change au natural hasn't worked great so far.. lay there for an hour and a half until it was an acceptable hour to start making noise around my roommate graham. but then there it was, i pulled back the curtains and snow! actual snow falling in korea. granted it was just a trace but it really brightened the mood and i even had hopes of it slowing down the treacherous ice luge of an sbx track, but in the end it did the opposite and the speeds got faster..
despite this i pretty much got my skirt pulled off today in training. although i think it might have caught a bit on my back binding which kept me having this speed checking twitch but at least i got it over the boots.. it was a carnage factory out there again today. blown knees, broken bones.. lots of start stop! (this is said in a very austrian accent and means someone is broken down below and no one else can ride until the korean ski patrol has slid in and sledded said broken person away) sort of like the wayne's world version of car!, game on on the street hockey game.
at the world championships there is a nations quota system so that all the countries that are too bad to qualify onto the world cup get their guaranteed start spots so the iranians, israelis, and kahzakstanis are all in the proverbial house giving it a go. makes for a long day but some good entertainment.. the broken ones were not just from the untalented pool and i was left scrambling in my role of playing god for x-games and admitting new riders into the big show in the name of getting extreme!
so i have to hand it to the korean breakfast cooks. they are pulling off something i have never seen before and cooking omelets to order with chopsticks.. it involves a very patient flipping method with many little handle taps to get the flip.. so it is off to start a new book and fight the jet lag longer. jet lag took out a contract on me earlier and the snipers got me face down and pinned me there for many hours this afternoon. my battle continues..