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FRIDAY 3RD JANUARY

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MEMORIES MADE... Very simply, what a wonderful week with an incredible group in an outstanding setting. With temperatures dropping to minus 7 degrees today we had our final ski sessions, packing in the full day before travel. Those pesky students just keep shaking off the tiredness in the legs as they fly around the pistes and the progress they have all made is staggering. The older generations (the staff) make mental notes to do more exercise preparation before future trips! The final goodbyes to their beloved instructors were highly emotional as the realisation of the week drawing to a conclusion occurred. After a fish and chips dinner and final thank yous to the hotel staff, the St John’s staff and to the students themselves, the journey commenced. As we post this final entry we are making our way north to the ferry port.  It is really important to add that our students have done us proud at every exchange throughout this week. The feedback from anyone they have had ...
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THURSDAY 2ND JANUARY

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THE LAST FULL DAY!!  The students received their skiing awards for the week on the last full day in resort. Everyone received their French Ski School achievement booklets and stamp to show their progress. They’ll be able to bring those booklets on any future trips to build on their ability- great to see how much progress has been made in a week!  Tonight we once again awarded students with awards for positivity, progress and can-do attitude. Our coveted ‘Marmie Award, where a chosen student looks after the one and only ”Marmie” received some siblings - see pictures!  Our end of trip disco has gone down a storm. Dance offs, singing, musical statues - we have seen the night off in style. A great day had by all!!  Some more pictures from our music quiz last night:  Awards tonight:  Skiing today; 
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WEDNESDAY 1ST JANUARY - HAPPY NEW YEAR

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We have had an absolutely cracking day! Weather conditions were once again perfect with sunny blue skies and beautifully groomed pistes. The instructors today praised the students with their attitude, willingness to learn and quick progression! We also took the opportunity to capture some professional action shots of each student skiing- we’ve seen the results already and there are some awesome photos! After some yummy Hunter’s chicken and scrummy chocolate mousse, the students sat down to compete in our much anticipated and revered music quiz. The stakes were high (pride) and competition fierce (even the hotel put forward a team!) The rounds included clips of music from films and TV shows, speed rounds, ‘the classics’ as well as a rock ‘n’ roll guitar round. By the end we had all students on their feet, singing along to ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ by Journey and Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You’. What a night!! With tonight’s activity being so popular, we will be putting ...
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TUESDAY 31ST DECEMBER

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GET YOUR SKATES ON! Blades, brilliance and balletic performance were evident in the evening activity!! From beginner to the highly experienced, thrills and spills were undoubtedly on display. The majority of the party had a cracking time on ice. Even the moon walk made an appearance (see the video!) Some of our most outstanding students have been given awards tonight- well done to those students, excellent effort! UPDATE Day 3 of skiing has once again seen some excellent progression and top quality conditions! Despite some aching muscles, to be expected, the students have all demonstrated a really admirable attitude and enthusiasm to skiing - amazing!! Tonight as it’s New Year’s Eve, we were all treated to a spectacular torchlit descent and cracking fireworks at the resort centre. All the ESF (French ski school) instructors took part in the skiing demonstration- wearing LED lit suits or holding  burning torches while skiing down the ski slope!! (Not to worry- we were ...
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MONDAY 30TH DECEMBER

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WHAT A MORNING!!!  Beautiful blue skies and crisp ski pistes have made for brilliant conditions for our students.  Many were up bright and early eager to get straight out on the slopes - great to see so much enthusiasm!  With such excellent progress yesterday, a number of students have been moved up into higher groups this morning to match their ability. Well done to them.  Student quotes: ‘I want to go on a black run!!’ - Milly Drowne (one of our beginners!)  ‘This is a big baguette’ - Bailey Pearman  ‘We love Mark our ski instructor!’ - Millie Turnell and Ella Lockwood Tonight our evening activity is ice skating! More to follow! 
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SUNDAY 29TH DECEMBER

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WHAT A START!!!!! A great night’s sleep for all meant the vast majority of students were actually early for breakfast. After croissants, pain au chocolate and much more the whole party was very quickly ready for the first ski lesson. The conditions are superb with great snow and beautiful sun and all students have been brilliant this morning, making great progress. Currently all are getting ready for the afternoon session and these students say: “I love Serre Chevalier!” Says Bea Kelly “The “drink of the day” is amazing.” Says Lucy Towle “The food is yummy.” Says Harry Harvard-Taylor UPDATE! An excellent afternoon’s skiing again under blue skies and no wind conditions. The instructors have been highly impressed by the attitude of all the students regardless of ability level. Tonight the activity is bumboarding and we have over forty students keen to take part in this strange activity! This takes place just a stone’s throw from the hotel followed by hot chocolate. More pho...
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SATURDAY 28TH DECMBER - WE'VE ARRIVED!

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As a bit of a starter to the blog...the journey is progressing well. We stopped for breakfast at the planned stop of Macon and are now slightly ahead of time. We are starting to see the distant, snow-peaked mountains on the horizon and will soon start our ascent with an ETA of 12.30pm in resort.
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