Day seven

A lie in! Everyone had an extra half hours sleep before breakfast and what's more the sun is shining for the final days skiing. Although tired everyone is up for a great last day.
The morning session on the slopes was great with a small amount of new snow that freshened the slopes. By lunch everyone was buzzing and looking forward to lunch and then the final session of the day. A few students took the lunch break as an opportunity to do some shopping while others just chilled ready for the afternoon session.
It's an interesting observation that some students have spent out while others have taken nothing from the bank, perhaps demonstrating that the food and entertainments provided were sufficient and any other spending could be seen as a luxury.

Everyone was on time for the final session of the week... Where has the time gone? The improvements from everyone are incremental as each new technique is mastered. Some members of the group have gone from being raw beginners having never even worn ski boots to being able to get down the mountain on blue runs under control and respecting the ski code. I have been pleased with all the skiing this week although our few boarders taking up skiing did particularly well. The advanced group took up the challenges thrown down to them while the intermediate group improved on technique and took on the challenge of steeper and narrower slopes.
Everyone was disappointed at the end of the day when all equipment came to be returned. Despite two poles being broken somehow we managed to return two extra helmets and five extra poles and accounted for everything else.

The ski presentation was led by Francis, Robin and Gaspard our three instructors from l'ecole skis du Francais who were all complimentary about our students who all received their ski log books accrediting their progress by the end of the week. Thank you's over and farewells done our last supper was fish 'n chips followed by fresh fruit salad with vanilla ice cream.