Bulgaria Ski discussion board

that is an idea thanks
she enjoyed ski-ing but not with the instructor - the instructor lost her up on the slopes when she fell and hurt herself and the instrucot had, for what to her seemed quite along time and she got shouted at by some passing people (she was 9then)
she was happy after going up the drag lift in front of the rila and ski-ing down etc but she doesnt want an instructor this time and only wants to ski if she herself wants to and as its her holiday too iv said ok, she wanted to ice skate everyday this time around when we go
she has said she might ski but might not and il not force her, shes a happy child and likes doing her own thing quietly and wants to build a snowman as she has never got to build one here in wiltshire yet...
we'll see she made friends with my boarding instructor and she has spoken to him via email a few times and he has offered to take her boarding if shed like to try and she quite liked that idea - he helped her confidence after she had her scare

Gosh that sounds a bad enough experience for an adult let alone a child. Reading posts on this board last season it does seem to be a bit hit and miss whether you get a good instructor or not. I was in Bansko in Feb but didn't use ski school. Saw people on the slopes and in the mountain restaurants with their instructors and everyone seemed happy. Luck of the draw I suppose. I learnt on a dry slope here and have never used ski school in any resort. I keep toying with the idea of having a one to one lesson to improve my technique but always seem to blunder around the slopes on my own.

Val

sorry thata was meant to read
...." and the instrucot had gone on with the others and no stopped to help her, for what to her seemed quite along time".....
a kind man (with children her age with him) stopped to help her and he was great as he spoke english to her (she didnt think he spoke it like we do -so im not sure if he was foreign or just a strong accent) and he seemed to know shed worry about going with a man so he said to her that they where going down the slopes and did she want to walk down with them to the bottom of the slopes where she could find someone and they were going to stay on the slope with the other peopleand hed shout back at anyone if they got shouted at
or could he go down and get anyone, the children with him spoke to her to and she walked down with them and he carried her skis so she could go on if she wanted and after a while they met her instructor comeing back looking for her.
so huge thanks to that man -i never got to meet him to say thank you.
what got me is after the lesson picking her up the lady (insructor) said nothing to me about her having been lost or getting scared - think my daughter was abit worried about saying to me that shed "gone off" with a stranger though