First Week Down

So. It's been a week since we arrived here in Panorama, and it's going great so far. The resort is beautiful, I've never seen so much snow in my life, and the people here are fantastic! Almost all the staff are travellers so they're all super friendly which makes for a really good time.

During our first weekend here the resort threw us a "Disorientation Party" as a welcome for all the staff. The party was massive, taking up the T-Bar and the Wildfire restaurant next door. After some pre-party times at our place, we arrived at the T-Bar a little too late to get in where the band was playing so we moved next door to where the DJ was. The whole night was really great, when the restaurant had its last call we moved to the bar and danced to this great band called Shred Kelly. They sort of reminded me of Mumford and Sons, only a touch more upbeat, I would definitely recommend them.

For a little while everyone sort of ran out of things to do around here, and that, combined with it constantly snowing, kept us all inside for about two days straight. A little sad, I know. But our apartment is just so warm! You try leaving it for an extended period of time and see how it feels!
But then Tuesday rolled around, so Courtney and I started our first day of work. I was a little bit, completely, terrified to be starting the job - convinced I was going to screw everything up. But it wasn't actually that bad. We started at 7:30am, which was a little bit awful, but the girl who was training us (Sif, she is from Denmark) is really nice and the store was actually pretty quiet so we had a lot of time to get used to using the computer system. Thankfully all the customers were extremely understanding and lovely when we were a touch slow.
That night our boss (Jacob, also from Denmark) had all the staff (there are five of us) around for dinner at his place here in the village. There are some wines at the store he wants us to promote to customers so we had a bit of a wine tasting at the same time. Jacob and his girlfriend cooked a delicious roast for us, and it was probably the best meal we have had since we got here. Plus, it was free, so that's always great too.

Yesterday was the big Christmas party (themed 'wild west' for some reason) in the Great Hall. Turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie - it was fantastic. There was a raffle, not that we came close to winning anything, and some pretty cool costumes. Two guys came dressed as cacti and one girl came as a bale of hay. While the rest of us tried to fit in by wearing checked shirts, I found mine at the thrift store for $2. Bargain.
After the dinner, we all moved to the bar again. The DJ this time, however, was not quite as good. As one of the boys pointed out, he was just a guy with a Mac. But we still had a good time all the same.

Anyway, as you can see, not a lot of exciting stuff has been happening. But my sister sent me a fairly intense message asking for an update so I thought I better.
The resort officially opens tomorrow though, so hopefully I'll have something more interesting to say next time.

Thanks for reading!