Snowboarding 2 full days straight at Squaw Valley --> awesome. Now that I have control of what I'm doing (stopping, turning, switching sides, leafing, slowing down, jumping off the lift), its getting a lot more addicting. Yay for no more crashes and big bruises!

So while I thought I was gonna board with just Nancy and her friend Dan in a big cabin, it turns out we were lodging with 35+ other ppl. Spent the whole weekend sleeping, eating, and partying with the UCD/Alpine Ski Team in celebration of initiation weekend -- similar to random frat/sorority rituals -- welcoming new members, and fake ones (like myself).

Quite honestly, I didn't even know our school had a ski team, but they're totally friendly and foreign (literally -- London, Siberia?). Oh yea, and happy big B, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although I was 1 of 5 "colored" ppl in the cabin (and possibly the entire resort), if it weren't for him, we wouldn't even be allowed to enjoy the gorgeous slopes.

Oh yea, and somebody should slap those white bitches who gave Nancy a tough time to receive snow patrol service, and the one who yelled at me for 5 minutes for bumping into her on a slope, and for the one who ignored our numerous requests for a cashier in the board shop, and to the one on the cable car giving attitude to the Mexican family that just wanted to LOOK at the mountains thru the windows because they couldn't afford actual lift tickets. Btw, I met more nice white ppl this weekend than my entire life combined. Its just that I also recognize that racism exists more often than neccessary, and sometimes its done in such an obvious manner, that I'm too shocked to call on it. Plus I don't wanna get my ass beaten by a bunch of ppl with personal lawyers waiting on them.