The difference of a clear day

Day one, I looked out of the window...cloud cover, snow storm, not that impressive.

Today I opened the curtains to find...

LES DENTS DU MIDI!!!

How beautiful, right??

HIGH ALTITUDE HOME

So, I made it up the mountain, which will be my home for the next four months.

After a late arrival in the dark, I had dinner with the rest of the team, all of whom seem really chilled. After having made an executive decision to try eating meat, I downed some ham pasta and surprisingly felt okay.

Looks like it was a good decision, as the guys told me the chef does not understand the word vegetarian! Lunch today saw me on the old chicken salad, it was weird to be eating it after so many years, but I have to admit I am feeling better now than before...or maybe it's the placebo effect.

The challenge is the day a big old slab of steak is pushed in front of me.

Anyway, no skiing as of yet, but hopefully soon. Tonight I'm starting work as 'KPing' aka as the kitchen porter, so basically washing up, which is a nice easy start.

Everybody here is English, it's good to be able to get my feelings across without having to think too hard or try and think of French jokes, but I am missing French a bit.

The housekeeper and director are both French, so I have had some chats with them, and both seem impressed at my level, which always feels amazing to hear.

Other than that I'm all good. No homesickness yet, but then it's early days and I'm just adapting and taking my time. All shall be well.

Really want to get on with some skiing though, until then I will be playing in and staring at the beautiful surroundings outside of my bedroom.

I took the above pictures on a little walk around earlier. It was literally breathtaking, I could definately feel the altitude on the walk back uphill, it took twice as long what with the lack of oxygen up here at 1,670m.

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Off to buy a sim card!