Europens in Norway

hey guys

This is a photo of me in the waterskii europeans, middle east and south africa tornament in Norway. Every year a country holds them and we always hope that we have to go to a diferent country like south africa, or china or some country that we havent been to yet. But sadly they were in Norway.

Im the only one on the irish team this year so I went with my Dad in the car. We arrived on a saturday a few days before the tournament so we could get some training. We stayed in a hotel looking over the lake. The Italian team and the greek team were in the same hotel as us do it was a little bit raudy. Im really good friends with all of the teams but especially with the spanish team because I train with them and see them every weekend when I train in Ventalló.

The starting lists went up on sunday morning, and i had to skii on tuesday afternoon. There were 89 people in the U21 group. So I had some time to chill out until tuesday. My dad has a problem with sight seeing so we spent a whole day driving around Norway on our only day off. Very boring. Lots of mountains. Lots of green.....

On tuesday I skied very well and put out a good score. The day went by and in the end Iqualified second for the finals, I was so happy because I never expected to finish so well or to jump that far and because it is my best ever score in a europeans. The finals were the next day.

On wednesday ,the finals day came, there was a really bad wind so I got a little bit nervios. I was second last up so I could wacht the others before I skied and learn things from them coping with the bad conditions. Everyone was skiing well and the wind got worse and worse, so I got really nervios. I had a really good chance to come third because they two ahead of me are really good. When I skied i jumped far enpugh to get third place, and there was one skied left. Long story short, he came first and i was left in fourth position. I was a little bit upset because I had got my hopes up too much, but my dad told me that I skied really well and that I had three years left in this category, and I felt better, a little.

Cant wait until next europeans in France :(