From Aunt Kelly
Hi Scotty! Miss you lots. Went camping with your family to Penticton - had fun, but missed Mikey and his boat by a couple of days. Did you know that your sister has a brand new car?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Just thought I'd make sure some nice person let you know! Erin is starting school on tuesday! Can you believe it? Time has FLOWN! The girls say "hi"? Well, honestly, Claire says "Scott who?" LOL. Take care - enjoy your vacation!
Love,
Kel
Response: New CAR?! I kind of figured that might happen. Hope you, Dan and the girls had a great summer! I need you to send me an address so I can send a postcard! Enjoy the fall and tell erin and hannah good luck at school from me, tell claire hi too!
Love Scott
From Anna
Hey Buddy,
Hope all went well at the job fair and that we end up with instructors that can really ski this winter! I helped interview for the head coach position last week - things still are not totally resolved there. We had a great time sea kayaking a few weeks ago and a dolphin jumped right in front of Cooper and my boat (kind of scary at first). Hope that your alignment issues have been fixed. Take care, Anna
Response: Hi Anna,
The job fairs went really well. I only hired 2 skiers and they seemed pretty confident. I can understand a little better now why we ended up with what we did last year... I'll explain when I get home!
I keep talking to Jeff Books about the whole head coach situation and a possible plan to work together and I'm more and more sold on it. He says he'll train with us this coming winter too - we'll be going really fast!
Glad to hear the vacation was good. I'm definetly getting ready for some time at the beach after this trip is done! My alignment is pretty much consolidated now and I'm back to working on impulse! : )
Talk to you soon,
Scott
From Mom
Hi Scott,
We're in Russia today! It's practically snowing here! Weather is cool and damp. Went to the Hermitage. Off to Finland, Sweden and Denmark tomorrow night. Home next weekend. Can't believe its half over. Sounds like you're doing ok. Talk to when I get home. Love Mom
Response: Glad to hear that it's been a good time. You're seeing a lot of cool places. I'm working with a bunch of swedish instructors - maybe I'll have a bit of new language by the time I get home!
From Meaghan
Hey Scott!
Just thought I'd let you know I'm back from Germany! I didn't get to go to the Hofbrauhaus for you, though :( A couple people have asked me for an address for you down there. Hope you are having fun! Talk to you later! Meaghan
Response: Hi Meaghan,
I hope that tour and stampede were a lot of fun. Too bad on the hofbrauhaus - did anyone get there?, because it is awesome! I'm sure you saw a lot of other cool things in Germany too.
My email address is scottbailey@shaw.ca and my mailing address is
C/O Mount Hotham Ski School
Mount Hotham Skiing Company
PO Box 140
Bright, Vic 3741
Australia
And my new mobile number is 0439 753 543
Feel free to pass it all on!
Scott
From Steve
Hey Scotty,
Glad to hear everything is going good so far. Hope you get yourself into too much trouble with those ozzies... You don't have the buddy system to rely on this time!
Missed you during Stampede week!
Steve
Response: Canada One!
We've worked out some sort of a buddy system around here and there's a bus that runs from the bars back to where I live - no trains to miss!
Hope you had a great stampede.
Scott
From Carly
Hey Scotty too Hottie
It's strange it's snowing where you are. Stampede Week was busy, and the Outriders were in top drunken form as usual. My least favorite theme day was frisky Friday.....
I am SO happy the band has gone on tour, and the office is very quiet. This is leaving me lots of time to find my real job ;).
Take care, and don't get in TOO much trouble....
XO
CARLY
Response: I wish it was snowing more where I am! Glad to hear that Stampede was good and I hope you enjoy your quiet time in the office - good luck with the job hunting : )
From Tracey
Hi Scott!
It sounds like you're having a great time! I can't wait to see all your pictures and hear all your stories!
have a good one!
trace.
Response: Hi Tracey! I hope you're having a good summer. I will get some pictures on here eventually...
From Ryan
Hey Scott,
Stampede was a blast... went by super quick though. We have some tentative dates for a Germany trip next year (Feb 16-25). Now there is a great reason for you to come back! Hope you're having a blast!
Later,
Ryan
Response: I hope you drank lots for me (not that I'm not drinking lots here...). Where are we going in Germany? Sounds like it will be awesome : ) I haven't offended the Swedish instructors here... yet!
From Mom
Hi Scott,
Met lots of people from Aus & NZ when I was selling programs yesterday. Stay away from Brisbane! Some told me once you've been there you'll never want to come back!!!
Love Mom
Response: If I'm going to visit Doug, I'll have to go to Brisbane... With the rain the last couple of days, the beach sounds pretty nice right now!
From Anna
Hey Buddy,
I sent you a long e-mail. Sounds like things are going great. I can't wait for you to come home and show us all how great you are skiing. Afetr all this coaching you'll be setting a mean race couse and Walter S. will have to keep his mouth shut! Ski fast, be good and have fun! Anna
Response: I'm going to try to set a skier-cross course tomorrow morning... so that should be interesting! Had a great training session this week with the Tech Director here - Chris Simm from Mike Wiegle's - really nice guy and great skier. He thought I was skiing too square, so I'm still working on that alignment! Can't wait to do some video...
Hope you, Scott and the kids are having a great summer! - Scott
From Kelly
Hi Scottie!
So, how is life at "Hotham?" Do they serve hot ham? Do the kids have really strong accents? You're missing a very hot stampede right now! The theme this year for conklin is "family guy". Me and Mikey have been trying to win a big Brian dog. Wish us luck. Later!
Kel
Response: Hey Kelly,
Definetly feeling a little homesick every time I think about the stampede, but still having a great time. Lots of Canadian bacon at breakfast, but so far no hot ham. Good luck with the family guy hunting!
Scott
From Carole Wilshire
Hey Scott!
Glad you arrived in Oz okay. Neat web page! Your Mom gave me the link. Where is Mount HotHam? Send pictures!
Have a great time!
Love Carole
Response: Hi Carole,
Thanks for the message! Mount Hotham is about a 5 hour drive NW of Melbourne. Right now we are the only place as far as I can see that has snow (the village is right on top of the mountain), hopefully we'll get more soon!
Take Care, Love
Scott
From Mom
Hi Scott,
Sounds like you are having a great time. Let me know if you are getting these messages! Just need to ask - do you have everything you need?
Love Mom
Response: Yes I am getting these messages. Everything is going well. I have a day off on Monday (haven't really had one yet) and I will head down into town to pick up the last few things that I need... like a bank card!
From Sam
hey Scotty,
BOA was great and a lot of people say Hi and that they missed you.
I am glad to see that you are teaching again.... you are good at it. Enjoy
Response: Glad to hear that camp was great - I was thinking about you and the team! I've been teaching almost non-stop for the last week, I love it!
Have a great Stampede for me!
From Mom
Hello,
Glad to hear you arrived! Were you able to get a refund for the bus? Send us some pictures of staff acommodation! Can't wait to hear all about everything!
Love Mom
Response: Everything is great so far. Didn't get a refund, but I will take it up with my travel insurance a little later. They did let me travel for free the next day though. So all in all, only $100 extra. Thanks for the messages, I will send pictures when I can get on a computer that lets me!
Love Scott
From Jared
I hope your flight goes/went well and that you settle in nicely. Have a great time!
Response: Thanks Jared. Have a great summer! See you in the fall.
From Ryan
My bet is on Scott coming back married! Dean and Paul are thinking the same thing too. Have a blast, Scott, and we'll sure to keep in touch!
Later Skanko.
Response: Happy Birthday! hope you and Jen have had (or are still having?) a great honeymoon