Ski Trip
Ski trip is a once in a lifetime experience offered to the year 12 students of JSR. Students spend a week away with their fellow high school graduates after gruelling first semester exams. The students drive through the beautiful Melbourne Mountains encrusted with snow which is an experience most of the students have never had before. The excitement grows as the students pick up their high quality skiing and snowboarding gear and head towards the warm inviting lodge they would spend the next 6 days living in. The personal chef serves up delicious food for breakfast, lunch and dinner before the start of each new day sees each student up early ready to hit the slopes. Following 6 days of snow it’s back to Melbourne for shopping and an AFL football game before heading back to Perth.
“The feeling of the sun on your back while standing in the snow left people out in the snow for hours on end until nightfall called. One amazing night we got to enjoy night skiing/boarding under the lights of the “big D”. With massive improvements in skill we headed off day after day to better our skills on more advanced slopes and competing with each other on skill and speed. The local shops had an unlimited supply of hot chocolate and marshmallows that left our comfy dorm rooms empty the duration of the day. Leaving the ski slopes was something no one looked forward to. That all changed with the intense Melbourne shopping at night and a beautiful inner city hotel. Shopping in the morning was then cut short by an amazing AFL game at the heart of football at Melbourne’s indescribable MCG. We all got on the plane home a tighter year group with untold bonds and memories made that will never be forgotten. The opportunity won’t ever come again to experience something like that with such a large group of friends. A perfect finish to our final year of schooling!”
Monique Briard and Stephanie Hoare
Graduating class of 2010