Post-Christmas post

I hope everyone of you had a beautiful Christmas I enjoyed those days, not having to work and sharing some time with friends and family. I received many lovely gifts for Christmas, but there is one that is so lovey I do have to mention it here. You can see it on the photo on the left, it is a chess set made out of chocolate, given to me by my brother. I never saw something like that and was amazed. As some of you might know, I am quite addicted to chess and to chocolate, too. I will not eat any of the figures until a special occasion, which will be on January 19, when playing my first official tournament. I should eat the queen then to boost my playing performance.

Ice skating

Weeks ago I bought myself new skates to be able to do some ice skating this season. Today was the day I actually tried them out and it went better than I expected, although I got kind of injured.

I easily managed to pay the entrance fee, put on the skates and got on the ice. After stumbling around for a while, me, hopeless young figure skating star entered the scene. When trying to skate a curve, I fell down on my back. Quite surprised, but not hurt, I got up again and continued. Later, I cut my finger when trying to get some ice off my skates. I nearly cut all fingers of my right hand and it was bleeding like crazy. Some nice people got me something for my fingers. After one hour I left the ice to go home.

Surprisingly I did better than I expected. After not skating for about five years (actually I started at the age of nine), I quickly regained confidence and it is so much fun. I will go there again tomorrow I hope.