My third day in Queenstown, and I'm finally doing an adrenalin activity, snowboarding. I suspected I would be in for a difficult time when the board hire person asked if I had ever skateboarded or surfed before, and I answered "no." My fears were confirmed as I proceeded to fall on my ass repeatedly. And my knees. And my hands, which your not supposed to do. It turns out that boarding is pretty hard. Well, not for the rest of my class, who quickly learned to execute turns. And not just one, but multiple zig-zag turns. The best I could do was to start going right, turn the board straight down the slope, turn slightly to the left, then fall on my ass. I'm a bit worried, since tomorrow I have an intermediate lesson. My instructor kept trying to sell me individual lessons.