The Vaujany Experience Part 13…….In My Element

By mid February we had hit half way and instead of talking about how much time we had left on the slopes our thoughts all of a sudden turned to realising we only had 2 full months left. We all of a sudden had that feeling that time was going too quickly and that we didn’t have that much time left. It was like being on a weeks holiday. The best days were always the first 3 days because you felt that you still had the rest of the week ahead of you. But after that thoughts always turn to having to return to normal life and having to pack up and leave. And that is what I found myself thinking about. The day I would have to leave the wonderland that I had found myself in.

I had fallen in love with the lifestyle and I just wanted more and more. I was in my element all of a sudden and I couldn’t bring myself to think about the end because I didn’t want it to. I had this overriding feeling of wanting it to go on forever, to have an endless amount of days to span out in front of me to look forward to…..

And if a jeanie had have appeared into my life during that time and handed me a lantern to wish upon, I would have wished for those days to continue forever…..

As the weeks in February rolled on, I realised I didn’t have a care in the world. I was completely encapsulated within the bubble of Vaujany and my life I had found and created within it. Gliding down a slope on my skies I marvelled at the sight of the Alps around me, the blue skies and life long friends I had made all around me. They were perfect moments. Not a day seemed to go by without one of those moments occurring. I’d stopped worrying about my abilities in my new found role as chef or having to learn how to ski. I could now do it all effortlessly and I was finally carefree and able to enjoy it all.

As I skied the mountain everyday, I came to feel as if I belonged on the mountain, in the grandeur of the Alps and the crisp mountain air. I felt as if it was all meant to be. At last I was living for each day, free as the birds and the clouds that roamed the skies and I had the land of the magnificent French Alps to thank for that.