This Saturday I went skiing for the second time (I went the Sunday before then, too). I snowboarded last year, so I thought I would try something new this year, since I hadn't done either before coming to Japan. Skiing seems easier to me than snowboarding, but it might just be that learning one when you know the other makes things easier. I was able to turn and stop one the first day (snowboarding took three days to get good at it). On Saturday we left the bunny slope and tried a slightly higher difficulty slope without much difficulty. We want to go to Nagano sometime later to ski there. It should be a lot of fun.