I have a fairly smallfamily, actually, including me there are

only four people in my family and we love spending time all

together somewhere in the countryside. For example, in winter

 the first choice for our familyis a ski holiday in the mountains.

This time we decided to go to Arkhyz, which is three hours' drive

 from my home town to have a greattime. There we could enjoy

 skiing activities, good food andrelaxation. By the way,

 it wasn't the first time we hadbeen there. You know, my dad

and I have been skiers for about 5 years,  but my younger brother

 can't ski well because he hasonly been a skier for two years.

As for my Mum, she can't ski at all, although this time she felt like

learning how to skibut the problem was that she was very afraid of

getting injured onan ice slope. Actually, she thinks that skiing is a

 very high risk outdoor activity. But finallyshe made up her mind

to give it a trywith a qualified ski instructor, called Tatyana,

that proved to be avery experienced instructor. She

showed my Mum someelementary skills for complete beginners

 like turning, standing with your feet pointedinward, stopping,

getting up after afall and getting started moving again. I wondered

how she had managedto teach my Mum most of these skills in no

time, for onlyabout half an hour and after that she went down

the hill withouther guiding. Now I can say that almost all of us

are good atskiing.