Friends on Ice

There's some really lovely people at the rink who I have become good friends with. They are all adult skaters, and some of them have kids who are also skating. Anna is the same age as me and is really sweet; she has been helping me with my three turns and edge work. Xenia is a good skater who learned as a kid, and is now revisiting her passion as an adult. She's got great control and beautiful crossovers. She can also land single jumps. Michelle is the mother of a child skater, and has an elegant grace in her moves that is very inspiring. Pat is still learning and has the distinguished reputation of having dragged her skating teacher down on top of her when she fell once. Georgina is a good buddy who is learning how to skate so she can be an ice hockey player. She has a pair of hockey skates that the guy at the skate shop over-sharpened. She has spent the last week trying to dull the blades on the ice.

It's quite odd in that Georgina as a female has no interest whatsoever in figure skating, yet is excited by the thought of playing ice hockey. And I, as a male, have no interest whatsoever in ice hockey and am thrilled by the thought of figure skating. Talk about going against the grain!