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Welcome back! It's been a long, slow summer which has actually flown by. Not much to report from my time. I worked hundred hour weeks in the Watch House Cafe and didn't do much else. Actually that's a lie; in my (very little) free time I helped to build a bouldering centre and got back into climbing, and I took up gig rowing out on the ocean - even got invited to join the racing squad!

The build in process.

The finished place, Rockburn

Rowing out along the Jurrasic Coast.

I won't be joining the racing squad just yet because I've gone and done it again...

I've got a job in the Alps working as a Resort Host for a ski resort!!

I will be working at a resort called Reberty 2000 in Les Trois Vallees - or The Three Valleys to us English speakers. So called '2000' because it is 2000m above sea level with 180 ski lifts taking you to a top height of 3230m over 600km of slopes. So quite a big area =] One of the biggest in the world in fact.

I'll be working for British based company Ski Famille who specialise in holidays for families with young children. There's a big childcare team as well as ski school so the kids are looked after while mum and dad hit the slopes.

Check out their website at Ski Famille to find out about them and see some incredible pictures.

Did I mention the chalets yet? Huge, gorgeous wooden cabin style chalets sleeping between 11 and 17 guests. With their own team of chalet and childcare staff they also have their own chef! Not to mention the en suites, spas, hot tubs, sauna and heated boot rooms… All located in a resort village where you can ski off the slopes and up to the front door.

My job will be to meet and return guests to the airport, arrange ski hire, lift passes, ski school, settle them into their chalets and make sure everything runs fluidly throughout the week. And shovelling snow, taking kids to ski school, dressing up as the company mascot Monty the Marmot (and probably an elf over Christmas), and  running to the store to pick up potatoes (apparently they always run out of potatoes!). I'm the go-to girl if anything needs doing, and the jump in if anyone is sick/injured etc.

And it goes without saying that I'll be testing out all 600km of slopes, the 4km toboggan run, Speed Mountain the longest luge in the Alps, the race courses, the air pillows in the fun parks and maybe even the pool in the village…

It's going to be a bit different from my last two winters spent on the beach in Australia!

Tune in to see how it all goes. And to see some photos to make you very jealous, I know you all like to see them =]