on the very last jump built in the ski jump, in the dusk, barely recognisable. Then down through the deep snow into the warmly lit warehouse. Such a romantic Look, when talking over the ski. Especially since the Numbers are sobering enough.
The number of winter camps decreased between 2009 and 2014, from 2700 to 2000. Since then, the number has stagnated, but a new danger threatens. Teachers do not want to take the liability, increasingly, on – to suit joyfully certain parents. And many of the children from low-income families to Ski. A school of the parents is allowed to make only a maximum of 80 Swiss francs for a camp week, as the Federal court two years ago has decided. However, in order to arrival, 5-day is no longer covered ski pass, accommodation, meals and the Salaries of the teachers today. And for extra costs, most schools don’t like.
This is understandable, but a pity. Because the camp is not just any camp, but a Swiss Institution. Not only because of the mountains and of the national sports. The winter camp is what is in America the Summer Camp: a first excursion into the wild of the emerging youth. Without parents, without a class teacher. For the participants – whether pupils in primary education stage just before puberty, or high school students before adolescence – is the ski camp so it is also a place of identity. Who is the group feeling hated, it will not go as an adult in a different, and who crept back to the other sex, is already suffering in the camp until today, hardly any shyness.
A Gemsch game with long-term consequences
As a fifth-grader without classmates to ski camp to Adelboden? Not a Problem for me, finally, I was used as a Wölfli camp. But I had reckoned without the girl. Although there was in the school girl, but here, you slept right next door, in the glorious ‘ 80s-Glamour: with tights and Wool cuffs around the calves. The wood walls are incised with the names of loving couples gave a boost to the prepubescent feelings. When they met after curfew on a game of Gemsch in the shock – that card game, where the game partner to communicate by secret signs.
My partner was a year older than I, then a worlds, actually, she was already a woman. We were an unbeatable Duo. Our Codes were refined, we would wink at each other, the fingers inconspicuous on certain parts of the body. And so it was that I fell in love for the smell of wet, sweaty ski socks on electro-Öfeli for the first Time. The next day, a pillow dance on the program. Your favor for sure, and knelt I front of her and flashed. How unfair! She had forgotten me already. I think 35 years later still.
Philippe doubt
Stemmchrigi and Christiania
My first ski camp, the mass bearing on the Stoos, the third primary school, for the first time away from mommy. I feel very confident in front of self-confidence. The father has scraped my Autier-Holzski with a shard of glass and with red Toko-Skigliss re-painted. The Stemmchrigi I speak also, but only to the right. Left on garden hills at home a Bush. Christiania is the stem turn for experts.
The ski – in 1960, the was have, especially condition. Skiing is only Tännlen: in the V-step high to clamber up. The first event – and the most important – is the ancestors. Two arc on the left, two on the right, then soft as butter the bottom of the wave. I got it in the first group, which to me is ten times more important than all the sixes in the testimony. After a week of Tännlen and skins we can use on Friday afternoon for the first time in the ski lift. Now comes the biggest Flop of my life: I sit at the bar lift and out-fly ignominiously.
Ruedi Baumann
A class at the Zurich Central station on the way to the ski camp in the early 70s.
A total Disaster for the Ego
ski storage are not can go to hell, if you either apply a) in General as weird, b) is for the guys non-existent, or c) Only in a Thun sec-class skiing. I was a, b, and c. unfortunately, I couldn’t pinch because ski were back in the 1980s, is mandatory. For me and my Ego, it was therefore: eyes to and through. During the day, I had to practice alone with our felt 80-year-old class teacher on the children’s slopes, the stem turn, which made my Image even when the class Nerd into a bottomless sink. In addition, the lift froze me on the Ironing regularly, the feet, because the borrowed boots were not only terribly ugly, but also much too small.
worst of all were the nightly slow dance round, including make-out orgies. None of us wanted to put his arms around my waist, let alone my tongue in the mouth. I remember I thought: If this is now the age of puberty, then I’m at best up to 20 dead.
Lucie Machac
Ten stoned dwarfs
We had agreed in the boys blow quickly. The yogurt with the pot should make our last night in the last Gymi-ski before the age of majority, a little more colorful. The Jögi was overdosed – a classic beginner’s mistake – totally and led to a memorable confusion of night, in a crystal-clear Engelberger night. In this state, we believed that the staging of a self-written theater piece was a good idea. It should go to ten little dwarfs, who in a mysterious way have been decimated.
The curtain went up. And we delivered the Show of our lives. After the last of the dwarfs, represented by the best snowboarders in the class, the stage in the common room was crawling left, it remained in the first row seated the bearing cable. No one applauded. On their faces, an inner was reflected in dispute: Was that a piss take or already art? The teachers decided finally, for the Latter, applauded, somewhat reluctantly, and went over silently to the next program point of the colourful Evening, the guitar playing from the kitchen.
Yann Cherix
Even the teachers had ideas
the teacher had held The camp in Lungern-Schönbüel, and from today’s perspective, dumbest idea. Already on the first day it was, as the drawing teachers, or it was the Biolehrerin? – before the last descent, according to the “attack!” shouted, and it is easy to let. Prior to that, he had or to the students, who were still a little shaky on skis, good stem turn. And now this: in the squat and in a Schnutz off. Of course, the wards made it. One after the other shouted “attack!” and ran down the mountain.
From then on, the last departure was at any Skilagertag to the adventure. Who was already down, fired colleagues. Who was still at the top, and poured out adrenaline. There were acrobatics, terror, screams, cheers. But no bad falls – the guardian angel yesteryear had a sense of Cockiness. At the end of beginner and Intermediate goods are equal – all of them had wobbly legs. Also learning for life, namely, that teachers are just people who sometimes have ideas in my head.
Helene Arnet
runway scene with the race to the year 1973, in St. Moritz.
courtship battle for the beautiful Aurel
The Name is Aurel, a little name, a customer should be allowed, is of Latin origin and means “made of Gold”. Very suitable. Like a heaven-sent beings Aurel, the head of the camp of the N5b in Mürren appeared to us. He was very Mature, already 22, he looked good, and logo, he was a Top Snowboarder. In any case, we were all very in love with Aurelius, and I have to say that in our Neusprachler-Gymi-class is a massive estrogen surplus prevailed: 2-boys, 18 girls came. Good Times for Aurel. We laughed hysterically at his jokes, the same amount of people on the ski lift next to him. Today we would say: The Ladies fight for Bachelor. Our envy was boundless, as one of us, we’ll call you. m., on the slopes of the foot verknackste, and in Aurelius’s arms landed, the – Gentleman – wore down the mountain and so to the single-Date helped. The best conditions for the night of the roses, so the final evening, my I, of course. M. but then got no Rose. It was her colleague, the rumkriegte Aurel after the camp.
Tina Huber
deep-snow mountain as a penal action
45 years Ago in Splügen: All 5.- and 6.-Graders were in the camp, Koller and Keller (name changed), our teachers. In the reminder of the conclusion of the evening, ran out of the rudder remained. Due to noise, we were warned already at dinner. However, this has prompted us boys. In the geography game, the first because of the illicit three crying into the room. I thought that was unfair, and ACE in the following game, not the Apple from the pool of water, but emptied it by äxgüsi from what was also a place of reference. Later, at the top of the room, Kaspar, Felix, Schmidli and Matt were so down in the common room, almost only the girls were left. Of course, it has not been complied with in the boys blow the night’s rest, what the teacher unnerved finally: The evening ended outside, where we were chased in the deep snow up the slope. This reduced our energy reserves so far, that’s helped by the cut and Keller, and Koller were able to drink their well-earned celebration evening-Schnäpsli.
Daniel Schneebeli
Created: 31.01.2019, 17:47 PM
