Racki was working a lot in the hotel and so I had a lot of time.
My main activities: snowboarding, making music and hanging around with Racki in the hotel.
After a couple of days my snowboarding improved rapidly and soon I was discovering the whole mountain and all the tracks and off track areas.
Especially riding in the fresh deep snow in the morning was awesome! It was so awesome to go up with the lift and see all the untouched snow and minutes later to ride on and through it.
After some more practice, I started to do little jumps and riding fakie which was a whole new world to me.
When Racki had nothing to do in the hotel, we rode together and it was absolutely awesome!
After a couple of days in her new job in a small hotel in Gudauri Racki’s bosses offered us to move from Rosinante in a special apartment. For free.
The apartment was used mainly as a storage room. The owner had started to renovate it, ran out of money and so it was only partly renovated. There was no proper floor and because there was a lot of concrete dust, I put cardboard walls on the whole floor. That’s the reason why we called it the Pappartment. “Pappe” is a German word for these cardboard walls. We cleaned and reorganized a lot and then the place got our living space.
In a separate room with glass walls Racki and I established our small living space and after some work on the electric wires etc. we had light and electricity.
And after some installations in the bathroom we had a shower, a toilet with manual bucket-flush, and a shelf.
It was a very different way to live like that but it was very warm and for free. And we had a balcony pointing directly to all the lifts. So we could always check how the weather was and which lifts were running.
Directly under our Pappartment was a rock bar: Old Monkey. We had a lot of fun there but at some point we got a bit crazy about the loud music they were playing mostly every night. And the craziest thing about that was that the same songs got repeated over and over again. I guess for the ordinary guests that was no issue because most of them stay just a couple of days, but we stayed for months and so we developed a serious aversion to Queen songs.
