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Originally Posted by timun
Skiing wasn't something I was jealous of, but it made young me cognizant of how much less money my parents had than most of my friends'. I never learned to ski; I tried precisely once, when I was 21. People can't reconcile it when I tell them I was born here and my family had been here >100 years. "You're the most Calgarian Calgarian I know, and you DON'T ski?!"
Nope! I don't golf either, never enjoyed it!
I don't know how much I really missed out on; I suppose I'm "paying for it" as an adult, as lots of friends go skiing in the winter and I obviously don't get included.
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Went through the same thing. Grew up in Kelowna, never learned how to ski, didn’t go camping, didn’t have a boat. The only thing is at least learned to swim at a relatively young age without lessons.
Our elementary school even did outings to Big White for a week each winter and almost all of the kids (and teachers) except me and a few others went. I wasn’t too upset at the time because we didn’t have to do anything at the school. We took a stab at skiing in later life, but never really enjoyed it. It was more to get our kids into it so they wouldn’t be too socially awkward later in life.