I'm pretty sure my asthma is due to the zamboni fume/high CO rink I pretty much grew up in. (And it was worsened by the inner city school I taught in for a year that was infested with mold...I was sick all the time.) I also once had a rotted celing tile almost fall on me, luckily my spin traveled and I just missed it. The one time a traveling spin was a good thing!

My rink in grad school always had flies getting stuck to the ice, it was gross. (A few people skate @ Tennity at SU, does it still have the fly problem?) At least that was probably the cleanest rink I've ever been in otherwise.

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2010-2011 goals:
Pass Junior MIF test
Don't break anything

hahahahahah! YES!! But, it's a nice rink....not dank and dingy and if you are REALLY nice to the staff they will make sure the ice is amazing for the figure skaters ((plus they offered to let me come in before they open at 6am to practice if I need to!!))

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Skating Dreams

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." --Nike

Birds got in a couple of rinks where I used to skate. There was bird doo on the ice. A squirrel got in once too and he ran across the ice. I've also seen blood on the ice and spit. Some of my very young students want to eat the snow they make in a snowplow stop. I try to keep them from eating it. But they always try it once. Yuck.

Kay

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