I believe that you should always have determination. I feel this way because last year I was in Montana for Spring Break and I was not as good at skiing as my friends Melissa and Anna because the year before I did not go to Montana to go skiing. In Montana it was warm, some of the days and freezing the others. We skied through fresh fallen powder and cold, hard ice. I was really upset because I had never done a black diamond, or the hardest run, before, and they did 35 of them last year. One of my best friends was there. She told me that I could do it if I tried my hardest I can never fail. I took that into consideration as I was skiing. Even though I fell more then they did, I tried as hard as I could to make it down the hills. During the week we kept doing even more black diamonds. I kept thinking about what Melissa said “if you try your hardest you can never fail”. At the end of the trip me and Anna knew that what Melissa said was true because we had done 40 black diamonds and pushed ourselves to ski in blizzards and freezing cold weather. We went to the top of Lone Peak which is 11,166 feet and I skied off it! I love these words because they are true because if you try your hardest and do the best you can do you can never fail. When I think back to that week I was happy and excited to go skiing but also nervous to do the black diamonds. I remember Melissa giving me a note the day before we left telling me that I would HAVE to do at least 1 black diamond with her, Anna, Mr. C, Mr. K, and my dad before we left Montana. It was a good experience for me because I got to do things that I would never had done if it was not for Melissa and Anna. And also I had to learn to work through pain and push myself to do all the black diamonds with the rest of the group.