today i learned to ice skate backwards.

well, kinda. dan had attempted to teach me once a year earlier, and i wasn't very good at it at all. in fact, if he weren't pushing, i couldn't move more than a few inches backwards. we decided to go skating tonight and i was much better this time! i'm still not great, and my feet get out of synch pretty easily, but i was able to pull him around the rink a couple times (a very slow couple of times). i did manage to take one pretty nasty fall, though that was while skating forwards - and now i have some lovely bruised knees to show for it.