I am writing this letter in response to the suspension of my financial aid due to my academic performance for winter quarter 2003. I would like to explain why it is that I failed to meet the credit requirement. On February fifth two- thousand three, I was involved in a snowboarding accident. I suffered a concussion from this accident. I am not sure if you are familiar with snowboarding but I will try to explain exactly what happened. I was night skiing at Snoqualmie West. The park there is a little steeper than I am used to. Nonetheless I decided to try and ride the fun box. A fun box is much like a rail, but with more of a surface area. The landing off of the fun box turned out to be a lot bigger than I had thought. I ended up losing balance at the end of the fun b
ox. I launched off of the fun box with my body parallel to the ground. I am not sure how far I fell but I knew that I was in trouble. Luckily my head broke my fall. That pretty much ended my snowboarding for that night. I went to Kittitas Community Hospital the next day.