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Alysa Liu kept busy during the two years she was retired from figure skating: "I did a lot!" The Olympian got her driver’s license, learned to ski, and even trekked to base camp at Mount Everest.

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00:00You were retired for two years. What'd you do? I did a lot. You know, two years is such a
00:05little
00:05time. Like, I got my driver's license, so I was more free. I could do, like, go wherever I wanted,
00:11hang out with my friends whenever, take my siblings out. So that helped me feel like my
00:16own person. I went on vacation for the first time, family vacation, with my best friend's family,
00:22and we were just at the beach for a week. I was swimming a ton. My best friend's mom
00:28used to, like, live in Nepal, and so she has connections with a ton of the Sherpas. She
00:33knows them, and so the Sherpas took us to trek in the Himalayas for, like, a couple weeks. That was
00:39really fun. I went skiing for the first time. You went to Everest Base Camp. You made it. Yeah,
00:44we trekked to the Everest Base Camp. Very cool. And then we trekked back down. It was really cool.
00:49And then, yeah, like, shout out Pemba. Shout out Surin. Those are our Sherpas. I went to school.
00:56I started UCLA. I did my first year, and then I started my second. By the time I started my
01:01second,
01:01I was already, like, coming back to skating. But I did take a, I took a whole gap year off
01:05after I
01:06quit. So I didn't do school for a year. I just hung out with my friends. That's all I did.
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