Yay for Helen!

Publicado por Janine

Well, surfing was aweeeeeeeeeeesome. A LOT of fun, thats for sure. Beth and I got to the beach, climbed into cold wetsuits (which i guess was a good thing because it was a really hot day - good for the water!), and went into the water with about 20 others. Only her, me and a Dutch guy hadn´t surfed before and so we had our own tutor. We had long boards, and at first we just got told to try. So i´d lie on my board, paddle, and then once i´d caught the wave you´re meant to then stand up. amazingly, surprising, gobsmackingly, i was able to stand up pretty quickly. There were some people in that group that had been trying for days and still couldn´t, so i feel pretty good!!

one of the (not so good) times i stood up, i then missed my footing, slipped, and fell on my back on my board with my head facing the shore. i then continued to ride the wave on my back while still on the board!!! that was really really funny. jaron and katherine were with the other 17 people, and they were doing really well also, and beth managed near the end to nearly get the hang of it.

i´m definately going to buy a water proof camera to take to tomorrows lesson... although the weather has turned a little miserable...

didn´t go to rugby practice, jackie who i´d be doing it with was sick so i guess i´m going tomorrow :) (jackie plays rugby in the states). had drinking games at home instead - very cool because for the most part they were in spanish with Eva´s friends (my roommate). this was a cool night, we drank then headed to momo where we met up with many morepeople. very good times. even met an aussie that i could hassle!! yay!!!

on saturday a lot of people went to Gernika, but because i didn´t know about this USAC trip i coudln´t go. i would have gone but you had to sign your name up and noone told me about it :( read some more of harry potter 6 in spanish, went to linday´s place who was sick and missing out on the trip and watched a movie, then walked for 2 hours just listening to music and chilling out.

for the past 24 hours apart from sleeping i´ve been eating and reading harry potter. good stuff. just finished it which is the only reason i´m on the interent :) time to do homework now though. this week looks to be uneventful, apart from rugby and surfing. i hope the weather improves!!