Little Update From Colombia

Friday night i went to some person's wedding i didn't know, but it was all good, cause the food was delicious. Apparently Louisiana knows whats up with the seafood. I had some crab cakes, coconut shrimp, and a few crackers.

Saturday for breakfast before i started my drive to ocala, i ate some home made biscuits and a cinnamon roll, which were all pretty good if i may say so. The drive was a little rough because i was too stubborn to stop and eat anything, i wanted to get to Florida as quick as possible. The start of the drive was beyond obnoxious; the traffic had me yelling at people with the utmost aggression (yes i know they cant hear me, but for some reason i felt a lot better after). Once i got into Florida, the traffic was OK, plus it was a 3 lane highway so i was Ricky bobbying my way through those goons. i eventually had to stop to get gas so i picked up some chex mix and a bottle of water, such a nutritious meal. When i got into ocala, some friends wanted me to go out so of course dinner was greasy bar food; chicken tenders, jalapeño poppers, and potato skins- how i haven't had a heart attack yet i don't know.

Sunday morning my dad showed me around the new gym that he's just been made president of; it's a beautiful gym, maybe the nicest one Ive ever been inside. This place has EVERYTHING; tanning, manicures, pedicures, hot tub, a special tub for doing body fat percentages, like 3 aerobics rooms, a sick spin room, a palates room, a kids center, a bar with any kinda health food you could want, tons of exercise equipment... its awesome, needless to say, i will be utilizing it quite frequently while I'm in Florida. Breakfast was ihop- country fried steak, scrambled eggs, pancakes and water. Lunch was nothing because again, i was too stubborn to stop on my drive from ocala to Boca. Dinner was cheesecake factory- nachos and vanilla bean cheesecake with water.

Monday morning i headed to Miami airport to fly here to Colombia to teach a camp in bucaramanga; sounds like a ghetto, its actually a nice little city. Anyway, brunch was McDonald's- quarter pounder with cheese, nuggets, fries, and Dr pepper. That was really all i ate the whole day, which is probably why i felt like garbage when i woke up Tuesday morning; i was congested, neck hurt, i was really dehydrated- you know when your lips are cracked and stuff, yea that was me. Oh, before we went to the house from the airport, they asked if i wanted anything, i said juice, thinking they were going to buy some the next day... WRONG. We went to this drive up juice bar, honked, some chick comes over and takes the order, 2 minutes later she walks back with a glass (yes a glass glass) of the best juice I've had, maybe ever. We then just sat there while i drank my juice, which was slightly awkward haha, and then honked again, she grabbed the glass and we drove off.... ahhh Colombia.

The family that I'm staying with for the clinic is great, very hospitable. They made me eggs with bacon, cereal, fresh fruit all cut up and juice... and it was delicious. In the afternoon i went to a small track here with a team full of little kids and just skated around with them, took some pictures, kissed some babies, you know the day to day... For lunch, they took me to this awesome place that was apparently traditional Colombian food... it was just a bunch of different kinds of meat (no homo). Also, they make this little corn thing called an arepa, soo good with a little bit of pico on top. The night we had a conference where i sat in front of the coaches and skaters of the camp with a translator and just talked about equipment, training, and anything else they could come up with to ask me. For dinner we had some el corral, you white people reading this wont know anything about no el corral, its a burger place in Colombia that just clowns McDonald's or bk or wendys... its kinda like In-N-Out status; I had a doble con queso y tacineta, papas fritas, y nestea limon.

Wednesday was the first day of the clinic, which has been going great. It does kind of concern me however, that they have never seen over 1/2 the drills that I'm teaching here; If they are already as good as they are without really knowing HOW to skate, I'm a little scared to see what could happen when they do. Breakfast was just cereal and fresh fruit with juice. Lunch was fried chicken, i ate it with a plastic glove on (cause thats what they do here... apparently its 'safer' that way haha), coke and juice to drink. Dinner was pizza at a place that overlooked the whole city, it was a really cool experience. My nose was cashed from being in the sun all day long and i can tell I'm out of shape because between each one of the off skates exercises i was dizzy and wanted to fall over.

This morning i woke up early because i had to keep working on the burning the 76 disks for the people at this camp; everyone gets a tee shirt and a disk with the videos of all the drills on it. You don't realize how long it takes to burn 76 Cd's until you actually have to do it by the way. Breakfast was just eggs and bacon with juice. Lunch was fried chicken and arepa again, with coke and lulo juice- lulo is this tangy sour fruit in Colombia, I'm an addict.