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interesting couch surfers
Feb. 21st, 2018 10:25 pmThis week has been fun--I am really enjoying getting to host couch surfers whenever I feel for it, and meeting interesting people as a result. This week's couch surfer is a delight. His first letter to me started with "Brace yourself, this message is going to be long...., and after three delightful, information packed paragraphs he ended with "Sorry to talk your ear off but if I am going to request anyone it is because I want to stay with that person and not because I just want a place to stay and I want you to know that. Those dates are totally flexible too. Needless to say, I sent him a very prompt letter back saying that I would love to host him, and I am glad that I did. He arrived last night after I got home from Phire practice (where I talked several of the boys into giving acroyoga a try), and Choir (my first time back since quitting it for the Tuesday evening gymnastic class last winter--the director was so pleased to see me again she greeted me with a hug, and it was much fun). Tim and I stayed up talking till nearly midnight before he went down to the guest room to sleep and I headed to my bed. (since it was so close to midnight I stayed up playing with duolingo till after midnight, so that the app would be pleased that I have maintained my "streak" for so many days.
Then I went to sleep and didn't wake up till about 07:30. It was such a pretty day I wanted to walk in, but I didn't want to have to walk home after parkour in the evening, so I gave Tim my car keys and suggested that he could use it to head into town (as it would be easier to park than the motorhome he arrived in), if he picked me up after parkour.
I am loving the parkour training that Phire has started up on Wednesdays. There were seven of us there tonight. The first exercise he did was to set up a bunch of little wooden boxes about 20 cm tall, and with padded tops, spaced a bit more than a meter apart, then he divided us into two groups, and suggested that we take it in turns to run up to them, jump onto the first, then to the next, and finally to the third before hopping down and going to the back of our group's line. At first my group consisted of Siri, Ellinor, and I. But then Siri and I wanted to move the blocks closer together so that we could do the jumps (I am a fair bit taller than Siri, but I have pretty much never done any jumping), so Ellinor, who is quite a bit taller than I, and used to be a figure skater, so she has powerful legs, went and joined the other group, all of whom have very long legs and no fear of jumping a wide gap (they moved their blocks further apart after the first round). After that we played with a horizontal bar, swinging from it and then jumping off. One of the boys was really good at that one--he says that he used to do that a lot when he was younger. I also, of course, took the time to practice my handstands. They need more work, but I seem to have developed the reputation of being good at them, even though I am not yet standing for more than a few seconds with out a wall to put my toes against, or the tall mat to push my head against.
My exercise log says that I am averaging more than two hours a day of physical activity these days, and it really doesn't feel feel like much. I have friends my age who think that they are old. I am so glad that I am not!
Then I went to sleep and didn't wake up till about 07:30. It was such a pretty day I wanted to walk in, but I didn't want to have to walk home after parkour in the evening, so I gave Tim my car keys and suggested that he could use it to head into town (as it would be easier to park than the motorhome he arrived in), if he picked me up after parkour.
I am loving the parkour training that Phire has started up on Wednesdays. There were seven of us there tonight. The first exercise he did was to set up a bunch of little wooden boxes about 20 cm tall, and with padded tops, spaced a bit more than a meter apart, then he divided us into two groups, and suggested that we take it in turns to run up to them, jump onto the first, then to the next, and finally to the third before hopping down and going to the back of our group's line. At first my group consisted of Siri, Ellinor, and I. But then Siri and I wanted to move the blocks closer together so that we could do the jumps (I am a fair bit taller than Siri, but I have pretty much never done any jumping), so Ellinor, who is quite a bit taller than I, and used to be a figure skater, so she has powerful legs, went and joined the other group, all of whom have very long legs and no fear of jumping a wide gap (they moved their blocks further apart after the first round). After that we played with a horizontal bar, swinging from it and then jumping off. One of the boys was really good at that one--he says that he used to do that a lot when he was younger. I also, of course, took the time to practice my handstands. They need more work, but I seem to have developed the reputation of being good at them, even though I am not yet standing for more than a few seconds with out a wall to put my toes against, or the tall mat to push my head against.
My exercise log says that I am averaging more than two hours a day of physical activity these days, and it really doesn't feel feel like much. I have friends my age who think that they are old. I am so glad that I am not!