Surfing Competition

*sigh* This will be me someday

Last Saturday Baler hosted a surfing competition– I guess it is one of the biggest in the Philippines, because in case you haven't heard– I live in the surfing capital of the Philippines. There were so many people bobbing up and down in the water, I immediately thought of penguins. Watching the competitors gave me a new drive to learn how to surf because everyone, especially the girls, looked so baller "shredding the liquid gnar." I am slowly getting there– I am still a regular passenger on the struggle bus but every time I have a lesson I make progress. My second lesson I had a different instructor and I was doing so poorly that the first instructor I had came out and helped too. Yup, I got two instructors for the price of one. I am making friends with the instructors though. I think they all find it really funny that a) I am such a terrible surfer and b) that I am so determined to learn. Last time I went to the beach they invited me to play chess with them, so I sat around in their surfing shack for an hour and played chess for the first time in ten years. I was also bad at that. Jeez, they must think I am bad at everything!

in my new element

RJ– one of my fabulous housemates!