My weekends start on Friday since I have no classes. I was supposed to meet up with Beija Flor on Friday at 2:30 in the Tilburg Central Train Station, so I rode my bike over there only to realize that I had forgotten my phone. After spending about 15 minutes looking for her unsuccessfully, I decided to turn around and go back home. I called her, and she was still there, so I turned back around and went to the train station. We had lunch in the city center and talked for a couple hours. It was nice to meet her after hearing so much about her. When we had lunch, I had some kind of cheese sandwich, and now I understand why Europeans are so obsessed with cheese, it was the best cheese I've ever eaten in my life! I know that sounds stupid, but I've never liked cheese that much before, and it was amazing!!! By the time I got home, I had ridden about 6miles (from 2 round trip rides to the train station), and my legs were so sore.
On Saturday, Rocha, a guy who trained with Maculele in Atlanta before moving to Eindhoven (a city about a half hour from Tilburg) picked me up, and we went to his gym to train together. When we were walking to the aerobics room where we were going to train, we heard someone ask us in Portuguese if we play capoeira. Turned out, it was a capoeira teacher and one of his friends who also trains. They ended up joining us and after we all practiced for about an hour, they invited us to train at their academy whenever we wanted. Then we walked around Eindhoven for a while. I like the architecture, everything doesn't look as industrialized and franchised as it does in America. I wanted to take some pictures, but it was too cold. Then we got lunch in some eclectic little restaurant. They gave us 4 open faced sandwiches that we split. Two were cheese (delicious again), one was ham, and one was deer (or as Morris likes to say, I ate bambi...). Deer was actually surprisingly good.
Today, I went to Culemborg with some of the capoeira people for an acrobatics workshop. Apparently there's nothing exciting to see in Culemborg. The workshop was pretty fun. I did a roundoff backhandspring on my left side for the first time in my life (probably because its the first time I've ever tried it), and I actually did a decent set on a roundoff backtuck which NEVER happens. And since the workshop was in a gymnastics gym, I got to play around on bars and beam for the first time in years. Also, I met a few more people and got invited to train in a few more cities. :)
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