I got to go to capoeira yesterday!! I was a little worried about getting lost in a foreign country when I still don't have a phone, so I emailed the group here and asked if there would be anyone coming from nearby who I could ride my bike with, but one of the students offered to pick me up and drive me instead which was great since it's always so cold here! The students were really friendly and the teacher was pretty good. He said I'm welcome to come back any time. Unfortunately, they only have classes on T/Th, and those are the nights we almost always have filled with social activities for the exchange students, but I'm definitely going to try to make it to class whenever I can. I miss CBP though! I was really out of breath, but more because of the cold then because the class was that hard.
Today, we went to the Sports Center for the first time. It's REALLY close to my apartment, so I'll probably be there all the time! We started the night with basically a brief cardio class, and it was pretty funny watching everyone, but I'm sure I looked just as silly. Then we got to play some traditional Dutch games which were hilarious. For the first one, there was a giant circular material that all 8 of us in my group had to stand inside so we were standing on the bottom of it and holding the top over our heads kind of like we were in a hamster wheel. Then we had to walk in it together which was actually a lot harder then it sounds. The next one was like a potato sack race, but with 2 people per sack, and the last one I did was basically a three legged race, but instead of tying people's feet together, we were wearing wooden clogs and the inside ones were glued to a board so you had to move in unison. Unfortunately, when I went to get a drink, I missed what was probably the best game of them all - nail pooping. Apparently, it's where you tie a string around your waist with a nail hanging from the back, and stand over a bottle. Then you try to squat down and lower the nail into the bottle, and apparently it's really difficult but even more hilarious.
They had a few sport clubs represented, so I talked to the guy in charge of field hockey about joining a team, but a little while later, I found out that they're starting an ice hockey club too!! It's being started by a couple girls who have only played since October, and they don't really have any equipment yet other then sticks and rental skates, so theyre mostly just skating around passing pucks, but I'm excited to join in and maybe actually teach them something! There's also a jiu jitsu class that I want to try, and gymnastics wasn't represented there, but the pamphlet they gave us says they have a club, so I'm going to try that too!
Other then that, not too much has happened. We registered for classes, and some of mine conflict somtimes, so I need to figure out if there's anything I can do about that, but apparently that just happens here sometimes, and you just need to pick one to go to and skip the other. And right now, my only Friday class is the Dutch for International Students class which is optional, so I might drop it because that would restrict me to traveling only on Sat/Sun instead of being able to leave Thursday night and get back Sunday night.
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