Lessons learned from yesterday:
1. Planning things is exhausting! We had a big group go surfing- 18 people total. Trying to arrange everything with the people going and the people at the surf place gets chaotic and confusing. I now have a lot more respect for people studying hospitality. They have to multitask so well, and I'm amazed they all don't go crazy.
2. It's a lot easier to get into cold water when you a. have on a wetsuit and b. are actually going to do something in the water. I don't think I've ever walked into 57.2 degree (Fahrenheit!) water so readily.
3. I originally thought that the most difficult part of getting up would be doing the quasi-pushup, but nope. After you push yourself up halfway, you need to bring both your feet underneath you and stand up. It's basically like doing the second half of a burpee, and for all of you who have had to do burpees before (hello, rowers), you know that the first five or eight aren't that bad. Then they become unbearable. Thankfully, the possibility of riding a wave made me more excited to squat over and over, but it still got to be way difficult. We surfed for about 3, 3.5 hours yesterday and I could feel the burn after the first 30 minutes.
4. It's so exciting to catch a wave and ride it to the beach. But as you do that more and more, it gets less and less fun because then you realise you have to walk back 50 meters against the waves. And after doing all those pushups and squats, the water starts to feel really, really strong.
5. Drinking saltwater is inevitable. At least for the girls (or maybe this is just for me), you would hear lots of "Whoo!"s singaling someone was able to stand up successfully. But sometimes you would hear a "Whoo-ahh!-splash," and that was more of a sign that someone had just gotten their weekly intake of sodium. Newsflash- salt water is disgusting.
6. Oh, and surfing. I did learn how to surf yesterday. Can't wait to try it again, either!
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