Domingo – 3/9
Festa de Jamaica for someone leaving back to Scotland. See videos. Monday was hard cuz of my foot. Stayed home til 2:30 – well ran around returning and renting the same scooter… then trained with taped up foot and sneakers. Netto (contra-mestre) trained w/ us w. ninho, expatriot now living in Norway w/ wife and bb – a huge adorable guy living up to his name… looks like the mulatto version of bambam… The roda was hard for me cuz of my injuries and pains now. On Jamaica’s urging I bought zak the white capoeira pants and dressed him w/ white shirt. When I was able to drag him away from the Xbox video game (only bcuz his grand theft auto game was over), he got to play in the roda. I’m very lucky cuz the roda is two “stores” down from the xbox place so I can leave zak there while we drum, play and sing and he can come find me when it’s over. Everyone knows him/us now if he needed anything. True to his astrological sign, the first thing he asks when he leaves the roda is " can I play again???"
Training is something else. It’s on Resende beach at 4pm. Just amazing, training capoeira outside in the sea slapping sand shaded by palm trees. It’s one of those absolutely beautiful moments that you unfortunately get used to like the vista in zsuzs’ new house in Inverness CA. on entering the beach today, a woman asked if Z was the capoeirista from last nite and how long he's been training... He's famous!
After the miniscule training I was able to do today, we went back to concha beach to look for zak’s white shirt which was taken by serai do mar earlier this afternoon as it dropped out of my hands and a wave grabbed it up like a hungry dog after a steak. The tide had been so high, it was above the level of the plastic tables. Salo had told me how annoying these tables were and I didn’t notice at the time, but at high tide like this, you cannot walk the beach due to the plastic furniture strewn forward, I suppose to attract customers.
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