Surf lessons from Tarzan in Choroni

Friday, April 16, 2010

Surfs up dude!


We weren't lying about taking surf lessons from Tarzan. It worked out perfect because 6 of us in our group wanted to do it and so he took us out in pairs! It was so much fun!! We first practiced standing up in the sand first to figure out how we were going to place our feet on the board. Then we hit the water with our boards! It was harder than it looked, but I ended up getting the hang of it. I stood up 3 times and once I rode the wave for a really long time and got an applause from some people!! Tarzan was a great teacher and got us all to stand up. Amazing!
We walked back home to our cabaña (there was no danger in walking at all) and then made tacos with beans tonight for dinner. Then Jackie taught us how to play ultimate charades, which is now my new favorite game!

Everybody writes down words on little slips of paper and puts them all together in a hat. Split up into teams and start the game!
1st round: just like catch phrase, use the words in the hat to get your team to guess as many words in 45 seconds. Do this until there are no words left. Keep score by how many words your team guessed!

2nd round: Put the same words back in the hat, but now you have to silently act them out. This time you have 1 min to get your team to guess as many correct words. Again keep score

3rd round: put all the words back and now you can only saw one word and that's it for your team to guess the word. 1min time for each person until the words run out.

We started writing down words for our third game of ultimate Charades when a mysterious truck pulls up near our cabaña and we all freak! Our cabaña was literally tucked away in the middle of nowhere. Who could this be?! The truck pulls in front of us and backs in. Someone was standing up in the back of the truck and soon enough we realized it was TARZAN!!!!! NO WAY!! He came to pick us up and take us into el centro. We heard there may have been tambores, but didn't have a ride into the town and so were fine with just staying home. Then tarzan shows up. Apparently he is friends with Margarita and the town is so small that he knew where we were staying!
No tambores that night, but there were a ton of people on the dock area dancing to music.

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