Before French class today ( Read more... )

I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately. I swear I wasn't always this absentminded. Then again, maybe I was and just don't remember ( Read more... )

For the record (this being the record), I feel about twenty times better about capoeira and two or three times better about Roberto than I did a few days ago. I decided it was going to be a good class and it was. For starters, we ran clockwise for the warm up at my request, which we have only done one other time that I can recall (also at my ( Read more... )

School and work are not really priorities for me right now. I’m kind of just waiting it out. I do what I have to do, and even though I don’t love it, it’s still a really good deal and a pretty sweet lifestyle. The classes I teach this semester (six hours per week) are extremely easy to prepare and fairly enjoyable to give, and I’m only taking two ( Read more... )

I just looked up for the millionth time the English teaching program in Brazil that I’m thinking about doing and they’ve changed the rules again. When I started toying with the idea, it was for either six or twelve months, then there was only the option of eleven months, and now it is twelve but -

“After 12 months if you are enjoying you make an ( Read more... )

I have the urge to do pontes all the time now. I do them in my office when no one is there. I do them before and after class. In my living room. Sometimes I still fall on my head, but more often than not, I don't.

Proof! In an emptyish parking lot Joan, Gen and I found to practice in while we were waiting, because we’re just that cool:

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(Feel ( Read more... )

First week of 18th grade successfully completed, though I’m still in denial about the summer being over. I’ve been in a series of strange moods this week. Half of me is having a midlife crisis and the other half is laughing at myself for being so moody and ridiculous. At the moment, the latter half is winning by a narrow margin ( Read more... )

Sometime back in March, back when I still thought he was kidding about these things, Roberto “taught” us a new move: start from the push-up position, and bring one hand and foot all the way over to land in a bridge/back-bend position, and then bring the other hand and foot over to get back into the original position except a little to the left or ( Read more... )

(There’s not even much capoeira in this entry, I promise ( Read more... )

My body hurts, from trying (and failing miserably but having a great time at it) way too many times yesterday to do ( this. )