1 – Driving abroad. At home I passed my test 2 months after my 17th birthday and I have never really being without a car since. I enjoy driving and I really enjoy good cars; yet I have never driven abroad. So when I braved getting a hire car in Lanzarote I was a little anxious and consistently thought “I must remember to stay on the correct side of the road!”. Luckily Caroline was with me and I had her to navigate our way across the island and help keep me from ending up the ditch because I seemed naturally drawn to the edge of the road!! It was funny, we have a tiny little chevi thing that barely fits my kite kit in but hey it will do at 94Euros for the week!! I get to venture to Famara in it tomorrow to test the kite kit properly!!
2 – True Spanish Paella. With a fairly adamant aversion to sea food Paella for me has predominately involved being vegetarian and although good always felt a little like I was cheating. So when myself and Caroline had proper full on paella the other night with squid and mussels and prawns I was a little worried but it turned out to be very delicious! Even if Caroline got attacked by prawn spunk!
3 – Kite moves that I hadn’t been taught in a lesson. I am naturally a worrier, I get it from my Mum, wish is no bad thing but I also have a little bit of my dad’s lack of worry so kiting works out quite nicely for me sometimes. When I finally switch of the inner sensible I then start to try a few things and I am always surprised about how much progress I make. I am looking forward to getting back on the water tomorrow and get practising my back rolls and heel to toe turning!
4 – Driving a car on to a ferry! Sad huh! Funny though!
5 – Thinking about change. With losing my job I always expected this trip to be a little time for me to assess my career and the way I wanted my life to go. I never expected to meet so many wonderful people and experience so many different out looks on life and enjoy it so much. I have had an offer for a job working in Egypt as part of the team that I was kiting with and a year ago I wouldn’t have even consider taking it with everything at home, now my outlook is although I would be away from home I would also be at my surrogate home and learning at least one new language! Ha.
6 – Waxing. I am blessed with a very dear friend at home who does my bikini line every few weeks and I know her very well and it doesn’t worry me one bit, when you are away for 10 weeks in foreign climbs this simple and short task becomes a mission! Luckily I have a friend who lives in the canaries and recommended a great English owned salon which I managed to visit today in relative comfort! Thanks Vyks.
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