Another post, lets see shortly following my last post I ventured out into the world in search of money and carbonated beverages finding only money I headed back, and quickly ran into a gaggle of merry travelers.
Alright enough of that, but after running into these people they talked me into joining them for an afternoon at the gym down in Jorupati, it was lets say a painfully fun experience the joints of my arms and legs are still quite stiff and sore. But it was tons of fun to say the least, I started going for about 20 kilometers by bike racing a girl, then the power came back and she talked me into getting on the treadmill ... I tried my best ... really did, but in the end had to fall off with a rib cramp from hell. So she ran a couple minutes longer than I did ... also she ran track in Bejing I believe unfair advantage :P. After that I tried most of the random assortment of equipment available, mainly one ... not sure what they call it but a four sided tower with an assortment of stuff available to work on, I stuck with the pull chain one that was kind of like rowing and pushing on the big plate to make the weights rise, both were fun painful in hindsight but fun :P
The gym has quite a deep pool, it's drained for cleaning and won't be in use till the end of February then I'll have to go back! Olympic Sized for the win. But the shower there was also a nice touch, there was a Sauna but I passed this time, maybe next if I have a chance. But all in all a good experience. Made it back to Boudha after dark had a soy burger at the good ol G-Cafe with the group tried to reference something in Chinese :P Luckily had my lonely planet there so it made sense since the obscure terminology (polite table manners) weren't translating for Lukgi :P And then went to meet some Germans with everyone's favorite Norwegian Troll but that wasn't that fun he ditched us and we were trying to help some Swedish people find somewhere they were trying to go. So a long walk home under the stars since everyone's taxi stop was a lot closer than mine.
But an interesting time was had by all, and I am still to this day (day two after) quite sore in the arms but it was nice to work off that for a bit. Yesterday was a long tiring Friday, pretty crap, paper was done last minute due to a lack of power in my computer, but bleh teacher can't really complain since we get docked for going over 500 words and after editing stuff out was at a clean 478 :P
And now a quite saturday I've downloaded several books that I think will help with my course work and have had a garlic garlicky pizza, now what to do with the day? Also T.S. Elliot is going good, will update later.