Samba/Rumba/Salsasize and Caopeira

Have just discovered the local gym runs aerobics classes so rocked up expecting standard gym fair. I paid my 40p for the class and to use all the equipment. No induction necessary and mingled amongst the busty and bummy Colombian ladies with my other blonde friend. This great gay man sachayed out and started pumping out the typical colombian beats. They only have about 5 songs here which are played repeatedly in every lugar, from the trendy club in Barranquilla to the radio on the local busetas to it seems our very own 'Gym School Power' rumbasize. The instructor stood with his back to us and his booty took up a mine of its own shaking in circles the rythmn of the music. Hynotising me into a tracelike state. The class feels like you are losing weight by shaking the fat off your bum and thighs. I wish I could move like a Colombian lady/gayman. I have been every night since.

Today went to a Capoeira class, hideously hungover but tempted by the promise of watching a fit Brazilian man all morning. Plus my two lady friends were coming with. I rocked up stinking of aguadiente to discover that I was the oldest by about 12 years in this class. Great. plus my other two friends werent there. Resolved to do something out of my comfort zone every day I rolled with in and proceeded to cartwheel around the patio, walk like a crab on my back and walk on my hands and knees with my bum in the air. Shaking of the embarrasement of being almost the only women, certainly the only one with breasts and the ability to grow leg hair I actually really got into it, handstanding up against the instructor and taking out my headache by kicking the instructor repeatedly in the chest. Then Fiona turned up and we did some more stuff in our typically awkward English way whilst gossiping about the fact that Fi had managed to pull a guy within less than half an hour of meeting him. and that at the kareoke bar, first prize was an actual chicken which one of our group won. An actual live chicken in a club which we all had a turn dancing with to some Salsa befpre we put it in a box to take home. An actual chicken. I love colombia.