uuuugh...the second day was worse.

went surfing again this morning. the waves were a little crazy so it wasn't so easy. not like it was ever easy, but you know. i sort of got up though. like, halfway. but it was only with the instructor's help. he held onto the board and pushed me. hehehehe... it was a cool feeling though.

but i can feel these huge bruises just growing on my knees. and my hips hurt from carrying the board. and, weirdly enough, i can still feel the leash on my right ankle tugging at me. yeah, i lost my board a few times and got pushed under by the waves and then pulled back up by my own board.

see, there are several problems that i have: 1) i cannot get very far from shore. i keep trying and trying to get past these waves but they keep pushing me back closer and closer to shore. grrr...; 2) once i'm paddling, i have trouble turning. i'm paddling and paddling to try to get myself to turn, but instead i end up parallel to the wave and then the wave comes crashing down on me and then it's bye bye cherry; 3) my arms are killing me. it's becoming quite a struggle to push myself up onto the board; 4) there is too much damn seaweed everywhere. these huge chunks of seaweed kept getting stuck to my board and my leash. so i couldn't get anywhere. i ended up dragging the seaweed with me. i had to go back to shore a couple times to extricate the stupid things.

oh man, there was this one point where, because i was so close to shore, the water was really shallow and i was on my board but i was too far up it so the wave ended up pushing me down and off and i sort of skinned my left knee against the ground. that was not fun.

but...despite all this, i might go again next weekend with sanaz. depending on the waves. but i am so sore. i could barely shower. my arms are about to fall off my body. and the bruises look ten times worse than yesterday. okay, maybe not ten. maybe like, five.

ooh, that shower felt good. time to go blow dry my hair. bye.