SWEAT

So today after sleeping in way later than intended...i got my toosh up, had some granola for breakfast..and headed to the gym with Mati...This gym here in Devoto is actually the best thing ever...I've yet to pay anything, bc Mati is friends with everyone, but even when I do pay, supposedly it'll cost me 50 pesos a month (NADA...it's like 12$)..Anywho..we jogged there this morning, (about 2km away) and it's actually quite warm out...Like 70s. So by the time I arrived, I was of course, sweating bullets. Mati did not even sweat one drop. In the gym, it's mostly dudes, trying to get huge, but then there are a few girls/women who prance around in fancy outfits. I waltz in huffing and puffing, dripping sweat, with my "I bleed HOYA blue" tshirt, and some mesh shorts that are approximately 13 years old. Anyways, I get going on some free weights, and get some weird looks here and there...and then I moved to a mat to do some abbs...every time a "trying-to-get-huge"-guy would walk by, he would stare at me with a puzzled look that read "what in god's name is this crazy girl doing...and why is she soaking wet with sweat?"...meanwhile, the other girls in the gym are using machines with 4kilos of weight on them...aren't sweating at all, have makeup on...and the large majority were not wearing sports bras...One even had a frilly pink bra with a matching frilly pink tanktop. The girls also seemed a bit confused by my presence..especially when i started to do some weird looking abb exercises..which for us (on GUWRFC/ in the USA in general) are completely normal: re: russian twists, cherry pickers, bicycles...

As a rule, girls here don't do hardcore working out type stuff...that's not to say that there aren't a handful of women who are avid runners, or weightlifters or cyclists, etc....but in a small barrio like the one I am in...girls and sweating..don't mix. I guess I won't ever completely blend in. Haha.

After about an hour at the gym, we ran back home...and I began to sweat again..when we got to the door Mati said something along the lines of "It's impressive how much you sweat"...definitely a self-esteem boost...NOT..

Marta, I was thinking of you throughout my sweating experience how in Portugal you said that in the gym Fernanda would just prance around and you would be soaking wet with sweat...and no one else in the gym seemed to be sweating..I feel your pain.

Anywho...today I have a lazy afternoon planned and may do something fun at night..But tomorrow we have a game, and I have to be at this train station at 8:15am... GASP. So probably I won't end up doing anything too crazy tonight. Game should be good tomorrow, minus the early wakeup time..IT's all 7s now in the girls league. I've never played in a real 7s match, so we'll see how it goes. Should be interesting.