Surfing and day off

In my opinion and estimation, today is the day we had the most fun as we don’t have any more institutions to visit. However, a few people (10 people) had prearranged to take a few surfing lessons at the famous Venice beach. As usual, we all woke up early to get ourselves ready for the beach. A midst a few delays we finally left the house at 10:30 AM and got to the beach a few minutes to 12 noon. To our disappointment, the sea tides were very low; a situation that does not allow for surfing.

Looking at the prevailing situation at the time, people like myself were quite sure the surfing wasn’t going to take place. Like an answer to our secret prayers, the high tides began to form. After a few minutes of instruction from the surfing instructor, the fun began for the surfers. Like a child learning to walk for the first time, they make loads of mistakes; fell off the surfing boards lots of time. But I must admit, they are quick learners and so they improved greatly after a short while. I think Ester was the surfing hero. I know people like Sten will disagree with me but I still maintain my position.(Hahaahahaha, that’s just a joke)

The other group of people who were not surfing were either sitting around and watching the surfers surf ( I was part of this group for a while) or taking a stroll on the beach. Lest I forget, today coincides with the Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican festival and so there was quite a crowd at the beach. On the far sides of the Venice beach are the Santa Monica beach to one side and the Muscle beach on the other side. Eventually, every other person apart from surfers made a sojourn at the Muscle beach. As you can expect, the Muscle beach has a gym where very muscular men like no other I have ever seen in my life(hahahhahaha) go to gym. If you are reading this now and you haven’t been in any of these beaches, I definitely recommend you visiting them.

After three hours of being on the beach, we decided to take the fun elsewhere. So we divided ourselves into three groups and these groups went their separate ways. My group, which was just 7 of us, went to Downtown Los Angeles to take part in the Cinco de Mayo festival. Just to give a brief account of the festival, there were lots of cultural events with different groups of young performers dancing to some local Spanish music. This was a sight to behold. Also there lots of commercial activities as lots of Mexican shops displayed their wares to the public. On our way back we went grocery shopping. After that we made a quick detour to the liquor shop to get some beers for the evening.

The other two groups went driving round the city of LA visiting iconic places like the Hollywood sign and Griffiths Observatory just to mention but a few before heading back home.

After our dinner, we had ‘some’ beer and the rest is history. Thanks for reading this blog and we will keep you posted on further developments

Godwin K. Krampah

(international student)