Or walking through snow.
And finally, training in snow:
22 Turkish Get Ups
800 Swings (yes 800)
Some (er, not sure exactly) beam pull-ups
Yet strangely, today I found myself in California.
At San Jose bus station, to be precise.
Physically, I was standing in the snow queueing at a cashpoint outside a supermarket.
Bored and cold, I looked up to the sky...which was unexpectedly powder blue, with fluffy white clouds hanging peacefully. And I don; know why, but I remembered a moment 9 months earlier, sitting on a bench waiting for the bus to Santa Cruz, when I looked up and saw the very same sky.
I don't know what made me think this.
But as I did, the Coventry cold left me, and I was sitting on that bench in California.
And I realised then that California will always be with me.
If you're English, you may subscribe to the media popular view of our American cousins:
they are rude, ignorant, arrogant.
Here's the truth:
from the armed security at JFK airport to the Hispanic hotel maids, every American I met was polite, courteous, intelligent and articulate.
I pondered this as I walked round a crowded supermarket where strangers bumped into me, cut in front of me, and barged past me, without a please, thank you or excuse me.
And I was grateful then that California will always be with me.
I will see you again, California, but not yet...not yet.
General Out
Hey! You should come to Oregon, waaay more mellow than Cali. We've got much better beer and coffee too. They do get all of the sunshine though. Us Americans aren't all bad, but we don't always represent well.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you're still kickin ass! I'm limping along(literally), but I'm gonna finish damn it! Glad we "met" brother. You always have good posts.
Hey brother, I may take you up on that offer, hoping to get stateside again in 2011, be awesome to train at Code Zero!
ReplyDeleteYou are gonna finish...we're in this together and I believe in you.