A Frisbee Update

I have continued to play frisbee with a team here in Cartagena and I love it (besides the fact that all of my sunscreen got used up and I got burnt for the first time in 7 months yesterday during practice). Lately my team has been going through a bit of an evolutionary phase and so we have been playing with a couple of other teams in the area. This picture is from a tournament we had a week ago in Barranquilla. We played with a crazy fun team from Santa Marta. We had a blast and played teams from all over Colombia and Venezuela. I learned a lot about strategy and met some really cool people. I also learned how to play poker.

The Team Caribbean - if that kid in the red hat weren't so dang tall you would be able to see me... :)

In Cartagena we have begun practicing with the other team located in the city, called Jiva. They are really cool and really good. The only problem with this is that if we combined teams we will no longer have a team to play against since our games last semester consisted always of us vs. them. I'm not worried about it though and I am super excited because this semester they scrounged up some girls to play on the team and they are adorable! And get this, their names are Jessica and Alba. I'm not joking!

(Jessica Alba playing beach frisbee...?)

Anyway, all good on the frisbee front; it is definitely a huge part of my life in Colombia. Lately I have been thinking a lot about how much I miss the Commons in Excelsior and throwing around a frisbee with my friends there, but for now I will just have to be content with the beaches of Cartagena. I think I will survive.

ULTIMATE!

It has been a long time since I have posted and a lot has happened including a trip to Cali, a city near the Pacific coast known for Salsa; lots of work; more play; and I have joined a frisbee team.

(The team)

One of my friends, Jota, started a team this year at his university and he invited me to play. We practice on the beach and it is beautiful. I love it! The people are the team are hilarious and a ton of fun. Some know how to play really well and others are just beginning, but we are improving rapidly. It is the perfect mix.

This past weekend we had a tournament in Barranquilla, another coastal city about an hour away. It was fabulous. We slept on the beach under the stars, woke up to the waves and the sunrise, and the first thing I did was go swimming in the sea. So beautiful. We played a pickup game of ultimate before breakfast. Then frisbee all day long. There were 6 teams of 7 or 8 people each and everyone was just so passionate about frisbee. It was such a cool atmosphere. And you could always just take a swim whenever you got too hot. Fantastic.

Anyway, this is how I'm spending a lot of my time now: running around the beach with really cool people chasing frisbees. I love it!

(Barranquilla!)