Last year, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to learn to surf.
This year, one of my New Year’s resolutions is to continue learning to surf…
Whilst I did at last make a start on making good on my 2007 resolution, going so far as to pay for a surfing lesson last year and even splashing out by treating myself to one of those very attractive blue Costco softboards, I am, in all honesty, no more a surfer today than I was at the beginning of last year. So I am determined to really make it happen in 2008.
Some (but by no means all) of the reasons why I’m going to learn to surf this year:
1) I live and work in Laguna Beach, with the beautiful Pacific Ocean almost on my doorstep, so really have no excuse not to
2) My husband bought a board at the same time as me last year and he has become much better than me - this will not do
3) I have always loved being in/on the ocean and this is just one more way of getting into/onto it
4) One of my colleagues is an actual, proper, real-life surfer dude and I am hopeful that if I bribe him with enough food (perhaps even leaving a trail of bagels leading down to the water’s edge?), he will succumb to joining me in the water on the occasional lunch break to give me a bit of coaching and helpful hints
5) I want to learn to speak the lingo so that I can understand what said-colleague is talking about when he goes off into a diatribe speaking Surf
6) A whole bunch of my buddies back in South Africa are surfers, and I would love to see their faces when I do my thang on the waves next time I am back home
7) Surfing = cool
So, I shall be using this blog to share my surfing pleasure and pain over the next few months. I can’t wait to get in the water! Just as soon as it warms up a teeny bit more….
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