SHARK ATTACK

So we have continued surfing, in the last week. The second time we went, the waves at the local beach were small so they bussed us out to a nearby beach. There were 12 of us in the van and it was about a 20 minute ride out to this other beach. It was a gorgeous sunset while we surfed, and I accidentally grabbed a jellyfish while I was paddling out to the waves. In the bus, there were 3 little kids (8-9 years old) that were trying to talk to us. They were talking to us about America and for whatever reason whenever someone finds out that we are American the first thing they say is OBAMA. So of course this little kid was saying Obama and asking us a bunch of random questions. He then left us all speechless when he said "Could you please ask the king of America to stop sending soldiers to Afghanistan to kill Muslims?" Awkward.

While we were surfing, Chelsea got hit by some kids surfboard, therefore resulting in a black eye. We decided we were going to tell the other kids some crazy story about a shark attack, not thinking that they would actually believe it. Christina and Chelsea came up with a story, and later that night I got an email saying that Nate and Karina had bought the story no questions asked and that we were all to go along with it.

This was the story: chelsea was surfing and christina looked over and saw a big dark shape under the water. so she tried to yell and warn chelsea but this scared chelsea and she fell off the board onto the black shape which happened to be a shark. the shark got scared and got tangled in chelseas surfboard leash and dragged her under. conveniently there happened to be a reef where she got dragged under and so she tied the leash to the reef therefore tying the shark onto the reef and then she swam back to safety.

Karina and Nate still believe this ridiculous story.

The next time we went surfing it was at the local beach and there were very small waves so we just spent the time messing around in the water. These waves were so small that we literally had to run (in the water) after the wave, pushing our boards and throw ourselves onto them to get enough speed to stand up. It was still fun, and we have one more lesson left, and then we are going to try to get a free lesson out of throwing a goodbye party.