A Saturday like no other. 5:45 am wake up for a swim. Picked up a friend. Both of us dead tired. Went to Birrong pools. The water was unexpectedly warm. Now, I've never EVER swam for the purpose of cardio. So after a couple of laps, shit got tiring as hell! Started to rain as well, pretty awesome. No one else decided to come since they were lazy asses, so it was just her and I. After about a good 45 minutes we decided to call it quits. Took her home.
Arrived home at 7:30 am and had to shower and get ready for work. Another interesting day of work. The new pharmacist is an interesting guy, and easy to talk and relate to. I like a boss who talks to the employees. Good man.
Straight after I went to Hapkido. An ok lesson. But the fun began after class. Heaps of grappling and sparring!
Went home and chilled for a bit and got ready for a second date. I couldn't wait so I kept myself occupied by revising the staff pattern I learnt from training.
So the time came to pick her up. We were scheduled at 7:30 to go ice skating at Canterbury. Me nervous as crap still. Now when I’m nervous, my co-ordination goes out of whack. So this did NOT help with my driving. It was almost all over the place. The worst thing that happened was me running over one of the islands on the road. I seriously did not see that in my peripherals. My driving scared her. NOT GOOD.
Finally reached the ice rink, but we were a little early. So we chatted a bit in the car. She wanted a golden Labrador. Admittedly I was too busy staring at her face way too much lol.
We saw people walking in so we decided to start going in. My stupid ass parked at the wrong entrance. What?! It’s been 6 years since I’ve been here! Apparently there was some sort of fundraiser for Kids with cancer. So we decided to donate like $10 for some raffle tickets (so generous, I know). As soon as we walked in, the cold hit me HARD. I’d almost forgotten ice did such a thing! So on came the jacket, and to the skates we went. It seemed like the shoes didn’t change at all from 6 years ago. Those same blue ice skates that existed back then. She had trouble putting her skates on (lol what a dope), so I had to help her. With skates at the ready and a place to set down our stuff, the fun began!
Now, I was never a good skater back then, always so clumsy and stumbling all over the place. But as soon as those blades hit the ice, I felt as natural as walking. I was freaking AWESOME. Gliding like a pro lol. I couldn’t say the same for her though. “My chance!!” , I thought to myself. So as she was going real slow, I slowed down next to her and held out my hand. ‘You okay?’ And she grabbed it! Huzzah! So we went for a few laps holding hands. I supported her all the way. Me looking back at her, she always smiled back. I like her smile.
She suddenly let go, ‘You go ahead’, she kept saying, ‘I got this’. All I wanted was to skate next to her, and just chat (although the loud music made that a little difficult). So, I did what she said. Skated a little ahead, but still stayed close by. What I ended up doing was skate in circles around her! I always looked back, and again, she would smile at me. All the time. She was definitely too afraid of falling to enjoy her time skating.
So we took a break, and conveniently it was time for the exhibition for the fundraiser. The ice was resurfaced and an ice skating champion was brought onto the rink. She did a routine, which was quite impressive, and the raffles were called out. We didn’t win anything :(.
After the exhibition we skated a little bit more. She made a marked improvement compared to when she started. She kept up with me quite well. Pretty good!
She got a little tired, seeing as how we’ve been here for almost two hours. Personally, I could do this all night. So we both exited the rink and sat down at our settlement and decided what to do next. ‘Let’s eat noggi!’, she said. Sure, anything is fine with me.
At noggi, we ordered one multi to share. She picked the toppings, while I picked the flavours. We sat and talked. More about family and friends, pets, our day, future plans. After that we went for a walk. FOR AN HOUR.
She said, ‘we should walk off the froyo, let it digest’. Her lack of knowledge on human physiology was almost too cute. I explained to her that the body digests best when it is at rest. ‘Learn something new everyday!’ At least she was open to it. We talked about our fears, prospective careers, travel, holidays, and just random shit! I couldn’t believe how fast the time flew.
It got real late, and well, I had training in the morning. I didn’t want it to end :(. Dropped her at her place, said our goodbyes and exchanged hugs, and headed straight home.
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