Oh God... I'm in Athens and I am so bored all I want is someone to talk to. My neck has seriously started to hurt from all the looking down I've been doing (reading and computing - solo activities.) I've been having a hard time traveling alone. I really expected to be stronger than this. Maybe it's just homesickness starting to set in. But is it wrong? I'm counting the minutes until I can Skype with my friend from Montreal. I'm finally at a real hostel after weeks of solo rooms and meals.…

I've been watching the snow in my backyard, try to pretend to melt. I look at it everyday hoping, "maybe in a week I can hoop in the sun?" Well, my backyard is still mounded with snow, but I realized not EVERYWHERE is. there is bare grass to be found all over the city, sopping wet, but void of snow. So today I packed my hoop and some beats and went across the street to the park in my community. It was only 7 degrees C so I wasn't sure if I would be warm enough. After peeling off layer after…

"Something new everyday" that's my goal, and it seems to be working. Since attending Edmonton's Hoop Path this past February, I just couldn't wait for summer any longer and vowed to find an indoor hoop space. (I hadn't picked up my hoop since October) At the very sad end of a fantastic Hoop Path, I was just beginning to experiment with angles and I had still not mastered the art of chest hooping. Now after nearly a month of dedicated practice (an hour everyday I don't work, and usually every…