22 Juni - Autsch

I finally got responses from my advisers and they all say something different. That's what happens when you have four advisers that don't even know each other.  My economics professor who is my adviser said he thinks any comparison I do of costs and outcomes would be useful. Not much help other than a thumbs up. My other adviser (the one who sent me here) is worried about my project being too broad.  She will be in Amsterdam to discuss it further. Then there is my adviser here, Diana, that has been so helpful and sweet with everything but doesn't have much input about my project.  She talked to Wendelin about it and he said that he doesn't think doing a system comparison will turn up anything new and is afraid that much of the information I need on costs will be unavailable.  Seems to me, it would have been nice to mention this in our discussions before I got here and not spring this completely different project on me.  Anything I do will be a learning experience and I have to keep that in mind and not to get too worked up about it all.

We got caught in the rain again on the way to the train station for Capoeira.  Nothing like sitting on the train soaking wet for an hour.

Capoeira was tough today.  The instructor visiting from Brazil has quite a different teaching style than the regular instructors.  First we did some extensive stretching and as always when someone encounters my flexibility, they like to see how far I can go.  I'm not double jointed or a contortionist or anything, but it still amazes some people.  Sometimes I worry that even though I don't feel any pain, something is one day just going to snap out of place and not go back where it's supposed to.  He twisted me up like a pretzel.  Then, since I was the only one who could bend back from standing into a bridge (like a walkover with out the kickover), he made me do it ten times... up and down... for his amusement I think. He was practically holding me up by the ninth bend.  Then we did animal walks like the tiger holding ourselves just and inch from the ground, a scorpion with one leg up in the air like the tail, a crab, and even a crocodile. We practiced some acrobatics and when he spotted me for a back flip, he practically threw me across the room. We did a bunch of kicks and blocks with au-oo's (cartwheels) in between until we were all dripping pools of mush.

I made Skylar guard the changing room this time and Ricki made all the guys get out completely :)

Somehow we made the earlier train and were back in Heilbronn before dark and in bed at a decent hour.