Month: June 2014
A beautiful day on Caye Caulker
The Revelation Bootcamp in Belize City!
Here are the photos from last weekend’s Bootcamp in the BTL park here in Belize. Cricel – the same girl who runs the Danza Revelation classes – was pushing us to jump, run, push, carry and pull – and it was a fantastic day packed with energy and great team spirit.
We were followed by Knight and Day photography – so I managed to get hold of some of the shots.. great stuff!
Can’t wait for the next time. I had Cricel promise it won’t be when I’m out of town. ;)
Shaking it in the Dark!
Today we had the Danza Revelation class with the lights turned off, disco lights on and DJ Khris spinning our tracks. It was like kicking all of our Danza moves in a real nightclub with a big group of friends, huge amounts of energy, and loud “awoooogah!” shouts – I’m so happy to have found this amazing group!
Took a little time-out to film one of the Brazilian songs we were doing – just as the sun was setting. Cricel Castillo in the front line, showing the way to shake it.
Majestic summer
A taste of the Belize City nightlife
Saturday night was fun by the way.
We went to Club Elite at the Princess hotel where DJ Private Ryan from Trinidad was playing Soca music and commercial house tunes. The crowd was very young, the place was filled way over its capacity, and the dj was changing the beats a bit too often – but I had a really great night with my new friends from the Danza and Saturday’s bootcamp. We danced and danced and danced. Fun and happy girls!
The selection of nightclubs here in Belize City isn’t the greatest. Apart from the two clubs that are next to each other (Elite and Thirsty Thursdays) and both play the same type of music and host the same young crowd that doesn’t start to dance before it has had enough alcohol by 2am – I haven’t yet found many options.
Apparently there are other places, and I have driven past them a couple of times, but they are referred to as the “ghetto clubs” where somebody gets hurt every weekend and nobody wants to go there. Actually, every single person I have asked says: “We don’t party in Belize City. To have real fun you need to get out – jump over to the islands or take a trip to Chetumal in Mexico!”
That’s not really what I had in mind.. I really like the part of the night when you come home, exhausted and happy, kick the shoes off, take a nice shower, and open the fridge to have some dark chocolate. And a proper breakfast the next day. No checkouts.
I have still not given up, and in the bootcamp I met a Nicaraguan friend who promised that there is a Latino club somewhere. Where people dance bachata. A safe ghetto club.
Das Working Environment
I was listening in on a presentation about exciting UNICEF C4D initiatives earlier, such as the “Take Poo to the Loo” campaign in India – you need to see that Youtube video! The Word-made calendar behind me is inspired by the huge calendar Camila set up in our office in Nicaragua where we planned each month in detail – it’s really nice to have an overview of all the awesomeness that is coming up, and I’m reminded about meetings and deadlines I maybe subconsciously am trying to ignore.
I feel like I can breathe in my office now that I took the time to go through and sort all of the papers, folders and publications in had in my bookshelf. The communication officer office is usually where at least one copy of all printed material is dumped and stored.. and it was a complete mess that I couldn’t get my head around. Now I know what I have, it’s beautifully organised by theme and programme area, and it’s all marked with cute little tags! Oh, happy day! Efficiency!
Maybe I should create a category here in the blog for all the times I am being German.
The Revelation Bootcamp
Insane day today at Cricel’s The Revelation Bootcamp in the BTL park here in Belize City. The same girl who runs the Danza Revelation sets up these monthly bootcamps where all limits are pushed and the team spirit is in focus. We started at 7am and were almost 40 people split into four teams.
My team came second and we got a bunch of prizes.. but the best prize I gained was a whole set of new fun friends (insert violin) and the fact that my quads are on fire. Haha
We’re going dancing tonight!
There was actually a professional photographer following us today, so I might share some photos of me pulling a big tire, jumping like a frog, running weirdly or carrying a team mate on my shoulders.. can’t wait to see those!
Hippie energies
Here’s my hippie moment of the month:
I was looking at the full moon from my window and it reminded me about my crystal and how I had been instructed to “charge it in the light of the full moon” by the person who made it for me. I’m not really into the magic of crystals, but I thought I might as well hang it out there if I’m already being a hippie wearing it.
At least to give it some good vibes and fresh air.
So I went outside – and just as I was hanging the crystal by the grid of my front door, a huge white owl flew by and sat on my fence, looking at me. So beautiful!
Hippie energies for the win. Good night.
Magnet delivery & Sticky9 discount code.
Got the first batch of some of my chosen Instagram photos delivered today by Sticky9 as magnets – so now I will have some of my favourite people and moments on my fridge. :)
It took about two weeks to get them all the way to Belize City (that’s quite impressive), and I’m super happy about the fact that they offer free worldwide delivery – great stuff!
Sticky9 makes magnets in various sizes, phone covers and other beautiful things from your Instagram photos – and I got a discount code for my friends to use, which gives you 15% off on your first order! The code is: FRIENDWVT3
You can also use this link: https://sticky9.com/?pid=113&referral_code=FRIENDWVT3&pack_id=2251121
Enjoy!