First Work Out at the Gym

My first workout was not an utter disaster as I imagined. I did not drop a weight on the foot of the trainer, nor did I get tangled up in some gym equipment, or suffer a bout of traveller’s diarrhea while doing sit-ups. In fact, it went quite well. Suranga (the trainer) said that actually I did not have that much body fat and it should take very little time for me to tone up my body. ha! I think people here have a different definition of "not much body fat" than we do in North America!

On the walk to the gym I saw an armed solider about every block. Suranga said that there were so many checkpoints because of the funeral for the Foreign Minister. Later Susanna and I watched the funeral broadcasted live on tv.