Living on the beach

     Since we've been on the coast for a few weeks, I've been learning how to surf.  The first beach that we went to called Ayampe, was a quiet town on the coast.  There was a beach a few minutes from the hotel where we swam and surfed.  The waves were a little bit rough, and one time we had to stop our surf lesson because of it.  The second place we went to was a town on the coast called Canoa.  The beach was more crowded than Ayampe, but the waves were less rough.  We had two surf lessons there.  

When we were in Ayampe, we saw our cousins for a few nights.  We got to go in a van with them to the beach and we took surf lessons with them.  It was really fun having them there because we were such a big group and did so many things with them.  Since we moved around on the coast, we had different surfing instructors.  They taught really differently.  Our first instructor, named Keith, was mostly focusing on position and he pushed us into waves.  Our second instructor, named Cedric, mostly focused on standing up and catching our own waves.  They taught very differently but both were good instructors.

     We just arrived in a place called Playa Escondida.  It means hidden beach.  It's mostly a small country resort.  We are living here in a small thatched roof house, a short walk from the beach.  We can't surf here but the swimming is fun.  Now since school started again, we are doing school work.  

This picture is of our house right now.