I'd really been looking forward to this: A visit to the Graffiti Wall of Fame in Harlem. And we were fortunate to have Alyssa, the hip hop dance teacher with us as well! We took the subway up there and had so much fun playing around in that schoolyard!
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15. July, 2009
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Oyvind
We met up with Alyssa for a really unhealthy, not very tasty and way too early breakfast. Pancakes with syrup, what a way to jumpstart your metabolism!
Anyway, we took the subway to harlem, and made our way to the school with the famous walls. And I have to say, once we got there the sight was amazing! So much detail, so many cool paintings!
My favourite ones were of the subway cart and the green stuff next to it, really sweet! Be sure to check out the pictures! Unfourtunately the battery went out on my camera, so I didn't get to take as many pictures, hopefully we can get some more from Alyssa later on.
Freeze, punks!
Alyssa asked if we wanted to learn some freezes, and we accepted - of course we wanted! A freeze is part of breakdance, for example you can do a spin and end up with your body locked still in one position after the move.
It took some arm and core strength, but after a few minutes scrambling around on the sidewalk outside the school, managed to get up on our arms for our first freeze. We actually learned several of the easier freezes rather quickly, alyssa is a good teacher. Lots of fun!
Afterwards we went inside the playground, and walked around for a bit, watching all the tags on the walls in there. There was a track inside, which was a very good foundation to do some more freezes. Alyssa taught us how to get up in a handstand, and we managed to get a some awesome poses, Chris even got up on one hand for a bit, that was amazing! We'll post the pictures once we get them from Alyssa.
The Lounge at the hostel
Afterwards we were exhausted and our hands hurt like hell, so we had to go home. There was nothing going on in the lounge that night. The lounge has been really disappointing, we were expecting daily events and a party every night, but instead it's usually filled with people reading books, surfing the net and watching TV. Tonight, everyone was wathcing some crappy US dating reality show on VH1. God, TV sucks over here.
Hangover!
Anyway, we decided to just go to the movies, and went to the evening performance of Hangover. That movie was AWESOME! So funny and so well put together. Especially love that asian gangster. Tudelu motherfuckaaaaaaa!
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