"My son says you were in Twilight. Were you?"

I finally returned to Capoeira training today. I searched every unlocked room in the recreation center of the park until I saw Jesse II through the creak of the door to the big gym. The rest of the class was Andres and the new kid Carlos (not to be confused with Carlos in Nebraska), whom I met right before I left to the Philippines ... and a mess load of little kids! Wow, they're moving on up!

Drills for Jesse, Carlos and I - collectively referred to as "the big boys:"

• Parafuso (spinning back kick + forward spining kick as 1 aerial kick) all the way down the basketball court. Then switch sides. We were already done (and dizzy) after that one. But ...
• New combo: Meia lua de compasso (hands-on-the-ground spin kick) as a fake and cut the opponent's angle to execute a real meia lua where he'll run into it.

A woman, who later turned out to be the mother of Shane (the little boy whom I met when I visited last time) pulled me aside to ask me a question.

SHANE'S MOM: My son says you were in Twilight. Were you?

I love it.

Then it was Andres, the big boys and I vs. the whole class. But all we were allowed to do were meia lua de frente (front arch/rainbow kick) and au (cartwheel). After an hour, the schedule had us moving to our regular room.

After the kids got to go home, we "big boys" had to continue training. The oldest of the kids joined us. Her name's Vanessa. She had to say it 3 times for me to understand it (it's either a weird accent or a speech impediment, or both). Kind of fat, not a looker, but she's a minor anyway. After hand-standing into a pike, doing bridges, crunches, and pseudo-yoga stretches, my muscles were shot. I think I played against everyone. It ended when I tried to esquiva (dodge) Andres' kick and my legs gave out, collapsing on the floor. Andres taunted me to get up, but I "tapped out" and he finally pulled me to help me up.

I did some mall-ratting and saw Hazel, the substitute for Jazz in my database, at the Red Robin. Renewed the database. Rushed home for Smallville, only to find out it's not coming back until April 2. Blue balls! Ended the night with WWE Smackdown instead. My mommy and I ate beef with mushrooms because she uncharacteristically forgot we weren't allowed to eat meat on Fridays during the Lenten season. Score!