Asheville Adventures (part 2)

Welcome to part 2 of my weekend spent in Asheville! (Check out part 1 over here, and be sure to enter my Balance Bar Fall Medley giveaway while you’re at it!)

This week’s The Fit Dish (hosted by Jessica and Jill) is on creating a personal zen space, which I definitely hope to do at some point, but cannot currently because my life is so all over the place right now.

I’m not quite down recapping my Asheville adventures, so I spilled it over into another post, and as luck would have it, today’s half incorporates a whole lot of elements that I’d like to have in my future zen space.

I’d probably actually have two. One would be akin to the beautiful zen garden I saw when I visited the Met back in my grad school days, or at least someplace outdoors with a body of water. The other would be…the dance studio that I’d like to have in my future dream house. In my ideal world, it’d have super high ceilings, a hardwood floor, and poles, aerial silks, and…my latest imaginary addition: aerial lyra!

It wasn’t quite so rainy on Sunday, so we decided to go to Carrier Park for a walk, since it was nearby and I had a class in the early afternoon. It was a chilly fall day, but not bad! It was really pretty! Carrier Park is by the French Broad river, and also has a dog park, basketball courts, and…lawn bowling!

I’d never heard of lawn bowling before, but we talked to a local who explained it to us (it’s kinda almost like bocce ball, but you kinda roll it more). :] Carrier Park also has a velodrome that used to be a car track, but now is probably better suited for bikes. :PCheck out part

Gangsta rubber duckie!

One of my pipe dreams is to be a Cirque du Soleil performer, but since I decided to go for medicine, this will likely never happen. Still, one can pretend, so I signed myself up for a circus arts class! More specifically, aerial hoop (lyra)!

Here’s the beginning of the sequence that we learned in class! It’s the second aerial lyra class I’ve ever taken in my life (the first one was back in early 2012), but thankfully, the 6 months of pole I did back in 2011 translated over, and my usual powerlifting made it so I was strong enough to not fail at life! :D!

Part of the end of the sequence! :D

I went to Mamacita’s Taqueria (check out my review here!) to get a burrito after my class before running off to my next interview location!

Chicken Citrus Burrito!

I’ve been feeling super spoiled on my residency interview trail. Hotels with ginormous beds that I can sleep across horizontally without my feet hanging off, being picked up and brought to dinner… The programs I’ve been interviewing at have been rather awesome–everyone has been super nice, and a lot of fun to talk to! :]

One of the programs I’m interviewing at is entirely new, so they didn’t have any residents yet, but I bumped into someone from my school on my way to pick up dinner–the only reason I knew he was from my school was because of the shirt he was wearing and the fact that his face looked familiar. (sigh.)

We went out for dinner together because company’s always kinda nice (med school can be rather alienating), and…I couldn’t think of his name the entire time. I’m a terrible human being.

My med school class is pretty big–we started out with 216, and although we’re down to about 176-ish, and I was an HBL-er (home-based learner), which essentially meant that I only went to class when it was mandatory. …so I’d like to think that it wasn’t entirely my fault!

• What would you put in your personal zen space?
• Have you ever heard of aerial lyra/hoop? It was so fun! :]
• What would go into your dream house?

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