alternative activities

last night i went out. it was saturday night and isn't that what people do? sheida had found out from some friends that there are some gyms in and around bilbao that are trying to offer alternative healthy activities to people on saturday nights. we were going to a free capoeira class from 10 p.m. to midnight. i'm really and truly in Spain. I have always loved the alternative timing of everything here... bedtime is generally after midnight, morning starts much later, and of course, there's siesta. Anyway, if the thought of a capoeira class at 10 p.m. is strange, stranger still was the fact that it was competing with a yoga class and african dancing at the same time, brazilian dancing and squash at 11, and then there was the swimming pool aerobics from midnight to 1:30 a.m.
Can you imagine, you have your dinner at 9:30, like usual, change into your workout clothes, take the subway (which runs 24 hours a day) to San Ignazio, and have a nice yoga warmup followed by a swimming aerobics class... and you're home by 2!