Thursday Doors 23/3/23: Capalbio Scalo primary school 1.

When I returned from my summer vacation in Slovenia last September, the primary school in our little town held not one but three surprises. One of them concerns a certain door that used to make me mad.

A convenient shortcut to the train station, which passes through the school courtyard, I have often taken in my almost ten years living here. A little house, which turned out to be facilities, had an eyesore on the door that always made me cringe. I included it in my rare shit post in which I gathered the bad things around me. Rare, since usually I zero in on the good. That door features heavily.

How happy it made me to discover that finally, FINALLY, it has been painted over!! And I didn’t have to do it myself!

Surprises number two and three are even more surprising: there is a new skateboard ramp, even though I have never seen a skateboard around here, and there is a new exercise track/fitness course (choose the better expression in English) around the school with descriptions in four (4!!) languages.

I mean… I just don’t get it. Who is the target audience? I don’t think it is the pupils. But Italians do nothing of the three: exercise, read, or learn languages. 😀 Foreign tourists are few and far between and they certainly would not find their way to the schoolyard. Not surprisingly, I have yet to see anybody on this course.

Two weeks ago, on a weekend so as not to disturb school activities, I went there, not to exercise (haha!) but to take photos of all these novelties. This is part one of the report.

To understand the haha part: I used to do it regularly, you see. Back in Slovenia I used to go to just such an exercise track above Ljubljana, and I did them all, and I ran between the stops with our first dog, and most importantly: I organised a surprise party for my mom’s 60th birthday there. Ahh, memories.

So to see such a track grow right here over the summer for no reason at all, I take it a little personally.

The primary school’s main entrance.

The gate to the schoolyard.

This is new. What is that behind the gate?

Oh! It’s a skateboard ramp.

Another view. It’s locked. I have yet to see anybody in there. For now only rainwater gathers in the middle.

Another perpetually open gate from the main road. On the left you can see the first sign.

It’s “percorso fitness”, or fitness course! In four languages, for occasional and regular users. At your own risk!

I couldn’t believe my eyes. A proper course! “Legs together, rotate arms.”

Exercise 2: “Flex body with straight arms and legs.”

The first three stops are really close together. Not much jogging.

Exercise 3 (English gets a little awkward): “Push-ups on the legs with his arms outstretched.”

Exercise 4 is not readable but it has to do with hanging from this doorlike structure and lifting yourself.

A look back where we came in. Bestia refuses to do push-ups.

Exercise 5 makes jumping over these obstacles look very easy.

Exercise 6 mentions walking on these forward and backward.

Exercise 7 is sit-ups with your feet stuck under one of these. Their English is better than mine (but I can’t read the photo).

Exercise 8: “Lift with your arms until you have passed the bar with your head.” The course will continue next week.

The yard entrance into the school.

And here it is, the little freshly painted facilities house.

Apparently red for girls, blue for boys.

Curious to see what that blue door used to show for at least last ten years? This is what. Photo from 2019. So glad it’s gone.

For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities

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