My Adventure in the Orient.

Morning breakfast was good. I ran out of Bananas to put in my oatmeal so i will buy more this weekend.


Morning training was really fun. We did Wing Chun applications. We paired up and did moves on one another after the line drills.


Afternoon class was Baji applications. That was even more fun. During the applications I paired up with Kjitel for both classes. While we practiced the moves for each form, we would add a 'take down' or swipe the leg or take out the knee just to see if it will work then we asked Master Gou if we can do the extra move and he would smile and nod. It is cool just adding extra moves that we know to the forms.


Lunch was really good. Lately class is over about ten minutes to lunch instead of 30 minutes like the other weeks, so I just wait in line with Kjitel and usually he gets to the food before me.  I am the second one to get food because no matter if I get in line first in front of kjitel while we wait outside in line he always cuts in front of me.


Afternoon class was stance training and my legs are still sore from class.


Then before dinner I met my new next door neighbor who replaced Rodney, a man named Si. He is about 42, but looks like he is 30. He was born in England but came here from Brazil, but lived in India longer. He is very energetic, a few people around here thinks he is a bit crazy.  I never really had a full  conversation with him until today. I was in my room reading a new Book called the Three Kingdoms, which was given to me from Joseph, when Si comes in and asked how I was doing. I said 'fine'. We started talking about where he was from, how he lived in India and then went to Brazil to do kappawara and teach yoga. Then I asked if he teaches yoga here and he mentioned on Sundays he got a few guys including Sam to do a yoga class. I want to practice yoga on a daily basis if he could teach me. He told me actually he does do yoga on a daily basis in the morning starting at 5am! Oh, I did not ask if I could join him for a 5am class..... I was thinking of something more in the afternoons. He showed me a couple moves and explained different types of yoga to me. I told him my sister does Bikrum yoga and when I tried it I almost died. 

When we looked at the time it was 5:50pm. Dinner started about 2o minuts ago and here, if you don't get food within 5 minutes after the 5:30 start, all the food will be gone! We ran to the dining hall and found out that there was no more food. So I told him lets go next door for dinner. He never ate there before so we got some money and went there to eat. Met up with a few other people from the academy going to eat there too and had a good meal. Now I just got back from dinner. POWER TRAINING is tomorrow so going to get a good sleep. I hope I can do some yoga in the afternoons, I think that would be fun.

Goodnight


Scott