Thank God It is the Weekend

Friday

Woke up feeling better. Trained a bit harder today and felt great. Went over forms in wing chun and baji class. Then the mountain run after lunch.


I did about 10 bear crawls until i started feeling a bit sick so i headed back with a few other guys as well.  I made it back in time for the caligraphy class with master gou. I was talking to phil about it and its only him and Master Gou in that class. I decided to go check it out. Master Gou taught me how to write the first stroke which is a horizontal line, then how to write Kunyushan Mountain where we train and, my chinese name Zi Long.


After class i showered up and went out to dinner in Yantai with Kjetil. We both had a T-bone steak..first time in 2 months since i had a steak. It was amazing. Then we stayed the night at the Bath house relaxing from a long hard week.





Saturday


Woke up, washed up, and got breakfast at McDs...first time pancakes in 2 months.


Then walked to walmart shopping center. Took a look at the tea shop and took a picture of the different pots when i was take a picture of the tea the lady stopped me and said i cant take pictures.


Kjetil and i went to tattoo shop since Kjetil, Mattche, and i want to get a tattoo of our chinese name. He didnt understand what we wanted to get done when i told him name. Since i went to my caligraphy class i knew how to draw out zi Long, so i got a pen, drew Zi Long out in characters and showed him thats the name i want. He understood me then. I was quiet impressed with myself that i can write Chinese characters! Kjetil will bring a picture with his name written down along with Matt. we decided to do it on Christmas since we have a couple weeks off for the holidays so we wont train and be sore. I wont say more about my design of my tattoo. Ill let that be a surprise for your christmas day. Communicating with the tattoo artist was easy. He does not speak English but we showed him Dec. 25 and asked if we can do it then and he said yes. Bargined the price of the tattoo down a bit and discussed colors. We are so excited to get our tattoos done. This will be Kjetil's and Matt's first tattoo. I showed the tattoo artist my tattoo i already had and he looked at it and said i should make it bigger. I laughed and said i will think about it.


After we left the shop we met up with gram, aldo, mario and luigi, and Daniel. We went to the bookshop, weapon shop, and the Dvd shop. I bought about 10 DVDs there. only 6 yuan each. I bought movies like Clash of the Titans, Sherlockholmes, KungFu Panda, and few other favorites of mine. Once we all met back at the taxi, we went to Jusco for dinner. We ate at a Japanese resturant...first time i had Japanese food in 2 months. We sat by the window and all the local chinese people would walk by starring at us through the window. i said, "I feel like we are in a fish tank." after eating we walked around shopped a bit and Gram and I got some good donutes at the bakery.


Had a pretty fatty day today but we earned it...well thats what gram and i keep telling ourselves. Then we came home and now im exhuasted. I have to clean up and do laundry tomorrow but thank god its only Sunday.


Goodnight


-Scott