Before I start todays blog I want to talk about about the chocolates I brought to China. I left America with few bags of Ghirideli Chocolate to give out as gifts. I gave Sam some chocolate when I first came here to be a nice roommate and to show I'm a nice guy. I gave one bag to Jenny, one of the translators who helped me when I was in the hospital. I even gave a few to my other classmates who've never been to America. I told them they have to try some American chocolate. During Halloween I gave some out to guys just for fun. I even had a bag out for Thanksgiving. I have about 3 bags left out of 6 bags of chocolate. I suggest if you want to make friends quick in a new place...bring some chocolate.
Tuesday
Woke up and went down to breakfast.
morning class was applications so I was excited to train. during warm ups Shifu gave Matt a chinese name. Last week I choose Zi Long, 子龙 after the Chinese general meaning I am very respectful,honest, loyal, and brave, as my chinese name. Matt wanted a chinese name as well. So this morning Matt choose his name. He picked Zi Lu, 子路 meaning Beautiful Jade. Master said our names are brothers which is funny because Matt and I train together a lot during sparring, applications, or just practicing forms together.
After applications we had acrobatics. After jumping around and doing take downs I didnt feel so good. I had no appitite at lunch. My stomach was killing me.
I had to go to afternoon class. about 6 people were out of class today because they were sick (and/or) they didnt want to do stance training. I had to go to class or else Master would think I'm weak. I made it through stance training without throwing up which I felt I cuold have done at any moment. After class I collasped in my room. I had no appitite for dinner. Sam was nice enough to get me a cup of noodles from downstairs and a can of sprite. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling a lot better.
Wednesday
I woke up feeling sick. I went down to Master Gou's office and told him I feel really sick and I will have to take the morning off. He said if I still don't feel good in the afternoon then don't do power training.
So I went back to my room and stayed in for training hoping I would be better by power training....unfortunetly it didn't happen.
I felt so sick I didnt even go to Lunch or Dinner. I just tried to rest and drank water.
Thursday
The weather is changing slowly but surely. There has been a bit less sun lately and more freezing winds. The windows have ice on them in the mornings which stays there until afternoon break. I have been waiting for the snow to fall. Last year the snow fell in November. Now we're in Decemeber and there is no snow. It feels so cold as if there could be snow. Many students are getting injured more badly ever since it got colder. Even the masters said be careful when training in the cold. My left ankle has been killing me for the past week. I have to buy myself an Ankle brace this weekend. My Right knee is starting to act up every once in a while as well. Training will get a lot harder now. I can't wait, this will be fun.
In the morning I felt a little better, I wanted to train. I can't handle being in bed all day for two days straight so I really wanted to train and today was circut training which I love.
circuit training was hard. I sweated a lot hoping that I will sweat out all the bad Qi in my body and get my blood flowing so I can recover faster. I dont know if that really helps but I felt better after training.
After lunch I relaxed until San Da training. I paired up with Gram and we worked the bags pretty hard. We also even did slap boxing for points. My reflexes are getting faster. I was going to start Spar training with X today but Andres is leaving so X and a few other guys are going to take him to the Airport to say Goodbye. I didnt mind since I still had a bit of a stomach ache so we will start next week. It's sad that Andres is leaving. He is one of the older students in the Wing Chun group. He said he is going home till May to make money then come back. He has been here for 8 months already.
Had an appitite for dinner which was a good sign and after I washed up and went to bed early so I am fully rested for the Friday mountain run.
Goodnight
-Scott
Woke up and went down to breakfast.
morning class was applications so I was excited to train. during warm ups Shifu gave Matt a chinese name. Last week I choose Zi Long, 子龙 after the Chinese general meaning I am very respectful,honest, loyal, and brave, as my chinese name. Matt wanted a chinese name as well. So this morning Matt choose his name. He picked Zi Lu, 子路 meaning Beautiful Jade. Master said our names are brothers which is funny because Matt and I train together a lot during sparring, applications, or just practicing forms together.
After applications we had acrobatics. After jumping around and doing take downs I didnt feel so good. I had no appitite at lunch. My stomach was killing me.
I had to go to afternoon class. about 6 people were out of class today because they were sick (and/or) they didnt want to do stance training. I had to go to class or else Master would think I'm weak. I made it through stance training without throwing up which I felt I cuold have done at any moment. After class I collasped in my room. I had no appitite for dinner. Sam was nice enough to get me a cup of noodles from downstairs and a can of sprite. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling a lot better.
Wednesday
I woke up feeling sick. I went down to Master Gou's office and told him I feel really sick and I will have to take the morning off. He said if I still don't feel good in the afternoon then don't do power training.
So I went back to my room and stayed in for training hoping I would be better by power training....unfortunetly it didn't happen.
I felt so sick I didnt even go to Lunch or Dinner. I just tried to rest and drank water.
Thursday
The weather is changing slowly but surely. There has been a bit less sun lately and more freezing winds. The windows have ice on them in the mornings which stays there until afternoon break. I have been waiting for the snow to fall. Last year the snow fell in November. Now we're in Decemeber and there is no snow. It feels so cold as if there could be snow. Many students are getting injured more badly ever since it got colder. Even the masters said be careful when training in the cold. My left ankle has been killing me for the past week. I have to buy myself an Ankle brace this weekend. My Right knee is starting to act up every once in a while as well. Training will get a lot harder now. I can't wait, this will be fun.
In the morning I felt a little better, I wanted to train. I can't handle being in bed all day for two days straight so I really wanted to train and today was circut training which I love.
circuit training was hard. I sweated a lot hoping that I will sweat out all the bad Qi in my body and get my blood flowing so I can recover faster. I dont know if that really helps but I felt better after training.
After lunch I relaxed until San Da training. I paired up with Gram and we worked the bags pretty hard. We also even did slap boxing for points. My reflexes are getting faster. I was going to start Spar training with X today but Andres is leaving so X and a few other guys are going to take him to the Airport to say Goodbye. I didnt mind since I still had a bit of a stomach ache so we will start next week. It's sad that Andres is leaving. He is one of the older students in the Wing Chun group. He said he is going home till May to make money then come back. He has been here for 8 months already.
Had an appitite for dinner which was a good sign and after I washed up and went to bed early so I am fully rested for the Friday mountain run.
Goodnight
-Scott
Ooh I wanna get some chocolate for traveling now haha but I thought you can't take food on a plane. Zi long cool how did you make your final decision? Are you getting sick because of the foreign diseases? Sounds like it's happening to a ltr of ppl all the time. Even if you don't have an appetite make sure you drink a lot if water and easy a little. Don't dwell on how you don't feel good when you're sick. You felt better cuz you weren't laying in bed thinking how you're sick. You gotta get out and move around when you're sick so you feel better faster
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