Master Guo is happier but we get kicked more... How did that happen?

Since Monday the 22nd of May, the Wing Chun class has gone from a huge 23 people in the class down to a reasonable 12. A lot of people left during the past couple weeks. There was a point where we had to line up outside the hall because there was to many people to fit in the small wing chun hall. Training has gone very well this week. Master Guo has been watching us closer now since he has a smaller group.


There are Pros and Cons to this situation. PROS: Master Guo is in a happier mood. I guess less stress now of not dealing with so many students. Master Guo can help correct us more. Master Guo even had time to explain the origens and whereabouts of a few technqies we learned. Oh and the time we have to hold the splits are less since he has less people to walk around pulling legs out. AWESOME!


CONS: We have to do extra drills since we are not waiting for the extra 11 others to finish. Master Guo comes around during conditioning to check if we are doing it correct, if not he "helps". If we slack during class we get kicked more. For example. On tuesday the 23rd we had to do Stance Training. since there are less people, he was able to keep an eye on ALL of us. If we were not low enough, legs werent straight enough, or hands werent high enough he would whip us with a branch he got from a near by tree. He had to keep getting new branches because he kept breaking them on Raven.

Back to monday. My roommate Ben left to go back to France. He was a great roommate. Sam moved in the same day. Time to start making new adventure stories with the roommates back together right?

Well Monday night was Kendra, a friend from the states, was going back home. She wanted to go to the resturant down the road because a few friends and i convinced her it was so she told everyone that her going away dinner was tonight. Turns out 17 people wanted to join us. The rooms down at the restuant could fit 7 people... but i told her we will see what we can do.




We all walked down to the resturant. The loby was small so i told everyone wait outside while i talk to the owner. I went inside and the guy knows me since me, jake, and ash come here a lot on weekends. i told him in chinese that we have 17 people and if that was ok. He told me we would have to split into seprate rooms. i went back outside and told the crew what the plan was. They agreed to go into two rooms. Before we went in he told me to look at this room in the back. It was a big room and looked like it could fit another table. We ended up getting another table and fiting all 17 people in one room.




The hard part wasnt over yet. everyone wanted to see the menu but there was only 1 in english. So after a lot of yelling and a few people snatching the menu from one another i got it and stood up and got everyone's attention. i told everyone what was on the menu then i asked who wanted rice. 12 people, i told the waiter in chinese 12 people, then i said who wanted noodles, then i told the waiter. I got a few dishes per table and i said we will start off with that. If anyone wanted something else wen all the food got here then they can but for now we had about 6 main dishes per table already. Kendra shot me a Thank you look and the evening went smooth from there.




Everyone was satisfied and was too full to order anything else. My job was not over yet...had to pay. I hunted down our waiter and told him we wanted the check. Finally when we paid, my job was done! everyone got back to the academy and a few of us ended up watching a movie before bed. It was a nice last night. I thought to myself, it will be extremely horrible when i have to have my last night here. But thats about 4 months and a half from now. Till that day, more adventures to go on.

-Scott