Jumping at the woodside.
I sent an email to Gary, my Shorinji Kempo Sensei, asking about information on the International Taikai this October. When I woke up he had responded. And there was a lot of information. After my first 5th grade class, I looked it over and replied. It looks as though its going to be an expensive trip in Japan. Its very expensive to do anything in that country apparently. I am gonna have to figure out my game plan for what I will do there and where to go. It looks as though we would be flying in on October 6th and the first 1.5 weeks would be spent doing Shorinji Kempo stuff and a bit of sightseeing with the group. After that, I will pretty much be on my own. I will use that time to travel around, visiting other Shorinji Kempo Dojos and Jeff and Mitch. I will make my way into Saitama, by Tokyo and Yokohama and meet up with Rumi since she lives over that way. Then I plan to fly out back to the USA about November 2nd. Be home in time for my brother's birthday.
After my two uneventful 5th Grade classes I spent time doing things of no real consequence. After the lunch period, I had those two 6th Grade classes that I despise. They were fine today. No problems. I then had kindergarten with a new assitant, Wing. She is the girl I mentioned before, Toby's Stalker. She is kinda young, from Harbin, and her english is good, but hard to understand a bit, the reason for that is she doesn't speak loud enuff. So, I couldn't understant anything she said while I was dealing with the 12 class of 6-7 year olds. I was trying to teach them Seasons, its hard to do when you don't have much material. I don't know how to make a game out of it either.
Chinese lessons were canceled because Lisa was taking Daisy and her grandmother to the train station to see them off. They are heading out to Shanghai/Suzhou today. Yesterday, Lisa gave me their contact info in Shanghai/Suzhou. That would be cool if we could meet up with them out there.
I went to Gong Fu practice today and I just practiced on my own as the others just played the instruments. They are practicing for something. This is the most activity i have seen of them since the Chinese New Year's celebration. I was working hard and I was watching out for my knee as well. Sifu just did some corrections of my forms. He didn't show me anything new yet. I mentioned that there was a little 7-8 year old girl that started coming and has for the past couple weeks. I was watching Sifu teach her stuff. Little kids doing gong fu rules! They got great energy and they rock out. The best kids I have seen practicing were at the Shaolin School in Las Vegas. There were about 20-30 kids out on that mat just busting out. So cool.
After practice I headed home. Chatted with my bro a bit. He picked up the DVDs yesterday. Everything was there. Awesome. Hopefully they are shipped out soon. Got a response from Gary. i am tired. Hard work out. Sleep well suckaz.
Its been raining for the past couple daze, on and off.