Not in the Christmas spirit.

I'm almost finished learning the sword form now and I've got my next form lined up to start right after that.

It's really strange being here at Christmas time. It just doesn't seem like It's only 5 days until Christmas. It hasn't snowed here and I don't see it happening anytime soon. The supermarket in the town here has Christmas decorations up though, it's kind of strange but I guess they have a lot of us foreigners as customers.

I'm missing my friends and family a lot too. My favorite part of the festive season is spending time with the people I love so I'm sad to be missing out on that and also really grateful that Melanie is here. I hope that everyone knows how much I love them and miss them. It makes me question whether I would be able to manage several years here away from my loved ones. I still bliss out on the training though. It's so amazing to practice kung fu all day. In class sometimes I just stop and look around and am blown away. Here I am in China, doing kung fu at an ancient temple ruins, outside in december in a sweatshirt. WOW