I'm very cold.

It snowed here this week for 2 days or so and it's been very cold the whole week. We had an epic snowball fight 2 days ago with almost every student in the school participating, it was a lot of fun. Other than that I've been spending all my time either training or snuggling my hot water bottle under a blanket desperately trying to stay warm. Compared to a Canadian winter this is nothing but living in big buildings with no heat and missing windows in every hallway makes it way more challenging. Luckily a short term student who was leaving sold me a brand new down sleeping bag for super cheap a few weeks ago so at least I'm warm when I'm sleeping at night. I also bring it with me to meditation and it helps a lot. We meditate in a cold, dark room for an hour and a half or so almost every night and it gets pretty chilly when you're sitting perfectly still.

On the plus side my class finished learning Xuan Gong Chuan II this week and started on Xuan Gong Chuan III already. By the time we go on our Christmas break we'll be almost half done our set curriculum for this year which puts us ahead of schedule...sweet! Who knows what awesome extra stuff we'll get to do! I'm really looking forward to learning the broadsword form which we'll probably start around March or April. It is definitely one of the coolest broadsord forms I've seen in my short lifetime.

So I'm just training, trying to keep warm, looking forward to coming home in about a month and digging in to some western food and enjoying the indoor heating!