Sometimes I really don't know what to write. Certain weeks are pretty eventful and others are just kind of business as usual.

We learned a whole form this week. A relatively short little empty hand form. Everyone is really good at it already, and when I mentioned that to Shifu he agreed. We discussed how the quality of ones basics really show when doing forms. If you have good stances and kicks and are well coordinated, it makes all the difference. You can know a form backwards and forwards but if your basics are lacking it'll still look terrible. On the other hand if you practice your basics hard every day, you can learn to do any movement well.

I'm starting to feel more comfortable and at home here. I can tell partly because of my dreams. Up until recently most of my dreams still took place back home with people from my old life but in the past couple weeks that's started to change. An interesting one the other night was a combination of new and old. I was working at Planet Organic again and needed to get something from the deli but was unsure if I was allowed to go behind their counter. I was hesitating and someone told me that Shifu said it was alright to go back there if we had to grab something and no staff were around. I actually woke up and started laughing, that struck me as pretty funny.

Well, that's about it for this round. Maybe I'll have some awesome story to tell next time.