The break has begun!

On Wednesday Shifu spontaneously gave us an extra week and a half of break time so we are officially off now. yay.

My mom is checking into changing our flight home so we'll have another 5 days or so in Canada. If that works out we'll be super happy to head home early, if not, we plan to go spend several days in the city of Xi'an and see a bunch of historically significant sights as well as rest and eat some tasty meals. Either way we'll have a great time. It seems so bizarre that such a long awaited break has started unexpectedly early.

I woke up with a cold yesterday and spent almost the entire day in bed but I'm feeling better already. Hopefully this means I won't get sick on the way home like I did last year, though I suspect that was due to eating something that didn't agree with me and not a virus.

Well I may be incommunicado for a few days next week depending on our flights but should be back into the swing of things shortly thereafter.

It's December!

The break is getting closer and closer and I continue to get more excited. I'm really looking forward to going home again this year.

I don't really have a lot to say other than that. Last night we got an impromptu lesson from Shifu about internal alchemy. Really cool. Of course we won't start to practice that stuff for a long time yet, it was just the theory. He also talked about how skipping the physical training at the beginning and starting with the spiritual stuff was dangerous. It could even make you go crazy. Good incentive to be patient, not that I have another master to learn it from anyway.

Well, until next week....