I apologize for not posting in such a long time. For some reason I can look at my blog but I can't always sign in. Ah China....
Things here have been really interesting. Our first week here I was incredibly sore. Pretty much my whole body was one big sore muscle. We work really hard here. Our warm up is usually an hour or two of kicks, stretching, stances, running up to the temple on some stone stairs, and some "internal" stuff like tai chi stuff and meditation. Then we work on forms for about an hour. That's one class and after lunch we do it again too! We also do Qigong and meditation for an hour each per day. it's pretty intense!
Now we're starting to get used to it and though we still get sore we can kick high again (for a while it was a struggle to get my leg waist height) and I'm picking up the form really well. It's kind of a cross between tai chi and a kung fu form. It's really cool! Next form i'm going to learn is a straight sword form that looks so cool! I'm super excited!
My training goals are going well. Some goals I'm getting ahead on and others I'm lagging a bit on. I figure that it'll even out in the end though and some of my goals are already done! Today I did 500 situps and we run every day so things like that I'm way ahead of the game on.
I really starting to miss my friends from home. It's quite tricky to stay in contact sometimes but I hope you all know that I miss you and think about you all the time.
Lots of love, hopefully I'll be able to post again soon.
