Last week it rained....and rained, and rained. I usually like rain at home but here it's really annoying because it last like a week sometimes! We also have to train inside which is pretty boring due to lack of space. I honestly don't remember many details from the week, it's a bit of a blur. We sparred one day and did rolls and throwing another day. Nobody got hurt so that means it was a success as far as I'm concerned.

We're almost finished learning our bagua form and that's cool. We learned the seventh part yesterday so only one more to go. This is definitely one of the coolest forms I've ever learned. I can't wait until I'm actually good at it! haha. I think that usually takes a while so I'll have to be patient and keep practicing.

I saw some flowers blooming today. I hope that means spring is finally here. The weather has been so changeable lately.

This past week has been a pretty good one. Our meditation room is finished so we've been meditating again in the evenings. I think everyone is quite happy about it. I also reached a milestone for stretching. At the beginning of every class we stretch. One of the stretches we do involves putting one leg up on a railing and doing a forward bend, bringing our head as close to our foot as possible while pulling the foot in. I've been doing this stretch for 2 years now and it's always been extremely difficult and painful but I kept trying and pushing myself and I finally did it! I touched my head to my toe, on both sides! Some people can do this one in a few months but for me it's very challenging so achieving it felt SO good. It really made my day, no, my week.

We also started getting up early to practice qigong in the morning. Still not going for our run first so we get to sleep in until 5:50 am. yahoo!

I don't have much to say about this last week. I think we're all getting used to the current schedule and lack of meditation, though we're still anxiously awaiting the completion of the renovations. It rained a lot last week and we had to train inside which can get pretty boring and cramped. Other than that nothing really new is going on. I finally finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo (a Christmas gift) and I'd recommend it. At 117 chapters it'd definitely NOT a quick read but it is a really interesting story about revenge and forgiveness. I liked it and thought it was well written. Being here has really changed my literary tastes. I have been reading a lot more classics. At home I usually read non-fiction but here I'm more interested in a well written story.

Well hopefully I'll have more to report next week.