On Monday we trained in the castle, but it wasn't too intensive. We wrote a test in Chinese class which was a strange experience. In the evening we didn't train just went for a walk to the castle, during this time it snowed a bit but it had gotten too warm and the snow had melted again. I also decided not to eat meat for this entire weak just to see the difference.
Tuesday 6th April all students went for a walk around the lake which was melting and made all kinds of cracking and creaking noises.
This Wednesday the training was still the same boring stuff as usual and I just practiced my new form and Umit (Norway) helped me with the slap kick I need to do. In the evening I did some Chinese homework with Chris (Scotland).
8 April, this morning there was a 30km/h wind but I went running anyway and did all the stairs in one go without stopping. In the morning out shifu told us he would be away for 3 days because I had to go home and visit his grandmother which has had been in a car accident. I felt sorry for him however I have been a bit irritated with his training methods. Firstly he doesn't push us as hard as the old shifu and he seems rather superficial not really paying much attention to individual training and just tells everyone they are progressing really well. I prefer to hear that my forms look terrible and that I am too slow because that way I learn better. I feel like changing to Sanda but I probably wont right now. Strange enough that day my shifu asked me if something was wrong because haven't been happy the past few weeks, so I told him that I was unhappy with the training, he said he would improve it when he gets back.
On Friday we had a different shifu teaching us and I was satisfied with the training, in the afternoon we watched the kids practising for a performance.
In the afternoon the replacement LCD arrived for Josh Netbook so I replaced it and he was overjoyed. The new student Alex had cracked the LCD on his camera on his journey to china and asked me if I could repair it. On Saturday I ordered a replacement LCD which was actually rather difficult to find.
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