Week 10 (8 March - 11 March)

On Monday the sun was rising much earlier than usual, so I went to the training hall earlier than usual and Master Liu showed me some other Qi gong stances, I could really feel something, whether is was qi or just elevated blood flow it felt really good. That evening crazy Rahul (India) asked me to help repair the xBox he bought from Josh it wasn't reading any discs so I tried the latest Microsoft firmware update which didn't help so I ended up opening it up and saw that the actual laser on the DVD drive was faulty, I told him I could order one or he could have it repaired in Siping.

The rest of the week wasn't too strenuous, we just kept practising our forms for the test day on Thursday. In the meantime I had also spoken to the headmaster and told him that Nirup and I wanted to take at least two weeks off. Originally I didn't want to take any time off from training but I just felt that I needed to get out and see something new before I go insane. The headmaster said that because we never miss training we can go as long as we come back.

Warming up for the performance

Thursday (11th) was test day and I performed my forms, they were pretty average thanks to the cold I was very stiff and tense which made me look like robo cop and the loose uniform made things worse. It might have just been the fact that I was excited about going away and seeing some more of china and also see if the rest of Chinese people were all this grumpy and if they also farted, burped and spat as much.