Week 19 (10 May - 16 May)

A new week and a new day however Rahul looked really unhappy at line up this morning and he was wearing a pear of padded jeans for training ?! I don't think so, I think he was prepared for the inevitable gooning he was going to receive for the death threats. Rahul was lucky he had prepared for the gooning because the shifu lashed out 20 hard blows, unfortuantely I was too far away from the action to get any candid video footage.

Tuesday morning I saw my first snake since I'm here which was quite exciting. Because it was the 11th of the month it was test day and I had to present the shoalin group had to present the group form, JT Quan and I had to perform Qi Xing Quan (seven animal fist). The performance was pretty average but I was satisfied.

On wednesday we trained on the stairs, we had to do the usual, sprints, hops, jumps and bear crawls. I twisted my ankle in the process but continued training anyway. Chinese class was rather annoying as the new girl Jackie is really annoying. She says things out loud like "my handwriting has improved", tells the teacher "that letter Q you wrote is really big", "there is a spelling mistake there... just kidding" I asked her to please be quiet. She isn't even supposed to be in that class because she is a beginner so she should be in the beginners class bothering other students. Later that afternoon we started learning a new group form, JT goon and I started learning a new fist form, shaolin quan.

By friday my ankle was swollen and my knee was cramping again so I took the morning off and watched the others get tortured on the stairs.