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12/05/2005: "Snow day"
It snowed last night. Everyone woke up to the early morning training that consisted of... shoveling. Hoorah! Except it wasnt so much shoveling as it was pushing. Chinese shovels are made of a tree branch with a piece of old plywood nailed to the end. No one was allowed out of the mandatory shoveling, not even the old masters or the six year old girl who lives at the castle. A guy from my group claimed sickness as an excuse for sleeping instead of shoveling. I went to him and checked the integrity of his claim, and he showed no symptoms of anything. After an hour and a half of shoveling, everyone from my group questioned me about his whereabouts and i gave them the truth, "He is sleeping in today". This didnt make many people happy, so everyone grabbed a snowball or two and brought a camera to film his rude awakening. Shortly after amassing our army, we smothered him in snowballs while he lay in bed. He didnt quite understand what was going on at first, but eventually realized and screamed, "Get out!!!!" It was a spectacle.
My tiger fist wushu competition set is complete. It has many acrobatic moves including a front flip breakfall, multiple kick ups, butterfly kicks, a 540 kick, and a crazy rolling pounce attack among other things. I am quite satisfied with it, and i will post a video of it when i arrive in the phillipines.
Speaking of the phillipines, I am leaving on december the 16th for my flight on the 17th. I will arrive just in time for the western new years, and i will return to china on the 23rd of january, just in time for the chinese new years.
I am going to be purchasing a blackboard and chalk to practice my chinese characters. I am getting tired of paper and pen. Chalk is also more beautiful than thin pen ink.
Now i must go to view a chinese tv series on my laptop now, so until later, zai jien le!
Ron