Back to the lab again

I've been spending a lot of time back in the white/yellow belt class as of late. I car pool with a friend of mine who recently started kung fu and I help out in class while I am there often teaching small groups of students. I've come to realize something from this and that is that I have forgotten a lot of stuff since that class. Not going to the beginner classes has been an opportunity to keep up on my basics that I had been missing out on for a long time. As well attending I had been missing out on opportunities to work on teaching and leadership skills.

Side note the Chinese New Years celebration is coming up with weekend and I have taken on filming it this year which I am pretty excited for.

Living in cars

Since the start of the new year I have put on a total of 2341.6 km on my car. Needless to say I feel like I have been living in my car lately. Aside from work everything I need to get to is a minimum round trip of about 100km. Fortunately even though I am car bound I still can achieve a lot while commuting by being creative. I can go over forms in my mind as well as work on learning mandarin. Though I wish I didn't have to spend so much of time in the car I have been forced to make it work for my life.

Good endings for new beginings

Last week I was presented a great opportunity to end my year in the UBBT with an act of kindness. My girlfriends aunt and uncle were helping friends of theirs renovate and move into a new house they had bought in a very short amount of time. One month to be precise, well 17 days if you include Christmas. Long story short Chelsey and I were called upon to help move the family over night when the wife spiral fractured her ankle. Even though it meant I missed out on going snowboarding and was moving boxed and furniture until about 2 am, the sense of gratitude from the family was worth it and it was really great way to end off my year.