What Color is Your Belt?

I had mentioned in a previous post that after 3 1/2 months, we were going for our yellow belts…
Well, all original members of the Jinjeop 5 passed the test… with flying colors.   And it was actually a bit more professionally conducted than I had imagined.
Sabumnim had to bring in an elder- a true, [...]

Seoulin’ it Down

The first half of our trip was so go-go-go, we decided to slow things down a bit for Dad’s second weekend here.  It wasn’t entirely by choice… we sort of just… didn’t have one. ;-p
You see, Dad’s last weekend here was Chuseok, Korea’s harvest day or Thanksgiving.  EVERYTHING was sold out- plane tickets to anywhere, [...]

Ouch

Tonight, we began breaking shingles and bricks in TKD class.  My hand is a bit cut up and quite swollen.  It hurts like hell.  We may have broken the shingles… but the brick broke our hands.
That is all.
:-p

Kowabunga, Dudes

So our Jinjup crew was one short tonight… Joe was sick.  But the rest of us kicked some ass and then had a pizza party after class with our Grandmaster.
He’s enjoying expanding his English vocabulary and we’re doing our best to hone our limited Korean skills.  We’ve pretty much got the counting down pat.
But tonight [...]

Korea Fighting!

Out with the old, in with the new.
Whenever I used to hear this expression, I thought of a new year beginning, full of new goals, the start of a new school semester, a whole new me.
These days, I still go to school.  But not as a student- as a teacher.  And when I hear an [...]