Finally Back to the Dojo

How I direly missed my black Dans, my other senseï and the disciplining of flow.

I sprained my ankle quite badly and had to give it at least six weeks rest. When I came back, I wasn't wearing the ankle support and hurt it again.

But finally, my foot is almost healed, my support always with me and my classes on my schedule again.

It was an overwhelming feeling to give up moving and sweating. I'm too used to it, would it be running through the workplace's corridor or cycling from a place to another. So having this time out made me appreciate just how much motion impacts my mood and gives me the 150% radioactivity level I'm used to.

And to think that I sprained my ankle for the first time in my life, not while trekking, hiking, cycling, fighting, strength building, burpeeing or running...But while walking in the morning with a clear head in the workplace.

In The Secret Room

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on rewatch.

We talked about our mutual admiration of Miyazaki's works, senseï and I. His favorite one is My Neighbor Totoro. Mine is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Senseï says we will watch Nausicaä or Whisper of the Heart during a lesson, Japanese with English subtitles.

I'm looking forward to that. Thank you senseï.

Once again, how can a senseï rock more? I give my immediate total seal of approval to people who nurture love towards FF VII or Miyazakis.

Stay gold Ponnyboy

Reading The Outsiders over again. When I'm not working, hanging out/studying at senseï's, hanging out at N.'s or going out with work colleagues of course.

Therefore, I thought the book along with Twig's trilogy might last during my whole stay in Canada but...

Oh well, nothing stays gold said Frost, and with me, it happens quickly.


Nature’s first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold. 
Her early leaf’s a flower; 
But only so an hour. 
Then leaf subsides to leaf. 
So Eden sank to grief, 
So dawn goes down to day. 
Nothing gold can stay.

---- Robert Frost

Introducing senseï

I think it's about time I write about a man I spend so many hours with every week.

Can my senseï rock more?

DUH! In fact, he does during our japanese lessons and long conversations. I adore this man to bits and just hope he will find everything he hopes for and acquire inner peace. He deserves so much goodness.

For now, senseï teaches in his japanese inspired office but I think he can teach using Skype as well. I hope someday he will bring his teaching to the next level.