A Taekwon-do weekend

This weekend I had my Taekwon-do testing for a blue stripe on my green belt. A blue stripe is like a bridge between a green belt and a blue belt. I had to do patterns,step sparring,board braking and at the end, again some step sparring.

My belt pattern is Won Hyo; it was discovered by a monk who discovered Buddhism; it has 28 moves in it. I think the hardest move was a side kick with a punch while pivoting my other foot. I also did my junior pattern, Do San; it is another name for a Korean patriot and has 24 moves.

Then I did step sparring. I did three step sparring to do; my opponent did the attack first and I did the defense and then we swapped; I did the attack and my opponent did the defense. After step sparring i had to break a board. I did an elbow strike on a yellow board. I was so nervous and didn't use my whole body so I didn't break the board on the first two tries; when I broke the board I HIT MY FOREHEAD on the holder!

For sparring I fought a 9 year old boy and got hit in the stomach but I was brave and did not cry. A black belt named Miss Brandy got a kick to the face and fell on her back.

Today we went to our Taekwon -do end of the year party. I ate crackers,ham, salami, hot dog, brownie cup cake, and two cans of grape flavoured Crush. At the party Mr. Arden, my Sa Bum (master), was tickling me all the time.

I have two more days of school and I have a surprise for my classmates tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolute Dance recital weekend

Last weekend my dance studio had its dance recital. It was held at the Bella Theater in Mount Royal University and the theme was 'Canada'. There was three shows of ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop,glee, acro, and more.

I danced in the Junior show and did the opening number for the Teen show. My sister did the Primary and Teen shows, but watched mine and after I did the opening number I watched the Teen show too.

I was in seven dances and I was so surprised that I could do seven quick changes without being late! My mom was volunteering and helped me with my quick changes.

The teen dancers were so awesome. They were awesome because they did so many chest rolls and a lot of flips. A dancer named AJ accidentally forgot The Bounce in his dance.

My friend Charmaine said that in the Primary show there were a lot of little kids and Charmaine was a big giant dancing behind them. At the end of the Junior show we did a curtain call and when I went to watch the Teen show I was exhausted but happy.

Now we are doing boot camp to stay in shape over the summer.

In September we will have a NEW studio!!!!! I have heard the new studio will have trampoline floors!!!

Julia's Birthday Party

Today my classmate Julia had a birthday party. She became 8 years old.

It was at an indoor playground called Tree House. It took some time to get to the party. All my friends were there.

It was really fun. We had a bouncy house! I did a front flip on the bouncy house. Haotian was so surprised when I did that. She tried and landed on her belly! We also had a lot of slides!! 

We had pizza for lunch, sang "Happy Birthday" and had cake!!!  

Before the party, I went to my mom's school walk. Some of the teachers and students went walking. They walked for donations to help the poor people.

My mom and I could not walk because we had to get to the birthday party. But I got a new Maria Montessori t-shirt. Yay!