3.36

 Today was our second round of preliminary grading for Black Belt. This was the round that determined if we are going to grade or not this year. We'll find out what the results are later tonight, but I'm not really sure what's actually going to happen. If I get to grade this year, I'll be happy and I'll continue on with my training, but if I don't get to grade, I'll be a little bit disappointed but I'll still continue on with my training. One thing that is making me think I'm more likely to pass is that I feel like my forms have improved lots since the first round. On the other hand, my fitness doesn't feel much better, so I really have no idea what the outcome will be.

3.35

 Ever since I started going to the kids classes again, my confidence in my training has improved greatly. Before I started, I was questioning if I "deserved my spot" in class. (Blog 3.27) Since then, I started to see what my Kung Fu was like six years ago as an Orange Belt in the Level two Black Dragons class, compared to where it is now as a second degree Brown Belt in the level two Teens & Adults class. The amount of growth and improvement that has happened in that amount of time is surreal to me, seeing as Kung Fu has been in my life since I was two, and the change between two and ten is nowhere close to the change between ten and sixteen. I can't wait to see what kind of changes the next six or so years bring to my Kung Fu!

3.34

 Today my family went around some parts of Stony Plain and put up door hangers for Mayor Choy's re-election, and it took most of the day. There was around 11 volunteers, so there wasn't a lot of people to help us cover all of Stony Plain, so it took most of the day. I walked over 16 kilometers, which is about double the amount of kilometers I average in a day. I got to see lots of parts of Stony that I haven't seen before, so now I know the town just a little bit better. Reading the maps for which houses we were going to took almost all the map reading skills in my whole family, which made us slow down a bit to make sure we were in the right neighborhood. We didn't get to all the subdivisions, so we'll have to find some time to do that during the week. In the end, I'd have to say that was a pretty good and relaxing way to spend my last day as a 15 year old, as I turn 16 on Monday.