Candidate Journals

Today I went to school and did a benchmark for social studies. When I came home we started cleaning the house for family that's coming in for the black belt testing, can't wait for the over night testing and the regular testing.

Tonight I went to all 3 classes. Went over a lot of material for the test Friday night. I am nervous but ready. Can't wait!!!

It was the last morning of camp today and I can't wait to go back sometime. I woke up at 8 o'clock and started packing, once we all finished packing we went to have breakfast and then we got ready to leave. When we got dropped off, I went to eat with a friend and then me and my dad headed home to relax the rest of the day.

Today was fun, we woke up and went to a big field and we had to spread out to do meditation, afterwards we got with a partner to sticks and single stick forms. Then we went down to breakfast and had French toast sticks with sausage and once everyone was done we went into the woods to do a couple of courses about trust. Later Grand master Lee came, it was awesome we went over forms and there new changes and did hapkito forms 1 and 2. We rounded up the day with smores and a little free time to do whatever activities we wanted to do with our partners.

Today at school went by fast , we didn't do much besides read and watch channel one news. Right now I'm still only way to the camp for our black belt retreat, can't wait until we get there.

Today was a relaxing kind of day, at school we had a benchmark that was pretty easy and the rest of the day was just catching up on work. When I came home my relaxing day continued, I also didn't go to tkd today.

Today at tkd I sparred my friend Julia before class started, it was lots of fun. Once class started we did some sparring drills with chest guards, we worked on cut kicks and head shots. It was really fun can't wait for another sparring class.

My first class back since the tornament, it was good to be back it felt like forever. Today I helped for two classes and toke the last class, which was black belt class. We worked on our forms and hapkido, it was a really fun class.

Today I woke up and had pizza with my mom, Aunt Dana and Uncle Dave, we went to Brixx Wood fire pizza for breakfast, I'm really going to miss them. Since my Aunt and Uncle left to go back to Ohio, me and my mom went back home and rested the rest of the day.

The AAU tornament was awesome, I did the form division and the Olympic sparring division. In the form division I went against two 2nd degree black belts. In the first round for forms I did kuemgam and came in first the second time I came in second, so overall I came in second. In the sparring division I only sparred one girl and got second, but I had lots of fun sparring. 

Today at school it was a half day, yay! It was a some what relaxing day, I didn't go to taekwondo but I did some pull ups to try and get them out of the way, I almost got everything done. Tomorrow is the coaching class and I can't wait to go!

Today at school we had the Nickes 4 neighbors and the 8th grade had come in first, Yay!!! Also we started a fundraiser, selling tumblers. In class I took the first two classes and left afterwards, I got a Pmaa and some requirements in.

I wanted to get some requirements done before school today but I woke up late. I did manage to get a few poom saes in though. Tonight I helped with the 2 open classes and took the weekday black belt class.

Today was the 5K, congratulations to everyone that finished! At first when my dad and I where looking for the 5K we got lost, we also got lost when we were on our home. After the 5K I went to class in Charlotte, I took the black belt and up class and the sparring class, I got extra practice on the Hapkido 1-10, yay! For the rest of the day I went to Tyler's house and played Monopoly with my Dad and Tyler's Dad and Grand pa.    

Today we had to wear our favorite superhero and I chose to wear batman! I helped all classes and Master Shin helped me with my forms, self-defense, and hapkito. Can't wait for the Aau tornament and the upcoming 5K!

I finished my push ups today, yay!! At school we had a pep rally, it was pretty cool, we had alot to cheer about. After school I didn't feel so good so I didn't get to make it to taekwondo.

At school today we had to wear our favorite team for any sport. I helped two classes and took one class today at taekwondo, I got alot of progress on what I need to know for the over night testing.

This week is spirit week, today we had to dress country style. At taekwondo for red and up class we worked on Bolo form, Bo-staff and poomsaes. I also helped for one class, had lots of fun.

It was a great test today, I think everyone did a amazing job, congratulations to everyone for completing and making it through! Can't wait to finish all my requirements, it will give me time to focus on the new corrections in the poom saes and all the events coming up soon like the 5k, black belt retreat and the Aau tornament.

Can't wait until Saturday, it's going to be awesome. Today was all open classes, I took one because it's exercise week and I wanted to get a Sparing class. Tonight I ran again with Tyler, while it was raining a little and it was cold. I'm almost done with all my requirements , Yay!!

We had a half day at school today, it was awesome when I came home I went to work on the last essay I needed then went to TKD. I took the first class then helped with the rest, It was fun to work with everyone and their exercises.

I went to all classes today, I helped for two and took the red and up class. Its after testing so we have a exercise week, it's lots of to workout and watch others get to do the exercises also. I can't wait for next testing!

Today I'm doing my empathy and now I'm typing this with my left hand. My mom woke me up this morning to do my empathy, she wrapped my arm and made a sling to put around my neck. It was hard to eat a pop tart with one arm, at least trying to open it without making a mess, later today we went to the store, I had to push the cart around without running into anything and put stuff into the cart. Tomorrow I will write my essay.

Today I spent 3 hours at the Do jang working on requirements with Tyler, we got alot done. It was raining all day so spent the rest of the day relaxing. Hope to work out again sometime, it was great!

Today I got requirements done at the open 5:00-6:00 class and had lots of fun working on kicks, poomsae's, and self-defense with everyone that had showed up. I also went running with my friend Tyler.

Today was the testing for striped belts. Everyone did great! Congratulations Leah on getting your Bocho!!!!!

Woke up early did some requirements before school. Tonight I helped with solid belt testing. Good job everyone!!!

I helped for all of the classes and then did the black belt class, we got a lot of requirements done.

This morning I went to the doctor's office and after that I went home to get ready for class. I went to all classes, taking only one, the rest I helped with.

Went to all classes to help today, had lots of fun and got some Of the Requirements out of the way.

Tonight we worked on bow staff forms in pmaa. It was fun but I need to work on twirling. Badly lol

Tonight in black belt class we got a LOT of requirements in. It was fun doing them with everyone and helping each out..

Today I got up early as usual to do requirements then after school I went to two classes and helped them both and got both leadership credits.

My day went like this: I slept in, got two essays done. I took a break from requirements today and watched Television for the rest of the day.

My day went like this: I slept in, got two essays done. I took a break from requirements today and watched Television for the rest of the day.

My day went like this: I slept in, got two essays done. I took a break from requirements today and watched Television for the rest of the day.

I finished everything early this morning.Then went to black belt class and sparring class and got more requirements. After class we went to my favorite store Trader Joe's!

Today's friday!! Yay!!! Had a pretty good day. Did a lot of requirements today after school. Feeling tired tonight. Can't wait for tomorrow's Saturday black belt class and sparring class!

My legs are sore from yesterdays class at 4:30. I didn't feel sore then but today it definitely begun to hurt. Helping all the class was fun and I also got some requirements in while i was helping with all the classes.

At Taekwondo I took two classes and helped for one. The 4:30 class was sparring and the 5:30 class was PMAA. The last class was my favorite because we had alot of the new students there.

Today was the same as any other day I woke up early this morning and did requirements, then I had to go to school after school I came home and went to do 3 classes at Taekwondo. Plus I did more requirements and got a mentor session.

Woke up and did some requirements then I went back to doing essays for a while. I also went to the store with my parents, we went to Trader Joe's and they had really interesting foods there.

I spent most of the day working on my essays. I also went to the store with my dad and found these really cool water bottles that looked kinda like soad cans that had came in pink owls, blue anchors,grey camouflage, and many Coca~Cola designs, they were really cool! I also did other requirements.

I got a lot of requirements done before school today. Had fun at school today. Learned a lot. Helped out with classes today. We had a lot of new students. It was awesome. After I went out to dinner with my mom :)

Woke up early again to get some requirements done before school. Had a lot of math homework to do when I got home but I still managed to make it to all 3 classes. I took the red belt and higher sparring class and the Pmaa class, helped with the last class.

I went to the dentist this morning. Had a numb mouth the rest of the day lol Trying to eat and drink was weird. After school I did some homework and worked on some requirements. Tonight I went to all 3 classes and had a mentor session.

I woke up early this morning to do requirements and got some of it done. After my requirements I went to school, after school I went straight to Tae kwon do and did all 3 classes including some more requirements! ☺

Today I mostly spent the day on requirements. I ran with Tyler at the park this morning. When i got home I worked on the rest of my requirements. When I finished those I started writing the essay on the history of Kwans.

Today was the pretest, Yay! It was tiring but so worth it. Doing the pretest today gave you the feel that the cycle has actually begun and how much you need to reach when the acual test is here.

Today was exciting! I went to Tae kwon do today at 5:00 and did requirements for the cycle with Leah, Master Shin and his kids, Kenny, Julia and Jeran. It was fun to work on my stuff with others! :)

I woke up late this morning so I didn't get a chance to get that many requirements done before school. Tonight I went to all 3 classes including Pmaa. Master Shin tortured us with stretches tonight..... Ouch. But it was fun.

I woke up late this morning so I didn't get a chance to get that many requirements done before school. Tonight I went to all 3 classes including Pmaa. Master Shin tortured us with stretches tonight..... Ouch. But it was fun.

My first journal entry this cycle!!!! It's been a busy week this week with school and the black belt cycle both starting. I kicked off the cycle with Master Hama's Sparring seminar. Had a BLAST and learned a lot. Today I woke up early to get requirements in before school. I helped with the 430 and 530 classes and got leadership credits. I took the black belt class and got a Mentor session in.

Today I watched movies most the day with my parents and rode my bike, and I flew a kite with my friend catherine. I had a little bit of fun today being able to hang out with my family and friends.

I went to the saturday black belt class in charrlotte for the last weekend black belt class and it was fun and I learned theres not going to be a lock in. plus the self-defence is from walking stance instead of a front stance.

Friday!!! So happy is it the sort of the weekend! Today was fun because at school they have certian classes that let you have a free time at the end or do something really fun like a game or something with a friend for the whole class.awesome!!

In my math class we were doing plickers and it was really fun game then in sience we worked on computers and then in lang. Arts we were reading. It was a good day.

I had a good day, I did a test but it was actualy fun because it was easy and small and then played a class game to test our knowleadge. Plus we did mostly reading in lang. Arts and I love reading.

I went to the park today with my friend to work on tae kwon do, run, and sparring. We had fun, when we were done we played a little bit of soccer and talked for a while then went home to eat dinner.

I had my black belt yard sale today to raise money and it was fun I dont' remenber how much we raised but it was alot. WE also had some baking goods for sale for anyone who was buying some stuff or wanted just the brownies, and cookies. but above all we all had fun.

In class today at belmont I stayed for two classes the first class was ok but the second class was awesome because we had a huge class and ... NEW STUDENTS!!!! I love to help out with the new students because they don't know anything like the poomsaes,blocks, or kicks so its fun to teach them the stuff they want to know. It was fun teaching the two new students they really really liked to learn the stuff I was teaching them.

today at school I had a subsitute teacher in math so we did not get any homework yay! I also went to two classes today in belmont and worked on poomsaes and falls/rolls it was cool, I also got to teach run a little bit of the second class because it was small.

I came home today did my homework and toke my dogs out. Once I was done with that I had to read before I went to tkd to get a mentor session, and The mentor session we worked on hapkito form 1 and sticks it was awesome!!!!!

I had a AWESOME day. I went to the park with my TKD friends and did some sparring and running, plus poomsaes. For the rest of the time there we played tag or was swining.

I had fun today I went to sparring class in belmont and then helped some people get rid of some stuff they did not want. I came home and toke a shower,ate, and spent the rest of the day with my family.

I'am sooooo close to my birthday because its tomorrow, can't wait! today in school was fun because in math we learned something easy, in science we did a work sheet and a small quiz, And in ELA we did some reading and a activity. Awesome!!!

I can't what till friday because it is my birthday september 19th and thats when I am a year older :) ! Today at school we were finishing up all the 9/11 things in most of our classes its really sad what happened! But other than that I can't wait till my birthday!!!!!!!

today Master Shin was at the beach resort for training so at sparring it was a pretty small class, we had a total of 10 people show besides that we made it a very good class we also were sweating like crazy so when I came home I did requirements and took a shower. :)

today was a normal school day that would be on fridays we toke tests and played games that would be on a computer or reading the whole day in different classes. My favorite class is GYM because your not sitting all the time and your up and running.

I had school today and it was cool. I learned about the 9/11 which was the planes that were trying to hit the twin towers the pentagon and the white house, it was really sad, and scary i wished it had never happened.

since all of the color belts testing at belmont we have exercise week and I was very sweaty when I came home. I finally got all my mentee sesions done today and im so excited!!!

today at school was the living wax musem and we would dress up as someone that made a difference in our world and I was elizabeth cady stanton so it went the 6th graders would come and touch the sticker(button) on our hand and we would give a speech about our lives and what we were famous for and I was famous for ending the women suffrage and slave suffrage, It was awesome!!!! Also at black belt class today in belmont we worked on self defence and then we got to try and break bricks!!

today I went to a mentor session and a sparring class that got me a lot of requirements done. I came home after the classes and took a shower becuse Master Shin made us work out with kicks and sparring and i was sweaty :)

so its the second week of school and it is pretty cool .today I got a mentee and a mentor sessions done yay! I cant wait to help out with testing wedsday and thursday for the color belts! Its going to be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was simple I woke up, did some requirements, mowed my lawn and spent the rest of the day with my family and some friends.

today was a relaxing day because of no school. I got some requirements done and spent the rest of my day with my family. :P

Tuesday is going to be a busy day becuase of school and TKD plus my late bus. I had a fun day at school today I now have 4 teachers instead of 3 so I have to do more travling around the school ... awesome!!!!!! :P

i was very sweaty at the pre-test yesterday and did not get to go to the flea market. So this morning me and my dad went to the flea market and got a case for his phone. When we got home my grandmother did a ASL challenge and picked me to do it too so I was wet and cold. GGGGGGOOOOOOO ASL!!!!!!

today was fun, I worked on every thing I would do in the pre-test and studyed my study guide.I went to 1 class in belmont today and got a mentor session during the black belt class.yay! I also got all my hyper classes done! :)

yesterday all black belt cycle people from belmont did a parents night out mini olmpics and had a total of 14 kids show up.Everyone had lots of fun that night and everybody listened to us so it was easy and FUN!

I had a mostly relaxing day because I got alot of stuff done in the morning and finished early this afternoon.I went to 2 classes in belmont then came home to enter in all my requirements. (:

I went to all three classes in belmont and had tons of fun even in the black belt class, doing flips\rolls with the mats and bags with Master Shin. :)

A dull day today it rained almost all day.Above all I still got all requirements done even my running.Then I hanged out with my friend and spent time with my family the rest of the day. ;) :)

Today was a simple day, I got up early to do my requirments and studyed my vocabulary.Then spent the rest of the day cleaning, reading and hanging with my family. :)

Woke up around 6am today and started on my requirements. I am trying to get as many done as I can before school starts in a couple of weeks. I finished 3 of my essays this week so I am excited about that.

Woke up early today to work on a few of my essays. Then I worked on my requirements. I have been trying to do a few more everyday. Tonight I went to all 3 classes got a leadership credit. In black belt class we did a lot of extra requirements. I am so tired tonight.

Today I went to class in belmont and took two classes then went to charlotte at 7:30 and took a class with Master Shin :) Also got all my basic kick requirements finished. I am excited about that.

I went to class today already done with my requirments so I got extra requirments in class.Master Shin did a hyper class so everybody took that class even the instructors and did lots of falls and rolls. :)

My 2nd day doing the white belt challenge and everybody thinks I got put back to white belt because I was bad :p .In class today I helped 2 classes and took the 6:30 Black Belt class and worked on palegwe il, and yi forms and got extra push ups and sit ups in. ;)

This past sunday I did empathy being mute now I understand what its like not really be able to communcating with words.Instead you had to use paper or signing with your hands.Today was fun becuase master shin came back from vacation and we did falls and rolls. :) ;)

Today I went to north charlotte for hyper pro, black belt class, and sparring today.It was a lot of fun to see different instructors teach a different class.I got a little bit of requirements done in those classes and later today I finished them.

Today was my first full day back from vacation. I didn't get a lot done when I was gone. I went to all 3 classes today. We had wacky Wednesday with Miss Pam. I got A LOT of requirements in. Between classes I had a Mentee session. We worked on front rolls.

Woke up a little early today. I wanted to get my requirements out of the way so I could finish getting ready to go out of town. It's going to be hard but I am going to try and get some requirements done while we are gone. I hope everyone has a great weekend :)

Worked on my requirements most of the morning. Went to class a little early to have a mentee session. We worked on Red belt self-Defense and poom sae. Took the red belt and higher class. I learned the Pal Gwe Yi form. Then I helped out the next class. Tonight I am going to start packing to go on vacation this weekend.

Today I went to 3 classes. Hyper Pro, Black belt and sparring. I was pretty tired after but I came home and did a little more. Spent the rest of the day hanging out with friends.

Today I woke up to start my running requirement. After my running I was tired so I relaxed for a little while and then finished my requirements at the end of the day. :)

Happy 4th of July Everyone!!! Worked on my requirements early so I could have fun and spend time with family the rest of the day and watch fireworks tonight :)

This week has been a pretty busy week. I got to spend time with my cousin from Texas. We had a lot of fun. Today I worked on my requirements in the morning and then went to all 3 classes. Got a few more requirements done in class. Had a lot fun :)

Today was a busy day. Did my running requirements after breakfast then went to 3 classes in Charlotte. Had fun and got some requirements in. When I got home I spent time with family.

Today I was feeling tired. I worked on one of my essays today and some of requirements. Went to both classes and earned a leadership credit and did my first Mentee session. When I got home I was feeling better so I worked on more of my requirements.