Spring 2024 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!
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Entry #6: 12 July 2019 Last Day of Camp

Today I'm still exhausted, but there was too much to get done for me to be able to focus on that. One member of our group had to drive up to New York, and another had to suddenly leave after lunch due to one of his roommates going missing (he found her later in the afternoon but couldn't make it back to camp). Now our group went from 11 people to 8, and today is the "big clean." I had to beat out the rugs in the dining hall because the sand and grass gets everywhere, and I was told to use the mop sticks outside to do so. One of them ended up breaking. I must've been hitting the rugs harder than I thought. directly afterward I had to take a shower as I was covered in water (from other people cleaning rubber mats), dirt from the rug, and sweat from beating rugs in hot & humid weather (as it's rained at some point every day this week) and then we had a group picture and went out to eat. Once we got back we upheld the tradition of having a night swim, though this one was different in that every couple minutes, horse flies were attacking somebody.

Entry #7: 13 July 2019: Return Trip
Entry #5: 11 July 2019 Skit Night