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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Journal 2- Me on progress, school, poetry, and being athletic/coordinated

So, a week has passed. And I have done mostly nothing. I'm dissapointed in myself. But, I'm going to black belt class and sparring class tommorow and that's going to bring my stats up, which cheers me up. If only a little. My mother and I went shopping for school supplies. I got new colored pencils and I was so excited about using them (I like drawing) that I unpacked them and have drawn a few masterpieces, created by moi. My drawings used up a lot of the colored pencils, so now they are like a centimeter shorter from sharpening and using them. I've thought what I will be like after the black belt cycle. Like, TOUGH , READY TO TAKE ON ANYTHING, SUPER ATHLETIC, TOTALLY NOT CLUMSY!! Don't get me wrong, I do like sports, (I love water sports like rafting and kayaking because I'm actually good at them). But under that exterior, I will still, and always will be, a clumsy notcoordinated notathletic definetlynotcool harrypotterobsessednerd. This is the only thing I know I won't totally mess up. I'm a good writer (I think?) so it will be really easy for me to do this. I know that some people hate writing or always have writers block or stuff, but I'm just thankful I can do at least one thing right. There are also some writers who write beautifully too. One time in class we read this amazing poem- okay, look, I don't read poetry that often, but I know a good poem when I see one- by Maya Angelou, I think? Yeah. She wrote this amazing poem called Caged Bird, here it is:     Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

Are you done reading it? Isn't it so pretty? Call me a nerd if you want, it's beautiful. Gonna try to do a hundred pushups and sit ups to make me feel better about my horrible stats. At least it'll make a small dent in the 10,000 that we have to do. I bet it's easier for some people to do this. I see all these people who are SUPER ATHLETIC, ACTUALLY COORDINATED,  DOES HARROWING TASKS WITH EASE. I have just one question. HOW???!! how do you navigate all these without a SINGLE BEAD OF SWEAT???!!! I swear it's magic. Or maybe it's just me who's below standards. Most likely, it's me. 

-Ritika

Also, it says this post is scheduled. I don't know what that means and I tried to fix it, but I don't have a clue how to do it. Somebody help me?

 

Sweat:
A Normal Day