Candidate Journals

Today I woke up and did some pages of the Grit Workbook. Then I got ready and I went to my friends house. Then I came back home and went to the mosque, a place where I pray. Then once I got back home I had another class, then I went to King Tiger for class. Then I went home and then went to Walmart with my entire family to shop for school supplies. From there, we went to Pizza Hut for dinner.

​Today was a great end to the workweek. Took the kiddos to the park—it was warm out, but the cloud cover and occasional breeze kept it pleasant.​I took black belt class this afternoon and learned some new material that I definitely need to practice. Afterward, I went to dinner with my dad, sister, brother-in-law, niece, and nephew.​Planning on waking up early tomorrow to get a few miles in before class, hopefully with my son if he wants to join. My knee is pretty sore from sparring yesterday and sports a nice bruise, so hopefully the run goes smoothly. Looking forward to seeing everyone in the morning!

Today I practiced my poomsaes and self defenses early today so the rest of the day I could chill until sparring. I streamed for a couple hours and talked to my friends. I had a bunch of late night laughs with my best friend from 4th grade talking about sports, and the gym. At sparring I tried to go light because my toe was bruised but I still pushed myself to try and improve.

hellooooo, pretty decent day today. i did all my requirements really early. i had to go to work at 2:00 but only had to stay until 3:30 because it was a training recap day for all the new people. my boss got us cake and snacks it was a lot of fun. i went to sparring class after and we did this drill where our hips are on the floor and we have to jump and kick idek. i know my hips are gonna be so bruised tomorrow. after class i got dinner and then my family and i went to target to get school supplies. pretty late to be getting them but we had absolutely noooooo time before. anyways know im gonna watch a movie!!

I was pretty productive today. I ran 2 miles in the morning and did my requirements. Usually I jump rope after running but today I decided to do it before and see if that changed anything. It was a good idea because it warmed up my calves before running so my legs didn't really hurt that much. I took a nap in the afternoon and then I went to black belt class and sparring class. Master Foster had us do some different stretches for warm ups and some of them really worked so I might use those more often. After class I came home and went to play volleyball but everyone was already mostly wrapping up so I didn't get to do much. 

Today I slept in a bit woke up and got ready to do my mile run. Today thought as I was running a little on the road close to my house there was a little rabbit that had gotten squashed by a car. I felt really bad for it since it died but I also got to see my first ever rabbit heart and organs. They were pretty disgusting thought and the smell the one of the worst smells I've ever smelled. Also since this stink was right by my house and right on the path I run it made me feel weird so it was a bit harder to run my mile taking me some more time. After that I got to stay home alone since my dad went out so I made the most of it. I got a soda and some snacks and gobbled it up hehe. It...

Summer camp is winding down. Said goodbye to a few of our campers and even some of our counselors who are going back to school next week. I will miss their faces. Incredibly sore today in my legs, especially my hamstrings, I am going to stretch out some before bed.  Last night in sparring class I did get to see what the bottom of Evan's foot looked like, up close to my face😂. He had tremendous control over his side kick, beautiful kick. Fun sparring partner for sure! Another late workout after sparring with Peyton last night, going to miss these after the cycle is over...not being exhausted so much and sweaty but a good training partner makes it all a little easier.

Happy Friday! I procrastinated getting going this morning for a run but once I was out, it felt good. Took a shower and knocked out the rest of my requirements. If I could give any advice about black belt cycle, it would be to get your essays done early and work ahead on requirements. In my experience, getting your essays done before school starts and getting a couple days ahead on requirements is super beneficial because it allows you a little bit of breathing room in case you get sick, miss a day, or just aren't feeling it. Weeks 5-8 are the most challenging becuase all the super physical requirements are at its max and it gets pretty difficult even if you miss 1 day. Anyways, the rest of the afternoon was fine. Black belt class was a nice review of the 10 takeways. I came home to arguably the best...

Today I woke up started to do some time on my electronic.Then started warming up before class then i accidentally forgot my gear for tea kwon doe sparring class.So I borrowed some gear from the extra gear master foster left in the corner. Before I did sparring I did the black belt class and some of the drills was plank holding which I enjoyed doing things for my core and helps me with my black belt cycle. Lastly i did sparring which is  part of my black belt cycle training helped me realized the more I practice, the more the skills i can work on. That was my day.

Went to work early today and finished my leadership credits for the cycle. I'm working on getting my mentee sessions in, but other than that I'm on track. Black belt class was good, but I was super hungry the whole time, we did the 10 breakaways and practiced them to make sure we had them down. Tomorrow is the last day I work for a while cause school is starting back up soon, I hope that all of you guys are doing well and getting all of your requirements in on time! Goodnight!

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful day, today was busy for me because I was working a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM shift at work. I still had a good day because I love my job. Me and my brother went to Black Belt Class and worked on some breakaways, it was cool. Then we went home, ate some dinner and chilled for the rest of the day. I hope everyone had a wonderful day, and I wish you all well, see you later.

today I visited with my nephew, and after that I got all my requirements done there’s a pretty short and easy day.

Went to sparring practice tonight, and I have to say there's been a noticeable improvement between weeks 1 and 3.  The students are moving their feet and sliding a lot better, and everyone's stamina is improving, probably because Master Foster has us constantly moving and switching partners the entire time we're on the mat.  At the rate they're improving, I almost dread to see what they're going to look like at the end of week 10!

I woke up today and wanted to go on a five-mile walk, but I got a huge migraine again, so I decided to cut it short at three miles. After I got home, I worked on some of my requirements and went to my school to help my dad set up his classroom. When I got home, I finished up my requirements and went to dinner with my family. Overall, today was okay. I hope everyone had a great day. Goodnight!

I woke up and finished my summer reading book today. I'm surprised with how fast I finished, I think I only started the book about 5 days ago. Soon after, I did my requirements for the day. Later I went to King tiger for black belt class and then after class I was able to get a mentor session. I can't wait for the fall because the mosquitos have been insane this summer. Every time I go outside to practice my creative form, I feel like I am being eaten alive. Anyway, my evening was not to eventful, I just relaxed for the rest of the night after class.

Today I attended black belt class and was able to practice my kicks and kicking combination to be more faster and constant, also I was able to get credit for leading warmups. Today we also sparred, Sparring today made me more active, made me practice how to go on offense and defense, after that I was able to teach my mentee his next  belt rank pomsae and what to expect for his next belt.

Today I was able to complete both the black belt weekend class and sparring class. I had a severe ache on my lower spinal area and was not able to do my best in class and had to skip sparring in sparring class. Still I was able to finish black belt class and the drills in sparring class.

I had a really good day. I woke up ate breakfast and went to King Tiger camp. My Mom picked me up early for dinner and I went to Master Evins school for sparring class. The class was hard work and I’m tired. I know I will sleep good tonight. 

Today was pretty good because I woke up and I went to the gym for a little while getting everything finished for the week. Later I came home and drew for hours while my mom worked in the office, Hours later we went to this art place so I could finish my ceramic that I did, while figuring out what todo next. I came home and clean my room, kitchen table, my lunchbox. I just finished and about to call my friends to say hi. I hope everyone had a perfect day!

Didn't do much today. I worked on a map I'm creating and I got one of my friends to test it with me. But he was just goofing off. After we got done, I printed a controller holder, which was neat. Knocked out my requirements and now I'm headed to my grandpa's for the night. 

I woke up and ran two miles and did everything times 2 and I got a decaf latte and ate some lunch.

OK, I guess it is August :-) Steady working out, lots of kicks, walking and poomse. Hopefully good rehab for my achilles. Getting ready to mow the lawn today, and planning for my Grandson's birthday this weekend.

One more day at Dallas, I had a good sleep and woke up late, ate my breakfast and played with my cousins. I tried to run a mile outside but it was too hot, so I stretched inside and also did push ups, and tried pull up’s and other workouts. Then I went out to eat lunch with my family  to a Chinese restaurant the food was great -and we had a great time. I also tried boba teas then we went to Ross for shopping and bought some clothes for school. Excited to try them out for first day of school. From there we went to one more cousin’s house for dinner… I met my cousins and played with them and ate delicious dinner with Theo family - I had a blast playing with my little cousin Wafa, he is very cute and friendly. Overall I had a great day! Learned...

Today was a longggg day. In the morning i had a dmv appointment to get my learners permit and me and my dad had to keep leaving and coming back to get some random papers we didn’t know we needed to have. But eventually i tested and i passed!! After that i had some lunch and went to band camp. I didn’t know i could get take the school piccolo home so today i did. I definitely need some practice on certain songs. I came back at 5:30 ish and took a small break to chill. Then I had to go to tkd to get some leadership credits in and a mentor session.  Straight after I had to head to the gym to complete my run and some remaining requirements. I hate running on the treadmill so I ran outside near the gym and when i came back i finished my...

Today I was tired for most of the day. I drank a gallon of water though, and ran a mile and a half. It was super hot outside all day, but exercises needed to be done, so I finished in the heat. I finished one essay, and I'm getting prepped for more of them. At work today, I helped a lot in class, got more leadership and assistance, I think I have about 10 each now cause I'm there so often during cycle like we all should be. Sparring class was alright, I almost kicked Mrs. Jenn in the face doing a turning side kick, it was close, but controlled. good day, but also a tired day, goodnight!

Today I woke up at 5 and started writing lyrics that just came to my mind because I figured it would be good to just write them I'll get better at hearing a beat, catching a vibe from it, and start writing then. I ate a bowl of cereal then started adding progress to me and my friend's song. we're still making the beat itself but I have an idea of my first verse already. I called Willow and started up stream and just played UFL while talking with her because I just started streaming so I don't get many viewers so it would be weird just talking to no one. After that stream I hung up and cooked some eggs and then I went to have a Mentee session with Matteo. After that I walked around for a while then went home. I finished all my requirements and then I...

hello everyone. today i went to school in the morning to pick up my parking pass. it still hasn't hit me that i'll have to go back next week. after that i went to the dentist and they did some stuff and now my face has been swollen for the whole day. everytime i try to move my body my cheeks start hurting...? no correlation? because of this i skipped the exercise parts of the requirements. i still did my poomsae and self defense practice. i have a few minutes banked from previous days but i'll have to add a few minutes to my requirements tommorrow to get back on track. thats all for today though. 

Hey guys today was my schools open house, and the I thought I was some smart guy last semester picking 6 AP classes and 2 community college classes. I don't know what I was thinking but its all good i guess! And when I went to open house I met all the new rising freshman coming into highschool some were like tiny as expected but then some, good god were like TALL I thought they were seniors, for record Im a junior and I was pretty surprised.

Aug 6 Early morning went for my mile run. Was very foggy. It really did help though, as I would normaly feel heated from running, the fog felt like it helped me cool down. When I was done, I took a shower then went out to a local red cross group meeting, to help a blood drive and help volunteer for the needy. I felt so good seeing people smile and thanking me and my group.

Happy Thursday! Got to sleep in some today, woke up and banged out my requirements. Relaxed a little before work. Summer camp and classes were fine, not much different than it normally is. Sparring was pretty fun. We did a couple cool drills today that were definitely challenging. Overall a good class but I think I will have a couple bruises tomorrow. Stayed afterwards until about 9:30p.m., working with Ms. Jen on our creatives and black belt poomsaes for August 15 testing. Its kind of just hitting me how close it is. I will definitely be psyching myself out over the next 9 days but I think I'm ready....for the most part. Keep up the great work everyone! ~ Peyton

hellooooo guys, today was pretty chill. i did all my requirements in the morning and then worked a bit more on my apps. i had a shift until 7 and straight from there i went to my open house. i'm actually really mad because my counselor messed up my schedule so bad but she always does that so i'm not surprised. i'm gonna have to go and talk it all out once school starts to get the classes i want. from open house i went to dance class until 8:45 and it was really fun with all my friends. i'm gonna watch a movie and then go to sleep, goodnight!!

Today was a good day. Went to work this morning like usual, and arrived to find it was still hot—the AC guys hadn't been by the school yet. The little kiddos went to Urban Air today. Once we got all the kids, I helped move Group 2 from the pool over to King Tiger, then picked up the kids from Urban Air and hung out at Enzo for about an hour. Later, I set up a rotation with three different activity stations where the kids switched every 10 minutes. It worked out great and made the time fly by. Big shout-out to Audrey for being an awesome counselor—she’s always on top of what the kids enjoy and what they're capable of doing. Working with her makes managing the day with the little ones so easy. After a few more shuttle runs moving kids around, I wrapped up the workday. Christian and...

Today was my sisters birthday, she turned 13 so now she's officially a teenager. Her birthday party was at Big Air which is a trampoline park and it was pretty fun. After her birthday party I had my "birthday party" (my birthday is in a week but this was the only time my friends could all hang out). We did a scooby doo themed escape room and we escaped with 4 minutes remaining. After that we went to a mall nearby. Overall today was a busy but fun day. On another note, requirements are going good but getting a little boring. I tried doing different variations of push ups today which was fun. Does anyone know about the Sportacus push ups from lazy town? Thats what I felt like I was doing, but obviously im not as good as him. 

Today was pretty good, I slept in and when I woke up I did my requirements like usual. I practiced my creative form some, just trying to get everything to muscle memory. Later in the day, I went to sparring class which was good. After class I had a mentee session. When I came home, my legs became very sore, not just the muscles but my shin bones. The rest of the night, I tried to stay off of my feet as much as possible in order to rest and promote recovery.

Today I woke up earlier than usual then drank some milk and ran my mile I got a bit of a higher time with 10 secs more than yesterday. After I completed my requirements then. After that I started a quest to watch all the marvel movies so I watched the first Spider-Man movie which was really good. After that I got prepared for my Open House for school. It was good seeing my friends again after a long break and meeting my new teachers and classmates. Although I didn't get in classes with any of my friends but 2... I was dissapointed but that meant that I had to make new ones. Anyways after that I headed to the class before sparring and helped out teaching a student chil jang which was fun. Right after I attended sparring which was fun and we did this drill where we lined up...

Hello guys. I’m about to do my 24 no tech hours. Gonna start and end at 10pm. I’m a little nervous but also excited for that. Feels like running a social experiment on myself. I think I forgot to journal yesterday. I’ll double up sometime. Oh also, the leg was indeed not nothing. I’ve been training on a sprained ankle. Which is wild. I have a brace to wear tho, with that and modifying requirements as much as I can I think I’ll be fine. I also have sparring tomorrow, that’ll be interesting now. I’ll just do what I can. Hope u guys are doing well.

I woke up at 5:00am this morning to take my daughter to the airport to catch a flight.  I was wearing a t-shirt with my high school's name on it.  As I was walking out of the airport, with all those travelers in it, I heard someone yell, "Hey! You went to Westover?!"  In that split second, I just started laughing.  I graduated in 1981 and she graduated in 2016.  What are the odds of me seeing someone from my high school in Charlotte, NC?  Westover High School is located in Albany, GA, which is about 425 miles from Charlotte in Southwest Georgia, about 90 miles north of Tallahassee.  Like the Disney song says, it's a small world after all. As for tonight's classes, I've noticed that ever since the week of July 18th, we have been getting a lot of new members at our dojang.  I've welcomed 4 new people...

Today I woke up and immediately started doing so pages of the Grit Workbook. After this I played soccer for a bit with my friends. Then I got ready for my open house at Hickory Ridge Middle School. Once me, my dad, and sister went I saw a lot of my friends. Then we went to my sisters open house at the High School. Then once we got home I did my daily requirements.

Today, I didn't really feel good. I woke up with a huge migraine, so I didn't really do much. I got all of my requirements done except for the running. I had to run to the bank to drop something off, and that was basically my day. So today was not great, but sometimes you have off days, anyways I hope everyone had an amazing day. Goodnight!

I woke up and ate breakfast and went to King Tiger summer camp. I learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube finally. I ran my mile with Instructor Evan today.  I had a good day at camp and then went to early dinner before sparring class. I think I did good in sparring class but there are a few things I can work on. 

Today was okay but kinda good, first thing is I woke up and went to the gym for an hour then me and my mom went home to clean a little while my mom was finishing her work for that hour. After that I reread through and changed some words in my history of the kwans essay for alittle bit while she finished up, soon after I cleaned some more until dinner was ready so I took a break for an hour and a half, I took a shower than took me and my mom to go take the dog for a drive since she doesnt like walks. After that I cleaned a little more than just chilled on my phone for at least right now. I hope everyone had a beautiful day!

I started my day normaly finished my daily requierments at noon .Then after lunch went to a friends house to have a sleepover and came home the next day.

    I am very excited today I’m going on a cruise. I’m currently staying at a local hotel in Norfolk Virginia and woke up at 7 AM to complete my exercises for the day so I can have unlimited fun on the cruise. I feel it might be difficult keeping up with things on the cruise, but I know I can do it. anyways, good morning.

Been spending a lot of time on my poomse.

Having not done them regularly in over a year, I have lots of gaps and merging of poomse.

Have gotten through all of the color belt forms and self defense.

Got Koryo, Guemgang, and Taebaek down. Been working on Sip

I fell asleep very early i was wiped out after workouts and I didn’t get my journal done so I’m doing it now. I had a good day and I helped out with class and took sparring class.

Hello everyone, I'm disappointed in myself because I haven't written my journals for the last two days, so I'm doing it earlier today. I have had a good past 2 days, I've been working and chilling, I went for a run at planet fitness. Mostly what has happened has just been the same thing, start my work shift at 12:00, end it at 7:30 PM. It's been good doing exercises, but I want to get back into weightlifting again because I haven't been doing that for a while. But anyways, I hope you all have an amazing day today, and goodbye.

Today was a crazy day! Today I woke up ran my mile and did my physical work in the hot hot summer heat! Then I ate egg and played a board game with my family. After me and my cousins played Sara and sita and then we just played Roblox and watched yt. After I thought we were going to get ready but apparently not. After that we then got ready to go to a family friends house for dinner. They had such cute cats and kitties! Unfortunately I’m allergic and got a reaction to the kittens but the cat is a hyper alagenic cat so it was fine for me to go around that one. Anyways I went home with red sore eyes but maged to practice a little taekwondo. And went to bed.

Yesterday was pretty chill in class. we learned about locks and how to get out of some grabs. other than that, i worked with my mentee today and that was pretty fun. she's really funny so it's never boring mentoring her. im just really excited for the weekend.

When I got home from work I went in my backyard to check on "Peaches."  That's the name of the peach tree that Master Jason planted for his 4th Dan.  She is huge and beautiful and crazy but no peaches so far. I am thinking about planting a peach tree when the time comes...most peach trees are self-pollinating but who knows.  We all need some help from our fellow students and testers from time to time. Help with self-defenses, our poomsaes, ideas, workout partners, critical eyes, knowledge for the written test.  Maybe Peaches needs some help too. Which reminds me--FIND THE ANSWERS AND START STUDYING FOR THE WRITTEN TEST. Have your answers checked, be sure that you are studying the correct answers and don't use Google. My advice for the night. Have an excellent Thursday and I'll see some of you in sparring class!

​Today was a good day. I was with the little kids today, and it went really well. Audrey does a great job with the group. I set them up for crafts later in the afternoon while she ran games for Game Show Day. The kids made masks out of paper plates today, and I think they really enjoyed it—a lot of them walked up and put them over their faces to show their parents. ​I did a little bit of driving today, but not much since Reena came back on a very quick turnaround. ​After work, I came home to follow up on some personal stuff, then hit the road for a 3-mile run. It felt good, especially after the 5-miler I did the other day. Came back home for a few more requirements, a shower, some dinner, and a movie with the wifey. 72 Hours is pretty funny. ​Hopefully, good...

This morning I woke up, then I did some pages of the grit workbook, ate breakfast, then went outside and played with my friends. Then later, I ran my mile with my friend. After that I went to King Tiger Tae Kwon Do for class. Then I came back home and did my daily requirements.

I woke up today and went on a run. I think I still prefer to run at night because the whole day after my run I felt a bit more tired than usual. After I was all settled from my run, I completed the rest of the daily requirements. I played chess for a while in the afternoon; I haven't played chess in a minute and it was fun playing a few games today. This evening I worked on my creative form and some of the skills that go along with it. My legs are pretty sore so I am looking forward to a good nights rest.

Today my throat was bugging me a bit, so I drank a ton of water today. I got all my requirements for the day done early in the morning, so I watched some tv. I went to work and my throat just kept on bugging me to the point where I couldn't teach for very long because my throat would dry up and I would start coughing and stuff. Even though it was a little bit difficult, today was a good day. Goodnight!

hi guys. today i woke up early and went to the gym with my dad. after that i came home and made lunch for my family. after that i did some summer assignment for ap physics. by the time i finished it was time to go to tkd. i helped out with the senior tiger and junior tiger class today, took black belt class, and had a mentor session with master weeks. after i went to whataburger with my family. i have never tried it before but they opened a new location right next to my house. my parents NEVER let us eat out so i take my chances. after that i came home and continued working on my summer assignment...which looks like it is not getting done...like ever

On my very first black belt cycle in 2020, Master Lloyd was my mentor.--This was back when it was Covid and we had to do Saturday morning black belt classes outside, wearing masks, in Grandmaster Evins' parking lot (uphill may I add).--I was doing a mentor session and Master Lloyd told me something that still sticks with me to this day. "Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent." If you do something wrong in a poomsae, self-defesense, kick, whatever it is and you keep doing it incorrectly, it will make a bad habit. Bad habits are hard to break and I'm sure you'll find 1 if not many that you have throughout the cycle. Whether its not rechambering correctly, kicking the wrong way, doing the wrong move in a poomsae 100 times, it doesn't matter...but if you practice it the right way, with the intention of doing things correctly, regardless of...

Today I had to walk my two miles instead of running it because I twisted my ankle. I streamed today with one of my oldest friends and I also made progress on a song me and one of my best friends from 5th grade started making. The funnest part of my day was when I went to Tae Kwon Do  and especially Black Belt Class. I learned a lot from that class and practicing my Bocho Dan one step and special was fun as well. I haven't seen him in a while. I did see him randomly one class just watching but I haven't taken a class where he was involved in a while. I have a lot to practice but I know it's possible with time.

Today, I woke up early again and completed my mile run and today felt very good since I got my first Sub 10 getting 9:52 my best timed run yet. i was pretty happy and got my requirements completed quickly after that my dad and I went to run errands again today. After that I finished this puzzle I was doing and then headed to my robotics class I signed up for. After it I stayed back played soccer with my friends then got back home. It was pretty late so I ate dinner, watched a movie with my family then went to sleep.

Today I woke up early at like 7:30 and ran my mile which felt better giving me a time of 10:11 the lowest of the week. After that I did my requirements and also attempted to do a 1 hand push-up which I instantly failed in 2 seconds. After I went with my dad to run some errands. Then I starting gaming for a bit with my new monitor I got. After I ate dinner and slept.

Today i didn't do much since I was pretty tired from going to party's for the past 2 days. Anyways I woke up at 9 in the morning and and ran my mile getting 10:27 a bit longer than the last two days. After that I did my daily requirements and that's all I pretty much did today.

Today I was busy. I had to go to the dentist and then after that I went to go get a haircut. Then I helped out with some classes and took the high belt class. After that I came home I finished my requirements and played volleyball, a lot of people came to volleyball today so it was pretty fun. 

hellooooo, today i worked on polishing up my essay for apps and making sure everything was good. i think im ALMOST at a final draft so im excited to finish it. after lunch i finished up my requirements. i went to bbc in the evening and we worked a lot on our poomsaes and self defenses. i just ate dinner and my family and i are about to have a game night!!

Today I ran a quick mile near 8 minutes. Which showed improvement for my mile outdoors. But today during weekday black belt class I had a severe shock and had to leave class halfway. I done some excersizes And stretched so my pain is not as bad , but it is still unbearably painful.

Today was pretty fun, so when I woke in the morning and I went to go see about my essays which I dont really need a lot. Later we went to this place for breakfast which was amazing, after that me and my dad stayed home and took a nap, after a few hours it was around 12pm so we both got ready to go see a movie for like 2 hours and 33 minutes or something. Right after this movie I went to taekwondo for sparring class and got my book signed. I just ate dinner and chilling right now but I already did my other requirments but, I hope everyone had a wonderful day!

Today, I went on a walk and went down to the turtle's house that I'm babysitting for. When I got home, I did the rest of my requirements and had to do some laundry. Since school is starting in a few weeks, I wanted to have a clean room, so I went through all of my clothes and got rid of a lot of them. Then my sister had to go to the eye doctor, and she asked me to go with her, so of course I went. After that, I went to taekwondo and got to help with the shin kickers class, which is by far my favorite class, and the sparring and sparring prep class. I got to take the sparring class, and it was a lot of fun, but somehow kids just keep getting hurt. But overall, today was a pretty great day. I hope everyone also had...

I decided to change up my workout routine a little bit today.  In addition to the push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, etc. (which can get monotonous, but they have to be done) I decided to attend a yoga class at the Y.  I get in enough strength training, which targets power and durability, and running and elliptical work, which targets endurance, but, as I get older, I feel the need to focus more on flexibility, joint health and recovery.  That's where the yoga comes in.  I'll be attending these classes at least until the end of the cycle.

I woke up and ate breakfast and went to camp at King Tiger. We had a great day swimming. I went to Master Evins’ school tonight to make up a black belt class. It was a great class and I definitely want to go back. I had a lot of fun. Thank you to Master Evins for allowing me to come. 

Hey guys, today I went shopping with my mom to get stuff for school, we went to the mall and then had lunch outside, then came home and fell asleep. Then at my gym at home I ran on the treadmill and completed requirements.

Hey guys, I woke up pretty late and headed out to go to an indoor court to play volleyball and run practices there. At the indoor court spent about a hour running and completing requirements, then headed home, around 7 had regular tkd class and went home around 8:30.

Today was my second day of camping as we were planing to leave at 11.00.Then ate brunch and went home .I took some rest then completed my requirements for today.

Today was the first day I went camping with a few of my friends their we set up camp then went on to have fun. Later i found some time to do few of my phisycal requierments.At night we did some smores and went to bed.

I was doing my physical requierments in the morning ,then went to attend my cousins graduation celebration.where we stayed until late at night.

I woke up ate some cereal and ran two miles I got home did the rest of my requirements and got a shower. I then did my grit and ate some lunch.

    Today I'm starting my trip to our cruise. My mom booked us a lovely cruise and today we are not boarding the ship but we are going to the hotel. It is quiet a long drive however I can do this. I cant wait to have fun a on the cruise. However there is no wifi so I will disapear for 3 days. Anyways I am very exited and can't wait to get on the ship.

Today started rough but ended a lot better. I also realized today, after being at the dojo for a few hours, it’s starting to feel like a second home in a way. I think I’m getting more in the rhythm of knowing the curriculum, starting to teach it, (and just being there all the freaking time lol). One thing I put in my applying tkd to life essay was, it’s helped to make me comfortable with discomfort. Having been in all the different more scary classes/situations recently, it keeps feeling lighter to walk in there. Like, I used to be nervous for every color belt class. Now it’s more like, oh finally just a color belt class! It’s wild haha. Anyways I got a solid workout, solid essay session and classes, then watched some family guy and now going to bed. Goodnight guys

Today was a busy day, first me and my cousins woke up and made pancakes and honestly they were not good…At all. But after me and my cousins watch this paranormal movie show. I love that show it’s so interesting. It talks about all these paranormal events. Like aliens,ghosts, monsters,spirits etc. After we went to a Majalis and I played with my baby cousin he’s so cute! And also stayed for a speech and lunch. After we went back home and just watched some random stuff then had to go to another Majalis. It’s was huge! We did the same thing except I got strawberry matcha! And also ate chicken nuggets with fries and fried chicken. After I went back home and did my physical work and ran my mile and practice my pomsae. And then got ready to go to bed!

Today i helped with our senior tiger class today. i helped the white belts and i really hope that i could be as encouraging to them as people were to me when i was a white belt. but i guess i have to turn in to them soon (for a week). im honestly really excited to see what happens when i turn into a white belt. that's all!!!

Today I had band camp in the morning. Not too much physical stuff today we were practing out songs a lot more. So far I’ve got one mostly memorized. I’m still not the biggest fan of the piccolo however. Playing is pretty fun at least when ur not doing it for realllyyy long. I’m excited to start marching while playing! Anyways, after I came back I took a small chill break before I had to go to tkd class to get some leadership credits in. I was also able to get a mentee session. During camp I was able to finish all my jump rope and sit up stuff and a 1.5 mile run but i still need more miles. I was gonna run after class but it was raining pretty heavily and it was dark and wet outside. Tomorrow we are moving my sister into her apartment where she’s staying...

Today I played outside with my friends then went swimming. I enjoyed swimming, although the rain made my day a little less pleasant. I came back home and played soccer for a bit, some guests came over.

Today felt pretty normal and nothing note worthy happened. I woke up at 8 which is late because I usually wake up early so I have more time to do fun stuff. I did my requirements and then I streamed again. After stream, I got ready for Tae Kwon Do and had a session with my mentee. After that I helped with 2 classes and led warmups for one of them. After that I took the 6:55 class and I was the highest belt that time. Most of the black belts weren’t there but one (who was Disha) helped and didn’t take class.

Long day. I slept hard last night after going back to KT and staying late with Peyton to work on our creative forms.  The good news is that I have  my form done!  Now it's gonna be what I am working on until the Greenville test.  I need to go through my board breaks with Master Marcus, sounds like an excellent mentor session to me😁  Game Show  Day for my bunch.  We tweak summer camp every year and this day is my favorite tweak... it's been a challenge to come up with new games for our groups and feel like we've found some really good ones. And invented some on the spot! Home to finish out my requirements after dinner was started. Then dinner, grabbing the last few things out of our closet, loading my car with things that I am dropping off at Goodwill after work tomorrow and after I...

This morning I worked really hard on some skills that will be in my creative form. Still super happy with the progress I am seeing. It is crazy that the schoolyear for some of us is less than 10 days away, I am so not looking forward to going back to school, summer always feels like it goes by too fast. Later in the day, I went over to King Tiger and while I was there I secured leadership credits and a mentee session. That wraps up my day.

Today was a good, busy day. It was pretty much nonstop driving from the moment I got to work: took one group of kids to the pool, another group to Urban Air (where I managed to capture some great action shots to upload), another trip back to the pool, and then brought kids back to King Tiger. After that, I picked up the remaining group from Urban Air to drop off at Enzo. During lunch, I grabbed a sandwich combo from Harris Teeter that came with a drink. I think it was actually the first time I've ever drank unsweet tea. Honestly? It was not good, but it did its job by keeping me under my daily sugar intake goal. The soda or high sugar drink challenge is still going strong—just dealing with small cravings here and there, but pushing through! One of the newer vehicles is acting really strange, so...

hi guys. today i had my sat prep class in the morning so i had to do my requirements in the afternoon instead. i also caught up on all my essays. i think i only have the community service and nutrition challenge left? good thing i knocked those out before school started. thats pretty much all for today...pretty uneventful...

Today I saw the new spiderman movie and it was really good. I also saw someone that goes to taekwondo there, its a small world I guess. Today I ran 2 miles. I really want to get my stamina up so I can run even longer. One of my friends runs a 5k everyday which I think is pretty impressive. I used to run with him and I think I'll start going on runs with him again after school starts, that will probably get me motivated to actually run after school. Running with someone is much better than running alone because its not boring. Also, I really need to get started on my essays before school starts because I know I'm going to procrastinate on those. I have a book on procrastination. Maybe I should read it... Later...

I was able to assist the Senior Tigers class tonight (ages 8-12) before attending my regular weekly class afterwards.  I enjoyed teaching them the basics (for example, why it's important to chamber before executing your kicks), teaching them how to properly tie their belts so they'd stop falling off during class, and helping them prepare for their next test, which will be held in September. I have to admit, their enthusiasm was infectious, so much so that I was able to carry that with me into my class.

hellooo, i did my requirements in the morning today. i'm really sore for some reason but i'm not sure why cuz i didn't do anything differently. i've been working on my apps for most of the day. THERE ARE SO MANY RANDOM QUESTIONS i feel like i'm never gonna get through the end of filling them all out. i've been asking all my older friends for advice and have been soaking everything up like a sponge so hopefully i'm doing stuff right. i had a shift in the in the evening and that went pretty well! im really tired so i'm gonna answer a few more questions on my apps and head to sleep. goodnight!!

I woke up and ran two miles and I got ready for tutoring and I went to the grocerie store with my dad for dinner and came home and ate then went to bed.

Today, I woke up and realized that I didn't finish some work for my class, so I had to hurry and finish it. I am also babysitting a turtle right now, so I went on a walk to go down there, and I'm trying to make it a point to walk 2 miles down and back. After I got home from that, I did the rest of my requirements and got changed because my dad, my brother, and I went to see The Odyssey (which was really good). When I got home, I had just enough time to get ready for taekwondo and head there. Tonight was really good. I got a mentee and a mentor session; I got to help take a small group back and help with their forms, and I got to do black belt class. So, overall, today was not bad. I hope everyone had a great...

When does the soreness go away? Today was good. I woke up and went to King Tiger camp. Urban Air was amazing as always. I did some of my requirements at KT and then did more when I got home. 

    Today was as normal. Get ready to go to King Tiger Summer camp. Today we enjoyed our time at Urban Air. I had lots of fun with Xavier and Jovi, however Jovi did get tripped on. However I hope he is doing well. After that we went back to the Dojang and my friend Xavier helped my finish my black belt cycle exercises. After I finished 4:45 class my grandma took me and my little sister out for Ice cream. When I got home I then ran a mile and had a good rest of my day.

Hey guys, its been a minute now, but I have been deadly sick but also did a few things around town. One day I was at my friends dance event which is called an Arangetram, then I had 3 birthday parties separated throughout these few days and I managed to fill all my requirements in and completed one more of my essays, from now on my journals will be consistent as I find myself irresponsible for not doing so. 

7  Today was very calm. We were on the way to Virginia as our first desination of the trip. It was so crammed in the back because we had to put extra luggage at our feet. I Mostly fell asleep for the 7 our drive. Once we got to the hotel, I did my tkd requirments. I was hard finding a spot for my poomse and running in an unfimiliar place.

6 Today was very boring. Today was the day we had to get packing. The whole day we were packing our bags to get to go on a big trip with some ouf our family friends. We packed for so long I barely had time for my tkd. as  a

5   Today was very fun. After my taekwondo requirments, I was very excited to go to a friends birthday. We went to the Concord Mills Mall and were having so much fun. We watched a movie that day too.

4 I woke up early for my morning run and then while running I saw a deer. The deer looked like it very young. when I went closer it ran away. I went back home after finishing and worked on my requirments.

3 Today was a good day. I woke up feeling very energized. I went early for a mile run today. Once I came back I was feeling as I need to work more on my poomse. I spent more time on the poomses and then did the rest of my requirments.

2 Today was a pretty boring day. I just did my tkd requirments then went around walking for enjoyment. When I came back, I went out with some friends then went back home.

today i got 2 out of 10 (i think) essays done. im going to start a new diet soon. i want my new diet to be getting more protein so im excited to see what that diet does to me. i also went to a black belt class today and did a lot of kicking. so it was a pretty chill day

Today, after eating breakfast I played soccer with my friends, then came back inside for lunch. After lunch I did my daily requirements. After this I went outside to play tennis. Then I went to Walmart to buy school supplies. Then I came back home and ran one mile.

Today was the first day of full band camp. It was from 8-5 and it was strenuous. We had to run 3 laps because 3 people came late. And it was so hot while we were marching. I’m still kinda getting used to piccolo. It was pretty fun but tiring for the most part. Once I came back I had a little snack before getting ready to go to my friends bday party. It was a small but fun party. Pretty packed day, goodnight!