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!

Rohan Apte - Daily Journal 30 - 13020

Today was a good day. First I had school. I forgot to tell you that my dad is volunteering for camp thunderbird(3-day field trip)!!!!! And for AIG we are going to go to JA BisTown we found out are jobs today. I am the CEO of Albemarle foundation! P.S CEO = boss! After school I did some of my requirements. After doing requirements I went to sparring class. Lake Norman location. Lastly I had dinner. Right now I am going to bed. Hope you had a good day. BYE!!!!!!!!!!

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Thursday

It’s almost Friday, yay this week has been so long and I can’t wait to finally get to the weekend I have soccer practice and I can’t wait I’ve also been practicing all my drawing skills so now I can draw a perfect germ for Science class. (Don’t ask why it’s a germ) We also got to fill them out in the hallway today in the theme for a film with Stranger Things. It was so much fun

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1/30

Today was kinda tiring but I really enjoyed sparring class. My school work is starting to get tougher as we begin EOG prep and enter new topics. I have to study a bit more on scatterplots just to make sure I'm using the calculator correctly. I've been doing well on my requirements and I almost have all of my leadership 2s done. Have a good night everyone!

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Busy busy!

Busy past few days! Getting the rest of the trades in, security and cable/internet installed, and the rest of my furniture came today! My house has everything, just have to put it all together. These next few days is going to be a whirlwind! I am very tired, but I'm still keeping up with my requirements amazingly enough! I'm not going super hard core but I'm getting enough done per day. Sparring later tonight and I'm excited. 1 of my students is coming! Should be a good class. 

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Day 40!

Hey guys! I’m excited it’s almost the weekend yayayay!! I didn’t have much homework, so I was able to start on my requirements early. I’m going to TKD today to get come credits and classes in. Tomorrow at school we don’t have any tests or quizzes, meaning I don’t have to study for anything- yaya! Hope everyone is having a great Thursday so far! Bye!

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1/30

I found out yesterday that my school is closed for a week!  That is awesome news!  I have plenty of time to get my requirements in today.  I am not sure of the plan today, but I’m sure it will be something fun!  I have soccer practice and black belt class tonight.

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Journal - Day 40

Good morning. Yesterday was a good day. I had PE and finished all my physical requirements in school. Went to class and got my leadership credits and also my mentee session. Today is going to be a crazy day with classes straight from school. Have a good day.

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1/29/20 - Dege

Well, I made it to yoga class after work tonight and boy did I need that! Yoga is in my building after work, so it's easy to go back to work if I have things to finish up. When I got back from yoga, I realized my boss was still there. I knew I have things to prepare for her meetings tomorrow and figured I'd work on them, but didn't expect her to still be there. I ended up bringing work home to finish, so not much time for requirements, especially since I need to be at the office earlier than usual. Unfortunately as well, the normal stress relief effects from yoga tonight are long gone. Don't wish to know what I'd feel like if I hadn't gone. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little more requirements friendly.

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Wednesday

Well I didn’t meet my goal of journaling everyday in January which is a little disappointing. Other than that everything seems to be going well and on track. 3 more days and we will have 4 weeks in the books!!!

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Wednesday

Well I didn’t meet my goal if Journaling everyday in January which is disappointing. Had a good visit with my mom and sisters. Flew back today. Nice to be home.

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Practiced

Great day at family class today. We trained with Jason on our poomsaes, blocks, and self defenses in class. I then went home to do my requirements. I did my homework and studied my notes for school.

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January 29th, 2020

Today was pretty tiring. Especially because my bus dropped me home 1 hour later. After I got home I had to go to dance class, I could only go to jazz class because I was very late for ballet ????. I got back from dance and took a shower then ate dinner and wrote this journal.

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Rohan Apte - Daily Journal 30, Actually 29 - 12920

Today was a good day. First I had school. After school I did some of my requirements. Next I went to king tiger to do leadership and I also got with my mentee. Then I had dinner. I am going to bed. BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Rohan Apte - Daily Journal 29 - 12820

Today was a good day. In the morning/afternoon I had school. Then in the evening I did my requirements. Then I went to king tiger. I was not able to do my journal yesterday(Its the 29th) because I got home a 9:30 and my bedtime is 9:00 and I had to get ready for school. So I am doing it today. BYE!!!!!!!!.

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Jan 29 2020

Had a good day , got a little  tired towards the end of the evening. Will go to bed early. 

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Soccer practice

I had the same day as yesterday requirements, school, helping at TKD, soccer, homework, now doing this, the going off to the pillow to catch some ZZZ ???? 

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Day 39 again?!

So instead of just adding another day, I will just "repeat" yesterday. Today was the same- school, homework, requirements. I was able to go to TKD and get some credits and a mentee session in. I just want Friday to come already- im ready for the weekend! Well, that's about it. Hope everyone had a good Wednesday!

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1-29

Today I went to school and came back and got ready to go to king tiger tae kwan do. I wanted to get leadership two today but when I heard sawyer needed 1 more, I just gave it to him and said "tommrow i'll get it. Now I here stuck and doing nothing and most likely gonna die from boredom... 

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Out of town dad

Today at school we did multiplying fractions,and in reading we are doing geology and grammar.after I went to school I went to Tkd then I went to my turtoring and I did pretty good,then after that I went home to finish my requirements,watch TV,open my birthday presents,clean my room,try my new KOBE BRYANT jersey,and do my journal.BUT NOW I AM GETTING READY FOR BED SO BYE AND GOODNIGHT ????????.

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Getting There...

Found all of the answers to the written test!  Out of 80 questions, i knew probably 60ish off the top of my head.  Definitely had to look up some of the tougher ones towards the end.  I love learning new things about TaeKwonDo!  I got in 2 mentor sessions already this week, and 2 mentee sessions.  I must say, my mentees are looking pretty good!  I am definitely looking forward to the community service this Saturday!

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Wednesday 1/29/2020

Worked, ate dinner, and now I'm working on self defense- Bo Cho Dan all the way up to special self defense # 4.  I'm going to do it over and over and over to make sure it sticks.  Pushups, situps and burpees after each belt level self defense and then I'll finish with a few rounds of sparring combinations and jump rope.  

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January 29

I have two tests today which is difficult. Also, I have a math test tomorrow but I am studying very hard for it. I have a mentee session today and I plan on getting leadership 1 and 2. 

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Journal - Day 39

Good morning. Yesterday was a long day. From school went to classes and then went to sparring. Got in a lot of sparring and jump rope rounds. Master Marcus made us sweat a lot. I also did my mentor session. Have a good day!

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1/29

Today I’m going on a field trip with my class.  We are going to the oldest house in Charlotte.  It’s a half day for me!  My mom is going on the field trip too so we get to leave after and go out to lunch.  Hoping to get some requirements done before school so I can have a break this afternoon!

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1/28/20 - Dege

Today felt like a Monday, but I was able to get out of work at a reasonable time to get over 3 miles and 130 burpees in before black belt class. I was able to get to the dojang early enough to go over self defense with Master Burkart before class up to green belt. After class, I worked with mentees on self-defense, staff form 2 and rolls and falls. Unfortunately, not many other requirements today for me and now it's time to sleep. Just realized it's been a few days since I added to the tracker, so will update that now. Goodnight all!

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January 28th, 2020

Today I woke up as usual go to school get tons of homework. But since today was Tuesday, I had Science Olympiad so I had to stay at school for another hour. Then when I got home I went to King Tiger to get leadership 1, black belt class, mentee, and mentor session. At the end of the day I had tacos for dinner and did my homework until 10:45 and now this!

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1/28/20

Today, the school was pretty fun. It was a good start for the 2nd semester and 3rd quarter. In science, we are learning about the Human Body Systems. We are doing this fun Group project, where we all- the group members, choose one of the following areas to focus on. Cardiology, Pulmonology, Neurology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Disease, and Orthopedic Surgery. We are also starting a project in Social Studies about the Revolutions. This quarter will be pretty interesting. That was my day! Bye.

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Fun Day at Sparring

Today we did sparring class in Tae Kwon Do. After we did that I did some mentoring for kicks, poomsaes and self defense. I then went home to work on some more requirements a bit more then rest.

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Tuesday 1/28/2020

Long day today.   A beloved patient passed away and I found out that one of my colleagues has Cancer.  Life happens whether we are ready for it or not.  I crashed Master Cavazos's Mentor session tonight after class because I'm falling a little behind after missing class the day my son's car broke down.  Working on the Jidokwan staff forms makes me miss Grandmaster Jung.  It was amazing to be able to learn from him.  I'm having flight of ideas!  And, it's so late, I don't think I'm going to get any additional requirements done tonight.  

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Tuesday - 28/1

Today was a good day. I worked from home and got some work done on my requirements. When the boys came home from school Erik and I went for a good run around the neighborhood. After dinner we went up to the dojang. Erik is doing his white belt challenge so he was in class as a white belt while I did a mentor session with Master Knight. We worked on staff, stick, and bolo forms along with knife special. Still working out a few kinks.

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Soccer practice

We finally had soccer practice. It’s been a while due to rain but besides that today was fun, I did a mentor session and learned my 3rd staff form. Good day ????????

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Jan 28 2020

Starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, one step at a time.????‍♂️????‍♂️????‍♂️

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1/28

Today was a busy day!  I had school, soccer practice, and black belt class.  I’m tired and ready for bed!

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1/28

My grandparents are here this weekend! I was super excited and got to hang out with them on Sunday. The other thing I did was go for a six-mile run. I went with my dad and we split it into two parts running 3.25 twice. I really enjoyed talking with him and I'm really happy that he is running again. I have to go to bed now so I'll be back in class tomorrow.

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Day 39!

Hey guys! Today was a good day- but like you guys already know- school, homework, requirements. I’m going to TKD to get credits and take class. Well that’s about it! Bye!! 

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Projects

It's a good thing I am good at Project Management! I had so much going on today with my trades, moving, and budgets. Tomorrow is the big day, the official move! We have most of the apartment ready to go, just have to clean up lose ends to get things out of the way. We are all more than ready to get moved in. I wasn't able to get all of my requirements in, but I still have a sparring class to go to tonight and I teach my students in about an hour so Im sure I can get the rest of them hammered out. In February I plan on going back and concentrating on my time for running. Since I've been having to deal with moving and everything, I've just been running just to run, not really trying to get faster. In Feb, that changes and hopefully I can...

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Jan 28

Had a quick morning and breakfast with my mother. Went to the little gym for 2 hours. I wasn’t very efficient but got everything done. Working on making my poomsaes smoother but now I think I am moving tooooo slow. Need to speed them up a little. Treadmill running is the absolute worst. And it is 72 degrees in the little room. Blah. Flying back home tomorrow early. Looking forward to running outside tomorrow.

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January 28

Today I had a bunch of math due but i turned it all in and i had a soccer workout and it was so hard and im sore

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Journal - Day 38

Good Morning. Yesterday was a good day. I went to class and got my credits. Came back home and went to bed. Waiting at the bus stop for my bus. Have a good day.

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1/ 27 /20

Today, I had no school. I got to do my homework for the next couple of days and then I went to TKD t get dome leadership credits done. I also got my mentee and mentor session done. I am excited for the school dance that I am a part of. I am in the student council and I am a secretary! This year will be really fun! 

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Black belt

Today I went to black belt at master chins school in Belmont. It was really fun and I got one on one training with him. I practiced lots of things. Good Monday 

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jan 27

This is my first full  week back at school and i have like 5 tests!but i am ready for all of them and i got a 92 on pysch

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Jan 27 2020

I've been sweating it through the last few days about getting a truck inspected, I  Had till the end of the month To get it done. I get to the place and they tell me my truck is old and it doesn't need inspection anymore.????‍♂️

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Monday 27/1

Everyone got up as usual this morning and we got the day going. I had a full day of work training but before we got started I got a call to come pick up a kid from school. Luckily Angel called around and one of our friends could step in and help us out, After my training I came home and worked on my requirements. Tomorrow we will be going back to the dojang.

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January 27

Flew to Salem NH after black belt class of Saturday. Here to help my Mom out with somethings. Took yesterday off all together which was not planned but nice. Today I went to the gym at my mother place, very tiny however no one goes to it and there was a mirror which I find helpful doing poomsaes. Went over there this morning, then again in the this afternoon to catch up. Got a bunch of things done that my mom wanted to do and then we made dinner for 3 of my sisters and their family’s so that was fun.

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January 27th, 2020

Today I went to school and got loads of homework. When I came home I ate pizza then went to King Tiger TKD to help out with class. I got in leadership 1&2 after 3 classes. It was really fun! After I came home I started on my homework and finished around 8:30pm. And now I eat!

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Good Monday

Not a bad Monday!  Got a chance to work with Grandmaster Evins and Master Cavazos this morning.  Worked on sticks curriculum, as well as Double Stick Form #1.  Also had a chance to practice TaeKwon Il, Yi, AND Sam.  Feeling a lot better about those.  I just found out what essays I have to do, so I will get cracking on that ASAP.

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Monday 1/27/2020

It's 8:00 pm and I haven't started working on requirements yet (except the mile walk which I did at lunch).  It's going to be a late night.  I was up early but couldn't do my usual pushups, situps and burpees because I had to be at work early, so that threw my routine out of whack.  I'll stay at work tomorrow until Black Belt Class because I just can't face the 45 min-1 hr drive home from work in traffic and then the 40 minute drive to class and then the 40 minute drive back home.  I know I complain about the drive a lot, but it's just no fun.    

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Another Monday

Today I went to school and it wasn't half bad. After school I came home and got to do another mentor session with Gabriel. I helped with some small things for dinner. After I worked some on my homework for this week. And am working on some requirements before bed.

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Naked and Afraid

Dear John    Have you ever watched Naked and Afraid I have and it scares the heck out of me. Would you go 21 days naked and living primative off the land.  I know I would not but that is crazy how these people live and do not tap out.  I would tap out the first few hours especially with bugs. So I think I would be with you and live at Harris Teeter. LOL  Until next time John   Out 

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Its a regular day

I worked on my project in my visual arts class today. It was a regular school day.  I did some requirements this afternoon. I'm heading out to family class.

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Day 38!

Hey guys! You  already know it- school, homework, requirements. Today I’m planning to go to TKD to get some credits in and maybe a mentee session. Well that’s really it. Hope everyone had a good day so far! Bye!!

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1/27

Yesterday I went to Defy Gravity and I got a lot of my falls and rolls completed.  It was s fun way to work out!  Today it’s raining so no run.  I had school and then I am meeting with my mentor and mentee.

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Rohan Apte Daily Journal 28 - 12720

Today is a great day so far. In the morning I woke up late, no school teacher workday. I did some homework and worked on my requirements. My mom took me for a hair cut. Right now I just finished it I am having lunch. In the evening I plan to finish my requirements. Hope you have a great rest of your day!!!

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Journal - Day 37

Good Morning. Woke up a little late today as there is no school. Finishing my assignments and will start working on my requirements soon. I look forward to seeing everyone in class this evening. Have a good day.

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1/26/20 - Dege

Had a great training session at the park today with Master Tucker and Master Burkart! We worked on many poomsaes. I was worried that it would be too cold, but I had enough layers and even had to shed some before we finished. After Master Burkart had to leave, Master Tucker and I worked on double stick 2 many times and our creative poomsae. I am really excited about how our creative poomsae is turning out. Now we have to learn it as if we have practiced it for a long time.

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Sore today

I went for a 2 mile run in the afternoon.  After that I did my push ups, sit ups, burpees and other requirements. I was surprised how sore I was from black belt class yesterday.  I took some time with my Playstation. It was fun and a good day.

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Busy Weekend

I am so tired today! We have been moving our stuff into our new house the whole weekend and we aren't done yet. We have a lot of stuff! My room was painted yesterday and I got to choose the color in my bathroom. I am doing a beach theme so I did a sky blue color. My mom is working real hard to get the house done before our super bowl party. I like watching the puppy bowl and kitten half time show, they are so cute! My mom and I have been doing our requirements in between moving our stuff. It is so hard! I will be glad when the movers come. 

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Rohan Apte - Daily Journal 27 - 12620

Today was a good day. In the morning I was not able to do anything except for homework. Then I had lunch. After lunch I worked on my requirements for the rest of the time. Then I had dinner and went to bed.

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Moving, but not Everything

Today was day #3 of moving stuff into the new house while avoiding getting in the way of the paint crew. I think we are at the point now that we can't move anything without the help of the movers. The painting process has come along really well. I chose colors that I was nervous about but they came out really nice! I changed the mater bathroom color though, but I think it'll work out. Hopefully the painting will be done tomorrow, im ready to start putting things up on the walls and getting a head start on that. I still need to buy fans....My pavers guys start tomorrow, I am very excited to see how that looks! During all this craziness this week, I was still able to stay on top of my requirements! Not bad!

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January 26th, 2020

Today was a nerve racking day. Why? I had my piano recital today. But before that I went to church. I ate Chipotle for lunch and went to my recital. It went pretty well. When I got home my grandparents came for dinner and yeah. That it...

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Journal - Day 36

Good Day. Yesterday evening my mom and I went over to one of our neighbors house for some function. After that my brother went to his friends house for sleepover. He came back at noon today. I worked all day on my assignments and then finished my requirements. Then at 3pm my brother and I went for a run. We ran 2 miles and I have been consistently keeping up with my time. Tomorrow we do not have school. Have a good night!

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Birthday,lax,ice cream,and black mamba.

Today I had lacrosse practice,and it was fun.And after lax we went to a custard place which was really Good.then we found out before that that the black mamba died he was Kobe Bryant nba legend goat.then I went home from the sleep over I had with my friends and we stayed up all night.so bye 

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Good Day

Dear John    I saw you at the park today training. It seemed you were having fun. I did not want to interrupt you but you looked slow compared to the other two artist. You better pick it up or your going to get left behind. Overall glad you are back at the park I remember see you with Thamm and Ritchie years ago. There are some found memories I am sure for you with laughs and hard work. Keep it up.   John 

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Jan 26 2020

Got up today and was   Hoping to get some things done. After I got to were I need to be , o MAN its Sunday.????????????????

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Sunday 1/26/2020

It was another beautiful Sunday and another awesome training day with Master Dege and Master Burkhart at Mint Hill Park. We trained for three hours! Master Dege and I finished our creative form! Very exciting! I came home did sparring rounds and jump rope and finished off with push-ups and sit ups. Now it’s 3 PM and the day is almost over!  But what a great day!

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Soccer

Yesterday I could not do a journal because I was at my friends house for a sleepover but today I had a soccer game and it was really fun we lost 1-0 but we tried our hardest today, I had a good day and I helped to make lunch and we’re making dinner right now. Bye 

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Day 37-well really day 36

It was supposed to be day 36 because I forgot to journal one day- but I’ll just do an extra journal at the end- to meet my requirement of 50. Today I went to church in the morning. I just came back and I’m planning to start my requirements soon. In the evening, I’ll probably do some homework that I yet have to finish. The weekend flew by- tomorrow we have school:((( well that’s it! bye!! 

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1/26

Yesterday I was at Tae Kwon Do for a long time.  I had sparring and black belt class.  I also worked on some of my requirements.  After class I got to play outside with my friends.  Last night I had pizza and played switch with my friends.

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1/25/20 - Dege

Worked with the basic stances form in Junior Tigers class this morning. Worked with my mentees after black belt class. Thank you Master Tucker for working with them too! There is a lot for them to learn. Thanks for the reminder to study the written test Master Tucker! I need to be sure I have all the answers too. So many things to remember. At this point I don't know what I need to know, that I don't know. What am I forgetting? Worked on quite a few poomsaes today, and they weren't too jumbled. Worked on a creative poomsae with Master Tucker today and getting excited about it. I think we made a lot of progress. Looking forward to training at the park tomorrow morning with Master Tucker and Master Burkart, but not looking forward to the temperature! Will definitely need to keep moving!

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1/25/20

Today was fun, and I got all of my requirements done throughout the classes. I took a nap when I got back home. After that, my family and my family friends went to the movies. It was fun together and the movie was really funny. I just got back and I am really happy about the 3 day weekend again. 

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Saturday - 25/1

Got up early this morning and took the boys and myself to sparring and classes up at Harrisburg. Instructor Foster gave us a good workout during sparring. Erik and I also got a session in with our mentees before our regular class. After class we worked on stick and staff forms. I think I am getting the hang of staff form 2 finally. :-)

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Rohan Apte - Daily Journal 26 - 12520

Today was a great day. In the morning I went to sparring class, got leadership 1, and got BB class. Then I worked on my requirements. Then we went shopping. Then we had dinner and went to bed.

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Jan 25 2020

Had a good , felt bad I didn't get a journal in yesterday.  Had a  Senior moment last night and fell asleep.

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Saturday 1/25/2020

Full day of training today- junior tigers, worked on creative poomsae with Master Dege, black belt class, mentor session, then home to do pushups on my Push Up Pump, more poomsaes and lots of self defense.  Now I need to make sure I know everything on the written exam.  Looking forward to meeting Master Dege and Master Burkhart at Mint Hill Park tomorrow.  

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Fun Day at Master Evins's class

I had a great day at the King Tiger in Charlotte. We did our exercise training, our special self defense, and our kicks with Master Evins. The class started off very intense and I was sweating.

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Oh John

Dear so  John  I am as sore as you always say you are. I am sore in my shoulders and legs between 9 Round clients kicking, King Tiger clients making me fall I am sore. I see you did 90 burpees in your spartan work out yesterday geez are you crazy. You must be but then again I guess that is why you are sore.  The work out for the Spartan as I understand it was  1. 30 Burpess with the Spartan 22 lb Ram 2. Hang with 20 knee tucks 3. 10 minute max out jog at 15% incline  4. log squats 30     3 rounds  so I hope you get ready for the first Race in February.  Well good luck you are going to need it. 

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Journal - Day 35

Yesterday was a good day. From school we went to Black Belt class. Once I came home I worked on my assignments. This morning I went to sparring and Black Belt class. Master Evins made us do a lot of kicks and push ups. Black Belt class was good. Came back home and working on my assignments again. My brother is going for a sleepover with his crazy friends. Have a good day!

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Day 36!

Hey guys! I forgot to journal day 35! Today I went to sparring class and black belt class. It was fun! Once I came back I at lunch- and then watched some tv. I’m planning on continue my requirements soon. Well that’s about it! Bye!! 

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Sleep over day and night

Hi guys today I had a lot of stuff happening so first I had a basketball game but we lost 17-13 then I went to takwondo for class then I went home to do this and I am going to meet my friends then know we are getting ready to leave nd we are going to stay up allll night playing games.shhhhh don’t tell anyone.i am just kidding.but I got to go bye bye ???? 

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1/24/20

Today was fun. It was the last day of the 2nd quarter and 1st semester. Also, we really didn't do much. Today I also went to my friend's B-Day party, I had a great time with my friends. I am just so ready for the 3 day weekend again! See you all tomorrow.

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1/24/20 - Dege

Another long day at work today! A too many hours and not even a good feeling of accomplishment! At least I can feel good about a productive day, but I was was not happy leaving work after 8pm. That's just too many hours sitting at a desk in front of a computer. Was hoping to go check out a band tonight. Since that wasn't meant to be, I will have to find them another time. I have been trying to fit that into my schedule for a few months now. After work I had some errands to do and ate a late lite dinner, but requirements don't get done by thinking about them. Hoping to get another workout at the park this weekend. 

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Fun day at black belt class today

I had a great time doing our poomsae and self defense specials at class today. We also used our sticks to train with Master Chelley. At the end of class Jason helped me with a special self defense that I was having trouble with.

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Finally Friday

It feels like it has been a long week, and it really hasn't. It was very rainy and I opted to go the long way through the overstreet mall from my parking deck to and from the office. Erik and I had a good time going up to the Lake Norman school for black belt class, sadly we were running late and didn't get a mentor session in with Master Knight.

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Rohan Apte - Daily Journal 25 - 12420

Today was a great day. In the morning I had school as usual. When I got home I did my requirements. Then I had dinner and went to bed.

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1/24

Today was a rainy day!  I did some requirements before school and finished them after school.  I had nachos for dinner and had some time on my iPad.

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Friday 1/24/2020

I have not been feeling well today, so I think I am going to pass on requirements. I will have to make it up sometime this weekend. It’s very inconvenient to be sick during the cycle. I hope that by getting rest tonight I will feel better by tomorrow.

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Rain, Rain, Go Away

Holy cow, what a wet day!  No running outside, that's for sure!  Took a great black belt class with Master Chelley at Lake Norman.  Almost done with all of my leadership credits, and have less than 20 miles left!  Sounds great, but behind on a couple other things.  it was fun to do a lot of stick forms today.  

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Black belt

Today I went to black belt in birkdale and I got a new book at the barns and noble down the street. Class was really fun. It was a good day

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I had to work on a french project it was so hard! I also had a psych test but I think I did pretty good. 

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Free Monday!

Today I had no school. I was very happy because I got to go to King Tiger and spend time with my friends. Today we played a lot of big mat things and it was fun. At lunch we watched shark boy and lava girl the movie. Sparring class yesterday was fun and today black belt class we did some stick forms. 

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parents nights out

Today at school we had a 2 hour delay AND WHEN WE GOT AT SCHOOL WE WATCHED INSIDE OUT.after that it felt like I HALF DAY!!THEN I WORKED WITH MASTER WEEKS,AND NOW WE ARE GETTING READY FOR THE JEDI PARENTS NIGHT OUT.BBBBBBBBBYYYYYYYYEEEE!

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fri., Jan 24 2020

hola amigos i am home from school and thank god i don't have to go back there tomorrow. i'll update on thursday since i'm pretty sure i didn't journal yesterday. thursday was chill and around 12:30 i went down to the lower school (our school has K-12 on 1 campus) to watch my sister perform in a midsummer night's dream. i don't remember what the character's name was, but i do remember that it was a guy who turns into a donkey. after that my sister wanted to stay @ school n take the bus home and i was not ab that life so i left with my mom. bbc was fine. friday is chill so far, and that's pretty much it. goodbye, sleep well, and see you tmrw

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Today i woke up and did most of my requirments. As usasul though on the days off of school, after that I went to the gym and ran 1.5 miles and now I'm getting ready to leave for Lake Norman black belt class at 5:30!!

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Friday

Today at school I learned a lot about fractions. We had to stay inside for recess and indoor recess is always crazy. I got to take leftover pizza from dinner for my lunch. Tonight Far and I are going to black belt class at Lake Norman.

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Don't Run with Umbrella & Dog #2

Happy days are back again! I closed on my new house and the painting has begun! I have already started scoping out running routes around the construction in my neighborhood so we can still get Taylor's miles in. I learned a valuable lesson this afternoon, don't run in the rain with 2 Beagles, an umbrella, and 2 bags full of doggie #2. It won't work out for you, don't try it. Needless to say, my run today was difficult. Sparring was a great class last night and I am looking forward to BBC today!

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January 24th, 2020

Today I woke up earlier than I thought I would because it was a teacher workday. When I woke up I went to do my requirements. Then after that I ate breakfast and went to the gym. Later when I got home I ate lunch and wrote this journal. I’m planning to go to black belt class at the Lake Norman location at 5:30 today. So yeah...

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Journal - Day 34

Good morning. Yesterday was one of the longest days ever. School was good and from there i went to my classes. From there went straight to Tae Kwon Do. Sparring class was good. It was really exhausting. After that I did my mentee session. Came home and finished my school assignment and hit bed. Waiting for the long weekend. Off to school now. Good Day all!

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Friday

Decided to journal this morning since I am going out to dinner tonight with my husband, yeah. Stiff this morning working on self defenses. Usually I like to run in the morning but woke to the sound of rain so changed the plan. Will be another busy day however I always look forward to Friday night Black Belt class!

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1/23/20 - Dege

I tried something different today! If I add my journal entry on my kindle and then go back and read other journal entries, I don't see the names with the entries. Today I am using my other kindle and decided to read other journal entries before I logged in to add my entry. It is different seeing who wrote which entry, rather than guessing. I might be good at guessing a few, but certainly not all.  Hopefully work is getting closer to having some key decisions being made and shared, so they can be acted on. I have been feeling a little in limbo. I have been thinking that I need to find something that I am passionate about and move in a different direction, but change is hard. I also still need to come up with what that new direction is. Work has not been that for a while, and...

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