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Practice, practice, practice
Feb. 23rd, 2004 03:59 pmAd Mundo Exteriore,
I fell flat on my back during practice while receiving kirikaeshi. I'm not sure if my foot slipped or if I tripped on my hakama, but in any case, the Keio freshman was going way too fast for me to keep my distance. Well, yes, I'm slow. -_- I got back up and continued running backwards, until the exercise was finished. (What's kind of ironic is that the freshman in question is one of the three who are staying on the fourth floor of my dorm. >_>) I also have nasty-looking blisters on my feet, worse than ever before.
We were pretty terrified because the Keio seniors were leading practice today, to give it "more of a Keio feel" according to Kofi, but it wasn't as bad as we expected, thanks to all the breaks we had while being lectured on form. Also, the Keio students all go really easy on us, especially beginners like me, so the kakari-geiko exercises weren't as grueling for us as they were for the Japanese students themselves. (Kakari-geiko is a drill where the more experienced player leaves openings for the other person to hit. The goal is to go as fast as you can with the cleanest form you can manage. They also hit you whenever you inadvertently leave openings and pretty much try to bully you around--we didn't have to suffer too much of that, thank goodness.)
One more day of practice left.
I need sleep. But my to-do list is too long: preparing that AMNH application for mailing, translating the Korean song, composing and memorizing of two Korean skits, continuing work on expos draft, starting math problem set, finishing seminar reading, catching up on chemistry reading...Oh, and I got my pre-draft brainstorm assignment back from the preceptor today, and her comments were not at all helpful. Several checks and "interesting" are not exactly the advice I need to develop a thesis. Argh.
I need to speak Korean to someone. All this Japanese is confusing my brain. (Japanese sounds like Korean gibberish to me--well, except for the lack of syllables that end in consonants, that is--so it's like listening to something that should make sense but doesn't.)
...Tari
I fell flat on my back during practice while receiving kirikaeshi. I'm not sure if my foot slipped or if I tripped on my hakama, but in any case, the Keio freshman was going way too fast for me to keep my distance. Well, yes, I'm slow. -_- I got back up and continued running backwards, until the exercise was finished. (What's kind of ironic is that the freshman in question is one of the three who are staying on the fourth floor of my dorm. >_>) I also have nasty-looking blisters on my feet, worse than ever before.
We were pretty terrified because the Keio seniors were leading practice today, to give it "more of a Keio feel" according to Kofi, but it wasn't as bad as we expected, thanks to all the breaks we had while being lectured on form. Also, the Keio students all go really easy on us, especially beginners like me, so the kakari-geiko exercises weren't as grueling for us as they were for the Japanese students themselves. (Kakari-geiko is a drill where the more experienced player leaves openings for the other person to hit. The goal is to go as fast as you can with the cleanest form you can manage. They also hit you whenever you inadvertently leave openings and pretty much try to bully you around--we didn't have to suffer too much of that, thank goodness.)
One more day of practice left.
I need sleep. But my to-do list is too long: preparing that AMNH application for mailing, translating the Korean song, composing and memorizing of two Korean skits, continuing work on expos draft, starting math problem set, finishing seminar reading, catching up on chemistry reading...Oh, and I got my pre-draft brainstorm assignment back from the preceptor today, and her comments were not at all helpful. Several checks and "interesting" are not exactly the advice I need to develop a thesis. Argh.
I need to speak Korean to someone. All this Japanese is confusing my brain. (Japanese sounds like Korean gibberish to me--well, except for the lack of syllables that end in consonants, that is--so it's like listening to something that should make sense but doesn't.)
...Tari
