I know it has been a while since my last recorded adventure and I apologize. But alas I am here and I will try my best to keep this updated in my last 3 months of the Asian life of Jennifer Lee. Here we go......
So this weekend seemed shot from the beginning. We had to work Saturday to make up for getting a long Holiday next week. So Friday night we headed out for a few drinks to celebrate Randel's B day. Randel is a good friend of mine who works and lives with me. He is a great guy from Ajax, Ontario. He is 25 and still alive. The big party was Saturday night after work, a big party that I myself could not attend. We got off work at 8, right away Ginny (My ESL Ontario friend), Lyndsay (SMU folk), and David, and I went to our Tae Kwan Do grand masters place to practice. For what? OUR BLACK BELT TEST!!!!!! We spend a short 30 minutes practicing we headed home and got some rest.
Nine am rolled around pretty quickly and we found ourselves in the TKD van headed to Suwon (the next city down) to come face to face with 5 angry Korean judges. Our test included two poomsei's and a 1 minute free sparing adventure. The free sparing was thrown on us last minute by Big G himself. We were expecting to come face to face with a more prepared, scary, fierce korean chick. We spent 4 hours waiting in the big gymnasium which of course felt like the Colosseum, watching group upon group complete their tests. My nerves were completely calm until the moment we got out of the stands and headed for the floor to await our turn. My whole body started to shake and I felt sick to my stomach. I guess it really doesn't matter how scared I was because those patterns were burned into me and I didn't even have to think about them as I went through them. I was lucky enough to get paired up with Lyndsay for the sparing and it went well. I left the gym with the most amazing sense of accomplishment, almost as much as dancing across the stage to get that little diploma of mine.
So after leaving there with such an awesome feeling we had to do something exciting. So myself and Ginny decided to join Krista (who is comin to NL with me in Nov.), and Brooks to go bungee jumping. I know I have told you about this before but this time was a lot different. We went by our ankles, and WOW! What an absolutely rush. 45 M later I was able to get that adrenaline rush back.
We ended the day with an adventure to every one's favorite Thai restaurant, Buddha's Belly. Had some amazing Pad Thai and headed home on the subway..... And there you have it Folkes, my weekend worth of fun all wrapped into one Sunday.