Blogs from Jiangsu, China, Asia - page 2

I hadn't been feeling too well during the night, so my plans to get up early and go explore were nixed. I stayed in bed to catch up on some sleep before finally getting ready to head out. When I was checking out, I was able to leave my backpack there, so that I didn't have to lug it around with me. My first stop was breakfast and I headed to the Starbucks near the subway station, so that I could get food and a caffeine hit. This place was tiny and really busy, however I was lucky to be able to snag a seat. I decided to have a slow start to my morning and spent some time reading my book. When I was finally ready to tear myself away from my book, I headed ... read more

Here we are, It is Thursday , and it has been a busy few days. unfortunately that means the updates have been few and far between, and am sorry about that, but there has been so much going that it has been important to focus on everyone here, I am sure you can understand. Going back to my last entry it was on Sunday after we completed Dance and Style compeetition, seems so long ago. Monday morning we had training for Freedance, which is a much better time frame this year for skaters to have the ability to recover and prepare for whatever is next. Last year there was training and competition in the one day which was far from ideal, with this years program much better in my opinion. The senior did train at 6am ... read more

I am sure practice does make perfect however , it generally takes too long for most people. Anyway regardless we had officiall training today, and while every skater ever on the universe (some poetic licence) gets to the first training at worlds and has a heart attack, todays experience was pretty good. A reasonably calm skater, and a fairly good practice. The pressure is off a little when you know there is a level you are trying to apsire to that you aren't quite at yet, and are attending an event like this to learn and develop, with that state of mind I certainly think days like today run much easier. I am just hoping that calmness conitues on for tomorrow. After training we had time to go and watch Daniel and his friends play hockey ... read more

And we are away, for a change a reasonably peaceful departure, no mad traffic, no airport issues, No overweight mad re-packing (couple of little shuffles) , am starting to think packing issues were all fedsy's fault. And now we are winging are way North-north-west towards Asia. Internet on the flight is great, but no Facebook, no google, doesn't seem to want me to loginto hotmail, so not all that useful, but it is nice that they tried. The little cherub is sort of sleeping, hopefully she will stay alseep for a bit, had an argument to get her Vegetarian meal but in he end they brought one down from Business which was nice. Other than that little hiccup the China Southern plane is pretty much the same as any other international flight, with all the things ... read more

In just 4 weeks I will be travelling to Nanjing China to watch Olivia and Daniel compete at the World Roller Games. China has a lot of restrictions on the use of social media, so this travel blog will hopefully allow me to share some photos with my family and friends while we are away :)... read more