Trying something... sorta new...

Today has already shaped up to be interesting and different than I had expected.

I am biking to yoga tonight. I am doing this for a few reasons: 1) I want to see what it is like. If it is not that bad, I may save .90- $1.80/day and get some additional exercise. 2) I am going out to dinner and getting a massage tomorrow night, so I will be lacking in the exercise department. 3) My body is craving a push... Last night I did three hours of yoga, which was interesting and physically demanding, but I want to feel the burn in a different way...

Last night I went to 5:30 yoga. It was cool. I met a foreigner who lives about 15 minutes from me. She is new to the area. She seems really chill. She is half Korean and speaks Korean veyr well. I love to hear her use it. We spent about 30-40 minutes talking after class and then I went and took the 7:30pm class. It was instructed by the studio owner. He had me lead Sun Salutation. I have done it many times, but I think he especially enjoyed last nights rendition because after class he pulled the 8:40pm teacher aside and ended up doing a 30 minute demo class in the 8:40pm class. The demo went well and I really enjoyed. The critique afterward focused on the fact that I deviated from the studio's style and I had too many soft poses. I get to create another sequence with fewer, more powerful poses that follow the studio's style. I am fine with that.

Starting tomorrow, until the end of the week, I am without class. Well, sort of. I still have my yoga, English teacher, and other teacher classes, but I am without high schoolers. I hope to use the time to lesson plan, unwind, and practice Korean. I have been neglecting this and am suffering because of it. My receptive vocabulary is growing everyday, but my writing ability and speaking ability are totally stinted. It is really frustrating. So I will be practicing. For sure.

Tomorrow is a sports day, sort of thing. We are spending the afternoon doing sports stuff. The teachers have been divided into three teams and we are going to play against each other and then go get dinner. We are going to a soup restaurant and I will be unable to eat. My co-teacher suggested I just eat the noodles, which I have done before, but I am all together too aware of the meat absorbtion. Bah. We will see tomorrow what I decide...

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