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So, We reutrun home for this weekend, feels good to be home in a open dojo and our good old sladdy mates. I walk in and a sppi says want to help me clean the mats I set my stuff down and do what she instructs me to do. Then others jump in, and so I go to what at my dojo is known as "my corrner" I like it becaue you can see most of the dojo, except for the main door. I stand there trying to figure out if there is anything I can do, but seems to be undercontrol. While standing there a person from last semmenar says "Hi! I rembber you from last year, Do you rember me". I noded. Then Santo waalks by and says" hi, Tara Marsh" and he exteds a hand, to wich I shake , while thinking how did you know my name?" He like its on your form. ( dugh , I should have known that). Then my sissay walks up and shakes my hand( unsual), not sure how to take that one ither. I see a few femmler people and many new faces. A grile walks up form Organ and intrudeces her self, more shaking hands. Thenn I hear clapling so we scamper on the mate and form 2 lines ( i am used to one), bow in. Then he leads us turow in jappans the warm ups. Then we do a teque wich my sisay says immdilty after we bow to snot Tara. So I go to him, he works with me , he had to remand me how to not fall with my hands back. I had issues with that tonight, mostly becaue i would 9get scared. We did a lot of new teques for me. Shinoga, something that respeled nequo but you went under the arm. I got to work with alot of relly nice and helpfull people. Most did not mind that I was not so good. Infact they seemed to injoy helping me. There were two other 7th kue focks and our newes mebber only 3 months old. Wich was a suprice becaue last year I was the only white belt, I felt silly becaue a gril of 20 was yellow belt with a black strip, andI only braly raddy to take a yellow belt test. Oy! Then one of the last teqes we did , or the last I remmber. I worked with a fellow Sappie and someoen I meat last semmenar. some people on the tequine were doing high falls , and the spppie asked the other person to do it onhime. Then wehen they satred playing in that area I backed away to the dooor. I was like ok they can do that I goona watch. Then man calls me up to do something and the sppii is like she not gonna like that! I try to pull back, but his grip is too tight. He gets me up on his back, I like the second he went to put me on hsi back I stared kikking and was like put me down!!!!!!. I was so swcared, and so nto expecting that! When I tuched grond I carwed off the mat and sorta huged the grond like I had not seen it in eons. I could harddly breth, I not sure waht panic attack feels like , but I preddy sure I had minnor one. THen I go back on after awhiile and snoto bows out. I go to my bag and to get my things the spppi student comes up to and is liek so how did you like the cosshy fall! ( lol) I like wide eyed I hatted that , I was so scared! He like I know! He says you went form playfull , eassygoing, to scarlet read , dead serrrious, he like I suppuresed you did not kick him hard, your eyes looked like they were to pop out of there soccet. I was , I was tryign to squrim down but his grip was too hard, I tryed to puul away at frist but even then his grip was cortttoleing. I only got him to relise what was goign on when I stred kicking and brought my felxable leges up on to his bak and then tryed to put them on the grondI was tryign to pry his hand off. Ionly manbged to actuly say put me down somewhat qutitly, my thorught went dry. All I know is get to grond. Freeky! Over all had lots of funn lots to take in and work on. I got middly yeld at for not drinking watter, and alot for puting my hands back, other then the koshi thing I did preddy well. I only freeked out when people got to close a few times. It was fun and glade I went.
04-30-2010 11:50 PM 