Taekwondo

I have sustained my first Taekwondo injury. It's nothing major, but I spilled some blood. However, the actual Taekwondo classes have been great fun so far! The class consists of me and about 20 munchkins. Well, there are four or five high school boys, but the rest of the class is in elementary school. Practices are five nights a week, so the students are amazingly good. Most of them have black belts or are within one or two levels of a black belt (red or a combo of black and red).

There is one girl in the class that speaks English very well (she also attends an English school every day), and has basically become my friend and translator. She has a black/red belt, and can do the splits. She's in grade 5. Basically, she's amazing.

The rest of the kids are curious about me, but we haven't gotten past the words hello, hi, tall and crazy. Every Korean kid seems to know the word crazy, and it's quite an insult here. They use it on each other with regularity. But that's another story...