Traveling

Tai Chi

So in Sept '04, 44 North Koreans jumped the fence at the Canadian embassy and were sheltered in a large conference room for about 3 months- Ok well, it's not THAT large- I couldn't believe 44 ppl lived in it for 3 months... you can check out the news stories below
http://www.familycare.org/network/p01_article18.htm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/200307_china19.html
Now, more importantly, (not at all really but ..) Chantal and I did Tai Chi tonite in that very same room. We were 6 ppl and an instructor and it was fantastic- you see people doing it all over the place so it was something that I was very interested in learning when Chantal mentioned they were offering a course. (Its the very slow and fluid movement type of martial art ?? Its very beautifula dn peaceful to watch- and I will take anything peaceful at this point)
The whole course was in Chinese but occasionally someone would try to help me by translating what the instructor was saying but really I just watched her and copied what she was doing- I learned a couple more words too.. (Interesting side bar- we were all in work out clothes and running shoes etc etc and the instructor was this older woman in dress pants (you know polyester) and a button shirt.. we are so silly)

posted by jjoollee @ 6:44 AM