Week 7 : Light at the End of the Tunnel. Or Is It Vegas Lights?

As my mentor Jakob told me, Week 7 is where you see the light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately for me, I DO see the light but I think I’m going to miss the rest of training terribly. Will it be hard for me to integrate with civilians and not talk about poop / pee / period / bodily fluids? Hah!

Enough sappy stuff. It seems that I have mellowed down completely, as I feel… at peace with myself. It’s a funny feeling to describe, but when you feel it, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

So… here are this week’s gossip updates. UPDATES. Not gossip. Ahem.

This week we had the amazing Jon Burras lecturing about fascia, manifesting positive thoughts and other things. While some of the lectures got testy [with a few trainees passionately disagreeing], I do however, agree with some of the things he said. It takes great balls and guts to go up to a group of 300++ people and tell them YOUR thoughts [however controversial it may be] and yet still hold on to your convictions. Kudos to Jon. On that note, however, I would like to say that most of the topics that Jon covered, I grew up with, so it was not really anything new to me. However, I did get a double cultural shock to find out that this was groundbreaking stuff to some trainees. Would love to expand and learn more from other people though!

On the food note, I am deathly afraid of the food in the Hilton, so I’ve been holed up in my room eating cold sandwiches and what not. It is safe to say that I DO know how to cook and eat a really filling meal for rather cheap-ish in the room Of course, I shall dedicate a blog post about this in the future [eventually, when I get the time..].

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand guess what guess what?! I AM CPR-CERTIFIED! So yes, I is ken saves lives!  Anybody wants to pass out and do choking / unconscious choking?!I can do Heimlich, CPR… I CAN SAVE LIVES! Haha!

A few lessons I’ve learnt this week :

- Soak self in Epsom salts, but remember, not too hot, or you’ll end up having night sweats.

- Always identify the farters and stay the hell away from them.

- Be nice to everyone, cause it’s just nice and don’t expect anything in return.

- Papercuts are dangerous, especially if you’re practicing and get sweat / germy-wermys in it.

- Some men just refuse to grow up and want to me mothered and coddled… but I didn’t pay US10,500 to come here and be your mother. Grr!

Aha, and that is all! Apologies for the short blog, but I feel guilty abandoning Ardha-Matsyendrasana to the corner.

M*