Hey doc and everybody else!
I said I'd keep in touch with you (doc) before I went to China, and since I'm at the Shi De Cheng Wushu Guan right now, I thought I might as well say hello here in the Shi De Cheng Wushu Guan thread. I've been in China for about five months now, and it's definitely been a great experience in many ways. I'm free from school for a couple of months because of the spring festival, so me and a french friend decided to go to Shaolin for a month. I have really missed Shaolin wushu training - I train mostly changquan and other modern styles at the school in Beijing. At first I was planning to go to the Wushu Guan in Shaolin, but, as I'm sure many of you already know, they're rebuilding the Wushu Hotel so it's impossible for foreigners to stay there right now. Shi Xing Xue, my teacher in Sweden, happened to be in China just before the time of my arrival in Shaolin, so he arranged for me to stay at the Shi De Cheng Wushu Guan.
My first impression was that it was cold as hell, dirty and that the food was horrible. But I've been here for a couple of weeks now, and I'm getting used to it - in fact think I'm beginning to like it here. Training is good, it's a nice little school (even though the living is not as nice as in Beijing) with friendly people and the clean air and mountain surroundings is a very nice change from the always so polluted Beijing. Shi De Cheng is, as I'm also sure most of you already know, not here (you're causing a lot of frustration over here by keeping him in America for such a long time, doc - another french friend who's been living here for a long time misses his shifu and is considering a change of school because he never gets to see him!) and I train with one of the other coaches at the school, Chen Lili. When I first came here we decided that I'd revise my ji ben gong and xiao hong quan while my friench friend who's new to Shaolin wushu would learn it, and learn two new forms - mei hua dao and yin shou gun. Nice for a month, I think. The main problem has been that we often have no water, for some reason I've never understood, but we have drinking water in our rooms that we've used instead so it's only a problem if you really, really'd need to take a shower or something. Or if all the water mystically disappears from the fish pond, so that the fish are dying, which once happened (but they miraculously survived!). I paid 2500 yuan for my month, but I think Shi Xing Xue got the price down a lot since he is a friend of Shi De Cheng's.
Sometimes I write internet diary, in Swedish though, but if any of you would happen to understand Swedish, you can find my website at http://hannes.rebas.se. You can say hello to Shi De Cheng from me (don't think he knows my name, but I'm the Swedish guy who stays at the school and he said he'd visit me later in Beijing) and tell him that Gerald, the french guy here at the school, really wants to see him soon!
I said I'd keep in touch with you (doc) before I went to China, and since I'm at the Shi De Cheng Wushu Guan right now, I thought I might as well say hello here in the Shi De Cheng Wushu Guan thread. I've been in China for about five months now, and it's definitely been a great experience in many ways. I'm free from school for a couple of months because of the spring festival, so me and a french friend decided to go to Shaolin for a month. I have really missed Shaolin wushu training - I train mostly changquan and other modern styles at the school in Beijing. At first I was planning to go to the Wushu Guan in Shaolin, but, as I'm sure many of you already know, they're rebuilding the Wushu Hotel so it's impossible for foreigners to stay there right now. Shi Xing Xue, my teacher in Sweden, happened to be in China just before the time of my arrival in Shaolin, so he arranged for me to stay at the Shi De Cheng Wushu Guan.
My first impression was that it was cold as hell, dirty and that the food was horrible. But I've been here for a couple of weeks now, and I'm getting used to it - in fact think I'm beginning to like it here. Training is good, it's a nice little school (even though the living is not as nice as in Beijing) with friendly people and the clean air and mountain surroundings is a very nice change from the always so polluted Beijing. Shi De Cheng is, as I'm also sure most of you already know, not here (you're causing a lot of frustration over here by keeping him in America for such a long time, doc - another french friend who's been living here for a long time misses his shifu and is considering a change of school because he never gets to see him!) and I train with one of the other coaches at the school, Chen Lili. When I first came here we decided that I'd revise my ji ben gong and xiao hong quan while my friench friend who's new to Shaolin wushu would learn it, and learn two new forms - mei hua dao and yin shou gun. Nice for a month, I think. The main problem has been that we often have no water, for some reason I've never understood, but we have drinking water in our rooms that we've used instead so it's only a problem if you really, really'd need to take a shower or something. Or if all the water mystically disappears from the fish pond, so that the fish are dying, which once happened (but they miraculously survived!). I paid 2500 yuan for my month, but I think Shi Xing Xue got the price down a lot since he is a friend of Shi De Cheng's.
Sometimes I write internet diary, in Swedish though, but if any of you would happen to understand Swedish, you can find my website at http://hannes.rebas.se. You can say hello to Shi De Cheng from me (don't think he knows my name, but I'm the Swedish guy who stays at the school and he said he'd visit me later in Beijing) and tell him that Gerald, the french guy here at the school, really wants to see him soon!
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