Testing

sorry I haven't been able to post about anything....freaking busy weekend

So last Thursday evening, we had All-County Orchestra. Then on Friday, we had it again all day, so I missed school. Haha on Friday the conductor said "Enjoy life because you'll be my age tomorrow" and he had said that yesterday...ummm...unless I'm mistaken, I'm not his age yet...
Concert was pretty good; we played some Symphony, an Overture, and Carmen Opera Suite.

Anyway, so that was my Friday. Then on Saturday, I got up, went to taekwondo at 9:30 AM, practiced until about 10:30, went to the school gym where testing was, practiced line-ups and basic movements with all the other people who were testing until 1:00, then went to the Jazz Festival at my school to play with my jazz band, went back after that ended at 3:00, got back to the testing location at 3:20, testing started at 3:40 and went until 7:30 or so.

It was super long day. Testing is sooooooooo long because the people are all divided into groups of about 8 or 9 and they rotate--there were 6 groups testing for 1st degree and each had to do 3 forms and self defense. That took awhile. Then my group went and did 3 forms and then while the 2nd degree testers were doing their forms, we changed into our sword uniforms that look like samurai outfits and did our sword form. Then we changed back into regular uniforms and each group rotated doing sparring. Our group went last on that because we have to spar 2 on 1. Haha our instructor plotted against my sister--he was telling us to do flying sidekicks at her and stuff, it was funny.

Aaaand then we all did board breaking. I did a punch power break (which is twice the thickness of normal breaks) and a step-turn-behind roundhouse kick power break, then a running-sidekick-punch thing. Kind of hard to explain what that is without pictures or something.

But yeah. And now it feels weird to go to school because of the crazy stuff I did over the weekend.