I went to my second SanDa lesson last night. We didn't run nearly as much, but I did have more of a chance to try to talk to some of the other participants. They, of course, say they don't speak English while urging me on with statements like "Yes, yes," "good," and "no." Most of their Chinese seems to have a really strong accent ("shyoo-shee" vs. "shyoh-shi"--highly confusing as a beginner, especially when you've been using another similar word, "shway-shee," with them), and they don't seem to understand that they need to speak slowly to me (not that I can tell them that). There was a girl there, Theresa, who speaks English quite well and chatted with me for a while.
Unfortunately, partway through my renewed punching lesson, I noticed that my eyes were going funny. Parts of the room were disappearing with little running rainbow lines around their edges. Lucky me, I was getting my first migraine of the year. My vision cleared after a while, and the full strength of the headache never really set it, though I still have a dull aching over my right eye.
I want to go back tonight for my third lesson (I'm now a card-carrying member fo the SanDa class), but it's probably smarter to skip it. :-( I even struggled through telling my teacher in Chinese that I wanted to come back tonight. Now I'll have to learn how to tell him that I had a really bad headache.
Posted by at March 6, 2004 9:12 AM