Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Gingerbread smelling days

Huh, damn puter... I've put down everything and it all vanished who knows why. Cool, I can start it all over again. Sooo, quickly:

I've spent just 2 hours packing all the gingerbread cookies for my friends yesterday after work. By the way, we call them honey-bread as the base of the cookie is honey and there's not even a grain of ginger in it. Then spent another 1 hour at the Post Office. 20 minutes queuing, then when it finally got to me, and asked the lady how much they are, she said it was 900 HUF (it makes about 3,5 Euro). It was suspiciously cheap. So I asked when will they arrive? She said "3 days". "By airmail?" "To overseas???" I asked. I was pretty sure that there is some serious misunderstanding here, and sure it's not the Hungarian Post Office Service which does such a great job. Then she stared at me and it turned out that I screwed up the addressing, and put my name in the "recipient" field. Had she not noticed this, I would have received all the parcels I sent by tomorrow.
So I had to crawl back again to the desks, fight for some free seats and address all the parcels again. (So guys, don't laugh too much if you find some layers of labels on the wrapping of the boxes :-P ). Queuing for 20 more minutes and finally the boxes were on their ways. I hope you guys can receive it in time ;-)


Needless to say, I was 2 hours late from the meeting with my very first instructor. But he was patient :)
I went up to his place, had some wine and we talked about the prospective dojo which now seems less and less likely to be opened. It seems that he may have to relocate to his hometown soon and since I will also go abroad for work in January 2008, it may not be a responsible thing to open a dojo. Anyway, we will discuss it in January again when he'll know more about his future.

Today at training B. and me pulled away to practice a bit of Koku, Renyo, Danshu, Danshi and Keo from JRNM.
It was the same at the previous training as well, for which I was very grateful because I could concentrate on polishing my own skills. It's interesting to see how much the point of these techniques is not the technique itself, but the principle that it applies. All of them are different on one way, and although Keo for example is simple, it is still not easy to do it correctly. You can not do it correctly if you don't understand and apply the principle of the movement.

Anyhow, I'm very tired now, so time to hit the rack.

Later more.

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