Burning on both ends
I had a very busy weekend now.
On Saturday I attended a seminar in Veszprem, lead by L. who has just returned from Japan. He's A.C.'s student (let's put it this way) and showed some things he learned from A. and the Shihans in Japan.
I think I got what he meant to show as a principle but I saw a lot of inaccuracy in the techniques, in kamae, most of which would put you in a critical situation during a fight. Well, I got some good ideas that's true, but I take what I saw with a little grain of salt. Well, obviously all of us are still learning this art, we all have our own cross.
In the lunch break I. invited me to his to-be parents-in-law's house, so at least now I could have some nice home made lunch instead of some junk food in the city center.
After the seminar was over at 5 pm I. drove me to the bus station. I was lucky 'cos I managed to catch the 17.15 bus and was at home by 20.30.
For Sunday we had our regular horseback riding scheduled, so we had to wake up early, around 8 am (early for me cos I've been sleeping 5 hours in the past few weeks with no days off).
Anyway, already after waking up I felt that there was something wrong with me, but I wanted to go riding so much that I ignored the signs.
By the time Cs. and me arrived to Budapest I felt so weak that I was afraid that I will not be able to make this day. Anyway, after a nice Coffee a'la Vienna, some fresh orange juice and a hot mint tea we decided to continue.
We met E., my new colleague who joined us to Szentendre for riding. Heat of course, like in August. This was the last thing I needed.
After we arrived to the small wooden house in the middle of the forest, I gave the fruit that we brought to the host and his family, and took the other cotton bag with some apple and carrots for the horses. Then we climbed up along the tiny path leading out of the forest to the fields on the hill. Horses are nowhere on earth.
After a few hundred meters we found one horse which was tied to a bush but the others were still gone. Cs. hopped on the horse and had let it find the others while E, me and our host, Peter took another way hoping that if Cs. cannot find them maybe we will.
Finally Cs. found the stud so Peter run there to send them back to the horseback archery field. E. and me were told to go forward and we would meet them with the horses at the archery field. After walking some time I needed to find a "safe bush" to get rid of some fluids (thanks to the tea, coffee and orange juice I drank beforehand). I found a very good huge bush in the side of one of the hills and cowered. I almost finished when heard some very strange noise. I looked up and was a bit freaked out to see the stud heading straight towards me, Cs. on top of one and laughing hard and shouting "Bring it on, Eva!" I have never put my pants on as quickly as then. :-D
Anyway, we went back to the horseback archery field and while Cs. was practicing E. and me gave some apples and carrots to the other horses. Of course all of a sudden we became very popular among the horses, so we had to hide the rest of the fruit after a while.
When Cs. finished it was E.'s and my turn.
I got "Fighter", a horse with saddle, and E. got "Bratty" who had no saddle on. We went for a long walk up and down the hills. It was very strange but when I got on the horse my sickness almost completely vanished. Anyway we walked among the hills and bushes for about half an hour, then we changed horses. Now I got Bratty and E. got Fighter (hey, sounds like a swinger club! :-D ).
By the way it's a completely different feeling to ride without a saddle. If you cannot find the correct position it hurts both you and the horse. But you can feel the horse way more than with a saddle.
Anyway, we had also a half an hour walk back to the field. After we arrived and I got off the horse my pants were all wet, the horse was sweating so much. We gave them the last pieces of apples and carrots which they consumed in a glimpse and then we released them to go with the others.
After these we went back to the house in the forest where Cs. practiced some archery, and I laid down on the ground because I started feeling so weak again.
By the time Cs. finished I could hardly pull myself to the bus stop and the way back to home seemed to last for an eternity.
After arriving to home I had a bath and thrown myself down on a sofa.
I've been coughing through the whole night and produced a huge amount of dirty hankies by morning.
I did not go to work this morning, I was feeling so weak and bad, and even today I woke up at 12.15 noon. Had a little lunch and wrote this blog but now I crawl back to bed again before I faint on the keyboard. I need to go to work tomorrow, I do not want to waste one more holiday on laying in the sick-bed, like today.
On Saturday I attended a seminar in Veszprem, lead by L. who has just returned from Japan. He's A.C.'s student (let's put it this way) and showed some things he learned from A. and the Shihans in Japan.
I think I got what he meant to show as a principle but I saw a lot of inaccuracy in the techniques, in kamae, most of which would put you in a critical situation during a fight. Well, I got some good ideas that's true, but I take what I saw with a little grain of salt. Well, obviously all of us are still learning this art, we all have our own cross.
In the lunch break I. invited me to his to-be parents-in-law's house, so at least now I could have some nice home made lunch instead of some junk food in the city center.
After the seminar was over at 5 pm I. drove me to the bus station. I was lucky 'cos I managed to catch the 17.15 bus and was at home by 20.30.
For Sunday we had our regular horseback riding scheduled, so we had to wake up early, around 8 am (early for me cos I've been sleeping 5 hours in the past few weeks with no days off).
Anyway, already after waking up I felt that there was something wrong with me, but I wanted to go riding so much that I ignored the signs.
By the time Cs. and me arrived to Budapest I felt so weak that I was afraid that I will not be able to make this day. Anyway, after a nice Coffee a'la Vienna, some fresh orange juice and a hot mint tea we decided to continue.
We met E., my new colleague who joined us to Szentendre for riding. Heat of course, like in August. This was the last thing I needed.
After we arrived to the small wooden house in the middle of the forest, I gave the fruit that we brought to the host and his family, and took the other cotton bag with some apple and carrots for the horses. Then we climbed up along the tiny path leading out of the forest to the fields on the hill. Horses are nowhere on earth.
After a few hundred meters we found one horse which was tied to a bush but the others were still gone. Cs. hopped on the horse and had let it find the others while E, me and our host, Peter took another way hoping that if Cs. cannot find them maybe we will.
Finally Cs. found the stud so Peter run there to send them back to the horseback archery field. E. and me were told to go forward and we would meet them with the horses at the archery field. After walking some time I needed to find a "safe bush" to get rid of some fluids (thanks to the tea, coffee and orange juice I drank beforehand). I found a very good huge bush in the side of one of the hills and cowered. I almost finished when heard some very strange noise. I looked up and was a bit freaked out to see the stud heading straight towards me, Cs. on top of one and laughing hard and shouting "Bring it on, Eva!" I have never put my pants on as quickly as then. :-D
Anyway, we went back to the horseback archery field and while Cs. was practicing E. and me gave some apples and carrots to the other horses. Of course all of a sudden we became very popular among the horses, so we had to hide the rest of the fruit after a while.
When Cs. finished it was E.'s and my turn.
I got "Fighter", a horse with saddle, and E. got "Bratty" who had no saddle on. We went for a long walk up and down the hills. It was very strange but when I got on the horse my sickness almost completely vanished. Anyway we walked among the hills and bushes for about half an hour, then we changed horses. Now I got Bratty and E. got Fighter (hey, sounds like a swinger club! :-D ).
By the way it's a completely different feeling to ride without a saddle. If you cannot find the correct position it hurts both you and the horse. But you can feel the horse way more than with a saddle.
Anyway, we had also a half an hour walk back to the field. After we arrived and I got off the horse my pants were all wet, the horse was sweating so much. We gave them the last pieces of apples and carrots which they consumed in a glimpse and then we released them to go with the others.
After these we went back to the house in the forest where Cs. practiced some archery, and I laid down on the ground because I started feeling so weak again.
By the time Cs. finished I could hardly pull myself to the bus stop and the way back to home seemed to last for an eternity.
After arriving to home I had a bath and thrown myself down on a sofa.
I've been coughing through the whole night and produced a huge amount of dirty hankies by morning.
I did not go to work this morning, I was feeling so weak and bad, and even today I woke up at 12.15 noon. Had a little lunch and wrote this blog but now I crawl back to bed again before I faint on the keyboard. I need to go to work tomorrow, I do not want to waste one more holiday on laying in the sick-bed, like today.
2 comments:
Hey - don't kill yourself!
Too much work and you can't play; too much play and you can't work. :)
Have a good rest, and I hope you're feeling better soon!!!
Shawn
:-) black pot is calling the kettle black :-P~
But thanks ;-)
And you are damn right. I worked too much lately and did not have enough energy for(e) play. I still tried playing but I just exhausted myself even more :-)
Back to work now :-( This is the prob. with not having anyone who could substitute you. I wonder what would they do if one day I broke my leg and was not able to go to work for like 2-3 weeks...
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