Dojo Meeting

First day back at the dojo since our senior meeting. Man, how distraught I have been since that meeting. Almost two weeks ago. I couldn’t make it last week because my knees were killing me. This time that is to be used for resting has been good but it’s just a little ironic. Instead of resting I’m stressing. How am I to be calm when I’m worried about my success in this project?

But then I remembered, that I just have to do what I agreed to do. Go to the dojo every week to sit in on session. That was completed today. Finish my research project, that’s what Harry and I talked about when I was in his office today. I came in and to my surprise he had a list of all the words he used while we were learning shoshindo. I’m not sure what language the words are said in but he told me how to say it the proper way. And since the words were written down then I was able to see the spelling of each word also, awesome.

I made a mental note that I should and will definetly use this paper to beef up my presentation as much as possible. I lost all my physicality in presentation expect the self defense techniques. So that’s the main thing Harry wanted to focus on when I got to the dojo. He made sure that we went over self defense techniques in details. He showed me how each technique should be performed. That really helped. Now I feel more secure because that’s one of the only things I have to do in my presentations. I’m scared for my presentation but I think I will be ready by April 23.

Just as a side note, me and Harry talked about the paper and I explained the difficulty I was still having when it came down to the interviews and he said to not worry about it. He doesn’t want me killing myself over it because the people in the community have no commitment to me. It’s not their first priority.