I know I only wrote a blog yesterday and it was a crap one. I've been feeling up and down all day today, not really sure whats going on, but I'm up at the moment so I've decided to capitalise and write about what I've been doing.

Today I learnt to shoot for a takedown. Its remarkably similar to tackling people in rugby, except theres no ball, and its more likely that your takedown will fail, and the opponent will sprawl. Its incredibly fun, and I had a really good time at jiu jitsu today, despite getting beaten in my first round, the other ones I think went to a draw, but everyone kept grabbing my arm for kimura, and my shoulders are starting to get ruined. I'm glad the last session is next week as then I'll be know more techniques but I'll finally get to rest up like I should have instead of training with injuries.

Tomorrow will be my last session of Tae Kwon Do here, and I might not do it for a long time. I mean, I plan to train it again, especially as the clubs are quite common in the UK, but when I get back I know I'll have other things to train instead. The club has made me feel welcome, and introduced me to new ways of training, and most of all helped me make some awesome friends.

I'm still working on my other blog about the effects of martial arts on my life, I'm not sure if I'll ever finish it properly, but its something for me to work on for a long time.

My lab work is going ok, but I'm going very slowly. This week, as yesterday was a holiday, its been difficult to be productive, but I'm doing work on saturday so I should be getting more done, and as TKD is finishing tomorrow, I'll have my evenings free to work in the lab more and get more work done.

I'm listening to Apocalyptica right now, the album is Inquisition Symphony, my favourite of their albums.

Its only 3 weeks till I go home, but right now it can't get here soon enough.

Peace