"You know when you fancy someone so much and they don't fancy you that you just get a bit weird? Because, you know, that's really going to help..." - 5 laughing faces go suddenly serious, shocked, and nod. "Yeah it happens to everybody".

I thought that was great!

Today was the Martial Arts Open Day and it was really great because the guy who was speaking for Kendo looked like Haku from Spirited Away! Their demo was funny because he was like "and now she is going to smash his head open and then cut off his wrist..." because, you know, after you smash someone's head open there's a reason to cut off their wrist!

I have a great respect for most of the martial artists at our Uni, mostly there is friendly competition at the most to get members, but as most martial arts are so different from each other it is not really a matter of competing between clubs to get members, because people will go towards the martial arts that will suit them best. I think Jitsu and Shotokan will have a bit of intermingling as we both expressed some interest towards the other. I went to a couple of Jitsu sessions in 1st year and it was really cool but I just didn't have the time or money. Then last year Ian took up all my time... and money... (couple activities like dinner dates and movies really do add up) and then there was karate, 4 times a week, I'm definitely cutting back this year! I'll go to Jitsu once a week maybe, it'll be good to learn something new. Of course this will have to be on top of surfing and People & Planet....

and uni!

Oh dear.