On this day I informed sensei that I would not be able to continue teaching after this next years teaching. Not in any significant way anyhow. I have decided, over several months, that I cannot continue on as things are. Eventually I will need to either have the time free for other persuits or get a different job that pays hopefully a professional ( Read more... )

Today was my k-2 judo kids tournament, perhaps the most stressful day of the term. Very few tears, from the kids myself or josh. It is very true that tests and tournaments tell me more about what I am teaching the kids than about anything else. I find that I tend to really beat myself up that my students are not learning as much as I want them to ( Read more... )

Today we had the Judo demo. I was nervous as the day of the performance was the first day with the two groups of children, k-2 and 3-12 actually practiced the two parts of the demo for the one song together. Everything went great, none of my (surprisingly large number) of kids who go commando had a pants falling off issue in front of the thousand ( Read more... )

D&D character description. Oulah is a small stringy elf, prone to ignoring the totally sentient. While completely in tune with aspects of nature, and with the creatures of the wild or semi wild, This elf displays little in the way of understanding of social graces, or, for example, where it is socially acceptable to "answer natures call". Oulah ( Read more... )