ZhengZhou

I walked out of the bus station in ZhengZhou into a whirlwind of Asian madness. I was eveloped by a chaos of colorful signs, people, traffic, bicycles, and pollution. Everyone seemed to be in a hurry to get somewhere, and 10,000 horns blasting filled the air. I am vagabonding in Asia again, and I love [...]

Prison Break

There has been a breakout. I knew that something was up when for no explainable reason, training on Friday turned soft. Our morning run was more or less a glorified shuffle and forms training was shortened so that we could “go clean our rooms”….sifu talk for “go hide”. The promised room inspections never came (good [...]

An update from the inside

Despite my last post being so negative, life here isn’t so hard. Sure, I lie awake in my bunk at night, listening to the sounds of students training late in the courtyard, and dream of summer nights back in Kentucky. Nights outside McCarthys and other luxuries like flushing toilet paper seem a world away, and [...]