Rooooaaaarrrrrrr!!!

It's late and I really need to get to bed as I have to be up for work at 4 am, and it is now going on 10:00.  But. . . but . . .but, I just got home from a really great dragon dance practice and couldn't wait to post about it, or I would either forget to, or wouldn't remember this feeling by the time tomorrow rolls around.  What sometimes happens, is by the next day, I dismiss the feeling as if it didn't happen.

 Soooooo, the practice was great!  When I first attended the dragon dance practice, I somehow missed the email about it, but just happened to be at the kung fu school finishing with the kids classes.  Everyone said, "oh come join us, we need a filler in."  So I filled in.  I sucked at it, as I had never done it before, ever.  I was told to just follow along.  Sounds easy.  I got quite frustrated, and even worse was that sometimes we tend to have too many bosses at theses practices and I was getting told so many different things.  Everyone else seemed to be having a good time, so I tried to remain positive.  At one point, I asked if I had to commit to doing the dragon dance now that I was there to fill in.  Sifu Brinker said, "you committed to doing the dragon dance when you committed to doing the UBBT.

So, I went to the next practice, and the next, and the next one after that.  Today, I got asked if I enjoyed the dragon dance a bit more, now that I was getting the hang of it.  I sure do!  I was thinking that I should pass off my position to Sihing Chessel so he could have a turn, but I didn't really want to.  I was relieved when he helped with the lion part, so I could stay in the dragon, and not feel guilty.  I really enjoy being a part of this team!

After last practice, I got everyone down and we did 100 tricep pushups.  After tonight's practice, I asked if anyone wanted to join me in 100 crunches.  Of course EVERYONE did.  Sihing Choy asked me to count it out which I did, and wow!  What an exhilarating experience!  To have everyone there with the same goal in mind, and wanting to do it together felt great.  Don't know if anyone else felt it, but I sure did, and it's a feeling I want to experience more often.  Everyone there gave effort, support, and showed great teamwork!  This is the way a team should be.  Together, united, supportive.