Jiping Hotel Siping
No.1101 West Xinhua Street Siping, Jilin, 223001, China
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Hard say bye
... gave me a huge hug and whispered in my ear these words "You are not inadequate! You've thought so your whole life, but you have never been!" Instead of thanking her for her kind words I just blurted out "how did you know?". Her words really hit home with me. Like something just burst open in my chest (in a good way). Robin also told me she had "a vision from God" about me. She said she saw ...
Martial Arts Training in China
... and located way out in the country side. P************* bunch ot small villages along the way. Appears the academy is not in a temple (as suggested on their web page) but rather a school located next to a local castle that seems to get lots of chinese tourists.
Place seems Ok and at the moment pretty cold since the lake is still frozen when I arrived. Should be noted though that it was warming up pretty quickly since the lak had melted by the end of the ...
Siping Shaolin Martial Arts Academy
... expecting and it was not at all as presented in the website. There were definitively no monks here and I couldn't feel any deep martial arts spirit. I had paid up front all my tuition fees for one year, thinking that this way I would not run away at the first sign of difficulties! If I had left earlier, the Academy would have kept more than 60% of my tuition! What could have I done? I didn't know anything about China nor speak a word of Mandarin, so I decided to stay and ...
Farewell......my friends.
... marched up to me, gave me a huge hug and whispered in my ear these words "You are not inadequate! You've thought so your whole life, but you have never been!" Instead of thanking her for her kind words I just blurted out "how did you know?". Her words really hit home with me. Like something just burst open in my chest (in a good way). Robin also told me she had "a ...
And like that...he's gone!
... t get everything I was looking for/expected out of this experience. I've gotten all that, and more! But, I was seriously contemplating staying for another month or two here. Unfortunately, that would mean scrapping my trip to Japan, and I came all the way across the world for that. There's no going back now! I wanted this post to be a summary of my time here, some thing that ...


