Recognizing differences

Disclaimer; I am a little peeved at the moment to say the least, just a bunch of people in my life being coinstinctively ignorant, so do ignore any bias if i do write some.

First of all, to all the Muslims out there, i commend you. They wake up at 5-6am everyday. That alone is worth recognition. Today I spent the day with a couple of the guys from training at some Lutheran College in Redbank plains. First the Muslim thing, as some of you know that the Islam faith is one of the most strict when it comes to religion, I just didn't know how seriously it was taken, unfortunately before starting martial arts I was one with preconceived perceptions but that's most definitely changed over the past 6 months. So I'm going to assume that you guys know that hey can't eat pork right. Well today after the 4 class we took, some of the kids baked us some rice and vegie dish, a gesture of gratitude. Though what we didn't realise was that there were bits of bacon in the dish. One of the kids took a few bites and we don't know if he ate any bacon. Though when we told him, i was amazed, the look of horror on the face, like he had just shot someone. He is only 10, the amount of determination and well faith he had was truly amazing. After the sessions we drove to the Mosque before we went out for lunch cause they all had to pray. The kids wanted me to go with them, the told me they would teach me how to. Though i didn't i was afraid that i might offend some of the older people there. I do enjoy listening to them pray, especially cause its semi musical, i think God does favour Muslims they all seem to have relatively well singing voices, like i don't think Ive ever heard of a singing Jew.

The school and demo: It was pretty sweet. It was so nerve racking though. I mean like i remember what i was like in high school so that really made me not want to do it. Though all in all it was a pretty good success. It was pretty repetitive and we were incredibly sore just holding specific stances while the kids realised the numerous errors they made. It was a good experience and there were some exceptional kids. After my grading on Sunday i was told I would have to begin teaching, not full time but like assisting. The three white belts we have in the class are like 4, and 9 i think. So it will be quite the challenge, though all i want from martial arts is to be able to teach, its the passion that drives me. I don't really care about gold medals or tournaments, though if i ever get the confidence i will enter.

The school was something, like it was a college so you got the breakdown of the school into 3 sections. We only took the year 6's which i am grateful for cause well high school kids are fuckheads. We could tell it was a rich private school not just from the landscaping but the fact that people drive hummers to drop their kids off. Oh the scary thing is, the teachers have to wear the school uniform as well! Like its a more grown up version but i was like this place is messed up. Though they had the hottest HPE teacher ever! She even participated which was awesome. Oh handball, we all remember that right? The game we once loved is not what it used to be. These kids i don't know if they were just private school kids but they were all over the place laterally. I mean half of them were on the ground, some were diving for the ball. Some kids were blowing the ball across the line, it didn't make sense. I was talking to one of the guys and he was like, "This is not handball".

So I've learnt some life lessons, that all little kids will almost kill for your approval, that some kids are weird enough to be morally and physically disgusted at the notion of cheating and saw a llama.