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03/12/08

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Categories: ...and Takes On, Tae Kwon Do

"You're Still Doing Taekwondo?"

Since my second dan test, I've been asked, by five different people, a variation of this question:

You're still doing taekwondo, even though you already did your second dan test?

What an odd, odd question.

I went to taekwondo last night and tonight. Last night I managed to pull the inside of both thigh muscles, doing—of all things!—a grapevine across the floor. I also managed to jam my toenail against the top of my shoe when I was trying to put it on, and a bruise mysteriously appeared on my shin.

Hmm. Why am I still going again?

An American educator moves moved to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers discovered that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is was a more captivating activity.

Somewhere along the way, she met a Good Man, fell in love, and ended up back in the States. Still doing taekwondo, still learning Korean...

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