Friday, March 14, 2008

days 111 & 112: final exams

this was final exams for the Yang tai chi course at UCLA.

seeing that i'd missed 2 weeks of this course for Ironman New Zealand, i was actually curious as to what i had missed. but Art and Sifu had told me that i hadn't missed much, since they'd stopped at the midway point of the long form and had spent the time on helping people improve their movements and technique. as a result, there hadn't really been any new material--at least anything that would have been new to me.

tuesday i ended up helping grade as everyone went through solo performances for the final exam. Sifu had set the exam to be the 1st half of the long form section done to date (which was 1/2, meaning the exam covered 1/4 of the entire form), along with 3 kicks from the end of the 1st half.

after this, i found out that Sifu had agreed to have the class participate in Pau Hana, which i understand is an exhibition of the World Arts & Cultures department (in which this class had been placed). basically, all performance-oriented courses in the department are invited to present their class project for the quarter. this time, there were a total of 12 classes that had decided to appear. i ended up going, although i wasn't quite feeling well, and actually found it quite entertaining.

thursday was just a friendly day, with no grading or instruction. Sifu meant it to be a relaxed, informal session where people could work on fine-tuning their tai chi and get feedback from each other on things to correct.

and that pretty marked the end of the quarter.

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