Category: OneHeart Challenge

I just wrapped up the donations part of my community service project, and I received so many donations. I knew that I was going to get a lot, but I never imagined the sheer numbers of things that I would receive. We have a spare room in my house and it has been absolutely taken […]

This past weekend I competed in NorCal. NorCal is a big drill competition for all of the JROTC units in northern California. This year my school competed in unarmed drill, armed drill with rifles, and color guard. I was a part of the unarmed drill divisions and I led the JV color guard team. We […]

One of the requirements for my black belt test is to run a community service project. For my community service project I am working with a women’s center, called Wellsprings Women Center, to make care packages for women in need. Wellsprings helps women who have lived in bad environments get back on their feet by […]

One of the ways that I have been getting my miles in is riding around my neighborhood. Specifically, going up and down parking garages. I am lucky enough to live just a block away from the UC Davis Medical Center, and there are three different parking garages within it. I have been going on my […]

This test has obviously been a big part of my life recently, but another thing that has been a big part of my life in the last year or so is my involvement with teaching classes at the dojo. I help teach the Tuesday and Thursday core class every week, and I teach the Saturday […]

Today is February 24th, and nine years ago on this day, I started my training at Zen Martial Arts. It’s truly surreal to me that I have been here for nine years, especially considering that that is a little more than half of my life. Of course, I have changed a lot in the nine […]

Over this weekend, I participated in my JROTC’s Bataan Death March. Every year, we do the Bataan Death March in honor of the thousands of American and Filipino POWs who died during the Bataan Death March in 1942. In April of 1942, the Japanese forced 78,000 prisoners to walk 65 miles in brutal conditions. Thousands […]

I finished my second book for my black belt test! This book is called “The Laws of Simplicity.” The book is essentially about how you take your chaotic lives and try to make them simpler. It talks about how hard it is to drop old habits in order to create new ones, but how important […]

Last week was Thanksgiving Break, so I got a full week off of school. It was really nice to get a week off of school and work because it’s been pretty stressful with how many hours I’m away from home each week. I tried to take it as a way to reset a little bit […]

Last week, my family and I took a trip to Disney Land! The last time I went to Disneyland, I was five years old, and now I am seventeen, so it has been a very long time since I last went. This time was much different than my last trip. It wasn’t waiting in lines […]