Yesterday at karate, two of my close friends, Elinor and Avi, got their second stripe on their brown belts! I have been training with both of them for around five years, and I have grown very close to them over the years. Over the years its been a back and forth of all of us […]

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 […]

I think that the biggest thing that I have fallen behind on is my mileage. I thought that I would have this one down pretty easily. My dad and I would go on bike rides anywhere from 10 to 20 miles. However, it very quickly got cold, and our motivation to hop on a bike […]

Yesterday, my JROTC unit held its annual Military Ball. This is one of my favorite JROTC events each year. It’s essentially like prom, but just for ROTC students. The girls get to wear long prom dresses and it’s all in all just a really fun day with all of my friends. My friends and I […]

Nothing super interesting has been going on recently, so I am going to just give a little life update. Since I started this test, I have gotten much more used to having to do my daily numbers every day, to the point where the task isn’t as physically daunting as it once was. It still […]