Business Opportunity

Since we started to feel a little more settled a couple weeks ago, we decided to take up kumdo (Korean sword fighting sport) again. I had just finished my black belt and my wife was getting ready for her black belt test when we left last fall. We've been catching up after forgetting a lot of the forms that we had learned. Last Friday we had a short practice and then we went out with our master for something to eat along with a few of the other adult students. What was supposed to be a social event quickly turned into something of a business meeting. My master said that he wants to open a kumdo gym in Canada and would either like to help us open our own gym or have us help him open his own gym. He said that if we are willing, then he can give us extra training so that we can achieve 3rd or 4th dan within a year. Usually it takes about a year per dan so I expect that this would mean a lot of work. We were a bit shocked by his proposal and told him we'd think about it. We're still not sure but we have to decide soon so we can get started on our more intensive training. We're both excited by the idea but we're also cautious so we need to research it more but make a decision quickly.

We're very happy with our apartment so far but we didn't realize it would be so windy. We can see the ocean from our balcony, although it's far away and behind a row of smoke-spewing factories. The unfortunate part of having the sea so close is that it's almost always windy. In the summer it should be nice to have a breeze but for now it feels like winter still. The weather is slowly warming and next weekend is the cherry blossom festival so we're hoping it's warm enough for a walk around the lake at Oompah Park.