Buddhist Monk For a Day

We had an early wake up this morning. We got up at 4::30, which for sensible people is still the mddle of the night, and had morning prayers at Shao Lin temple with the buddhist monks in the temple's great hall. While the chanting was on Sanskrit and we didn't understand it didn't really matter because if it was in Mandarin we wouldn't have understood it either. The prayers lasted about an hour, but it was amazing to comprehend that we were in midst of prayers with monks in the birthplace of jung fu. After prayers we had breakfast with the monks, and then helped with chores around the temple.

We then went back to Small Dragon kung fu school and had another two hour workout, but this time we got weapons! After working near to exhaustion we got a break for lunch, had a quick rest, and then it was back to the school for two more hours. We are working on a traditional combination of Shao Lin kung fu to perform for the monks tomorrow. While its been quite trying I'm sure we will all pull it off excellently!

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