hiiiiiiiiiiiYA!!

I SPARRED tonight at karate!! It was so much fun!

Ok ok I spent the first half having the other guy (a white belt) (ie, the lowest) (actually, I'm the lowest because I don't even have a white belt yet) (next week) make mincemeat out of me and the second having a 15 yr old girl (in a purple belt ok) make mincemeat out of me. But it was very exciting.

I'm taking lessons with Tali out at Koondrook. 6pm Wednesdays. 5 bucks. Doug, a 65 yr old ex cop who showed me the bullet wound in his knee and where the bullet went in and came out. The men there have been really good for Tali.

(Oh, and I won at tennis last night - 4-6 6-5 6-2. I thought they had us at 1-3 in the 2nd, but we brought it back and won the tie-breaker, then shot out to 5-1 in the last set. It's so beautiful up here in the evenings playing tennis - the courts are set in a huge natural ampitheatre with tall trees on all sides of the footy ground and you can see an always-orange sunset light up the whole sky. Corallas (sp?) abound. They're pests, but you sure know you're in the country when a huge shrieking mob of the bastards come shooting past in the evening sunsetlight.)

Wish you were here.