Today I got up at 4:30am to join my host mom and about 100 other people in their daily 5am-7am Thai Chi excercise at the local park. It was still dark, and, for a change, relatively cool, when the Thai Chi Master started giving instructions over a microphone - in Vietnamese. An 80-year old Vietnamese man who spoke French gave me instructions and corrected my posture...After about an hour and a half - the sun had come up - everyone took a break - and all of a sudden I was asked to sing a German song for everyone - over the microphone! Having 100 smiling faces looking at me in a very encouraging way, I couldn't say no...as a thank you, they sang a Vietnamese song for me, and invited me to come back the next morning, when they would have a birthday party for all club members whose birthday is in September.
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I did not know my mom doing thai chi. I thought she is doing wu-shu. Whatever! :))
Hi Moon! Yes, you are right, she does Wushu, but she took me along to do Thai Chi with the group next door to her Wushu class...
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