Weekly Mandarin: 7

7th Edition: Yujia

Kate and I decided to have an adventure by signing up for some dance classes at the local community center. Since we couldn't get dancing shoes shipped in fast enough, we decided we'd ease into the whole classes-instructed-in-Chinese thing with some nice easy yoga, or yujia.

HA. The class is taught by a 46 year old mini-Amazon. And it's half aerobics and half intense stretching with some yoga poses. For example: while trying to get me and Kate (both former dancers) to clench our butt cheeks really tightly together during plank, she took out a toothbrush and held it between her buttocks. She is my hero. And we're planning on taking the class until we can do the same. Besides that, we'll come out of the whole year with a great vocabulary of anatomy and movement verbs.