T and Grand Master Wu (7/25/2019)

T got to spend some time learning from Grand Master Chi Lin Wu today. She loved his forms. She said his kicks were great. Grand Master Wu has won Gold Medals all over the world for her poomsae including 3 Gold Medals at the World Championships. She is a National Coach for Chinese Taipei and an International Referee. T got to get a picture with her tonight before we headed back home. What a great opportunity to spend time with someone who is great at poomsae and T will be doing his pretest for his poomsae next week. Such a timely session he got to have with her today. 

What I really loved about her is she reminded me so much of Grand Master Cann. It seemed that for a moment we had her back with us in some small way because GMaster Wu and GMaster Cann are so much alike. Their personalities are extremely similar. Trying to communicate with her has been a challenge because she speaks very little English but rest assured that she found ways to communicate that the kids and us adults could understand.  If GMaster Cann were still with us communicating with her would be a non issue because we’d have a translater. It’s good to know, though, that we can move forward in the midst of the loss we’ve had to deal with since February. We feel GMaster Cann’s loss deeply everyday. She had so much wisdom beyond her years. We wish we could have bottled up all she knew so we’d have it to pull from when we need it. Now we are having to pull her wisdom from conversations we had with her. Our memories are our guides now as we face a future very different from what we thought it’d be last year this time. God is good though. He’s knows our beginning from our end and He knew what He was doing by giving us only a short while to know such an awesome woman. I’m glad we got a glimpse today of her in spending time with GMaster Wu.  I love T getting such great opportunities like he had today.