A Midterm

Tuesday was karate testing and it was my first time doing a midterm which is in between a recommended black belt and a real black belt. A recommended black belt is half red half black and you have to test 3 times for 3 black stripes you get put on the belt.

The 4th time you test is for your black belt and that's where you have to break boards and stuff like that. Recommended is training to break the boards and stuff like that. I just got my first stripe put on.

They have a point system for midterms which is how they decide if you pass is if you have enough points from when the judges were watching at testing. Its really stressful because they judge your points on:

1. If you have good stances
2. If you yelled in the correct places (or if you yelled at all)
3. How loud you are
4. How snappy your form was
5. If you were paying attention to where your target was
6. And everything else

To get the most points you have to do everything correctly on all 5 forms you have to do. Perfect points would be 270 points. They showed us our points when we went to get our belts and I got a 250. And since they take off points in tens that means I only did 2 things incorrectly!

I think that's pretty good for my first time doing a midterm. I'm happy. =)

My weird-but-cool poem

For writing on Monday I had to write a limerick. A limerick is a poem that has 5 lines to it and the first 1st,2nd and 5th lines rhyme while the 3rd and 4th lines are different from the others but they also rhyme. I think its kinda dorky but my mom said to post it anyway.

So here goes:

The outer banks was so much fun

Out on the beach where we watched crabs run

We say it rain a bunch

We went out to eat for lunch

Too bad there was no sun

Don't laugh I know it sounds weird but its harder than it sounds!