An Excellent Day

Today was much busier than usual, but it went very well. Tai chi was just wonderful. It was enough like what I remember that I felt comfortable and relaxed. Since I only learned a couple of basic steps, I have no excuse for not practicing them. Also, I now have motivation to work on some leg strength exercises. My muscles got very tired very quickly in the tai chi class in Russia too, and I'd like to avoid build too tired to hold a pose.

After tai chi, I came home and found Joel sawing the piece of wood to go on top of the dishwasher. He finished that up and sanded it, then we put linseed oil on it. The result looks quite good.



After a few more chores, I headed off to the writers' group. It was lovely! There were quite a few different people than last week, so I got to meet a bunch of new, interesting people. Just like with the tai chi group, I was able to communicate with many more of them, which made it easier to connect in at least some way with them. This brings up an interesting question about how fluent I need to be in a language to really be close friends with someone who does not speak English well. I wonder how well I'll manage to do with Portuguese.

So, anyway, yeah, a lovely day all around.