Crazy chick with a sword!
Dec. 20th, 2006 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_ytI've been exchanging e-mails with the head sensei of the Princeton kendo dojo, whose school was recommended to me by my friend Marjorie's teacher. He's being very helpful, offering to let me join his carpool to classes since I don't have a car of my own and arranging to get me some equipment.1 He also says that his policy is to let prospective students take a month of free classes before deciding to sign on.
The only problem is that it conflicts with my Sunday brunch at Bryn Mawr, but my time would be better spent getting exercise (and hitting things with sticks!) than eating way too much college cafeteria food as I usually do on Sundays. Although I also go there to see my friends, I can still visit on other occasions - besides which, most of my good friends who attended High Table have already graduated.
Plus, my mother will probably be happy about the opportunity for exercise and social activity that this will provide, although I don't know what she'll think about my learning to swing a sword and the possibility that I might someday compete in tournaments where people basically smack each other with bundles of cut bamboo.
1The supplier for his dojo offers a uniform and set of practice swords for about a hundred dollars, which is a very good price for decent (or even halfway decent) equipment, which might otherwise run from $150-200 or more. This does not include a set of practice armor, but it will be a while before I'll need that.
The only problem is that it conflicts with my Sunday brunch at Bryn Mawr, but my time would be better spent getting exercise (and hitting things with sticks!) than eating way too much college cafeteria food as I usually do on Sundays. Although I also go there to see my friends, I can still visit on other occasions - besides which, most of my good friends who attended High Table have already graduated.
Plus, my mother will probably be happy about the opportunity for exercise and social activity that this will provide, although I don't know what she'll think about my learning to swing a sword and the possibility that I might someday compete in tournaments where people basically smack each other with bundles of cut bamboo.
1The supplier for his dojo offers a uniform and set of practice swords for about a hundred dollars, which is a very good price for decent (or even halfway decent) equipment, which might otherwise run from $150-200 or more. This does not include a set of practice armor, but it will be a while before I'll need that.
