An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
I like keeping track of my schedule during various seasons as I’m a teacher so I have a clear, rigid schedule that only lasts for 4 months before changing again. So this probably won’t be the most interesting post, but…
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Of course the first thing I did after coming back to China was run to my court to play badminton. But it’s basically the only thing I’ve done because this place is friggin hot! Anyone with any sense is staying…
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Even though it’s been a week, even though I’ve been diligent about not sleeping during the day and going to bed later at night, I STILL have jet lag from America. Two nights ago I fell asleep a 1am, only…
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I’m bacccccckkkkkkk. I carefully lugged my precious racket, shoes, knee support and sweat towel 7,861 miles (12,650 km) from China to America for a mere 5 days of play. Even though I barely played it was worth it. In fact…
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So after three years I’m finally headed back to my native land for a small summer holiday. My original plan was to bring my coach and show him around America while continuing our training. But dumb TRUMP and the dumb…
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Thank god my schools summer holiday started a few weeks ago because badminton has ramped up and who has time for work these days?! In the past 8 days I had THREE tournament and I played almost every night. An…
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As I’m at the courts so often, I see a lot of stuff that goes on in the daily life of a badminton court and I’d thought I’d share a few pictures. Life in a Chinese court is different than…
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During the semi-finals of the Indonesian Open I saw something I had never seen before. The American flag! This is big news in the badminton world because America has never produced any outstanding players and right now Zhang Beiwan is…
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This weekend I participated in the national Yonex Ladies Badminton Tournament tour in Xiamen. Might as well get the bad news out of the way….we lost. We didn’t just lose, but we lost spectacularly. Out of 9 games we only…
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We won! We won, we won, we won, we won!! Second place in women’s doubles at the university competition. I’m not gonna lie though, we should have won first. Our final opponents were good, PE teachers and lifelong athletes, but…
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