An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
So let me figure out my costs in December and then I can add them all up to see how much money I’ve spent in 2015 (well, basically the last three months of the year, since my spending was negligible…
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China has several national teams and they have a national series. It’s called the China Badminton Super League (CBSL) and my friends Xiao He, Rebecca and I watched the top two teams fight it out. For you Americans, it was…
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So, I was watching the Dubai World Series Finals live on Youtube the other night. It was my frist time watching any of these games live (I only realized thanks to a link on Facebook) and it was cool to…
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I’m basically doing no presents for anyone this year…with one notable excpetion. Badminton people! On tuesday I gave everyone in my group a little gift. A birdie keychain. I bought 20 because I never know how many people are going…
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Every week I recap how my week in badminton went. I play three days a week: games with my regular group on Tuesday and Thursday and class with my teacher on Wednesdays. Tuesday was a good day. We had a lot of people sign up for…
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Every week I recap how my week in badminton went. I play three days a week: games with my regular group on Tuesday and Thursday and class with my teacher on Wednesdays. Tuesday was great as usual. Felt good, played good. I was fresh from the…
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So, ever since I’ve gotten into badminton, there have been constant tournaments which the best of the best have played. Every day on my facebook and youtube there are highlights and awesome match videos to watch. I knew they were…
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Where I come from, New England in America, we experience all kinds of weather. Way more than the typical four boring seasons. We also have mud season, black fly season and so on. In fact, there is a joke about…
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So I stumbled across this article, which was one of the highest shared badminton articles on Facebook this past week. It was shared and liked thousands of times (about 48k). The article is about Gronya Sommerville, an Australian up-and-coming player…
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Hey there, welcome to my new blog! Maybe you came from my other blog, or maybe you are totally new. Let me ‘splain what this is. Who is Becky? That’s me. I’m an American girl who has been living in…
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