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So classes this week have pretty much been nonstop reviews for me. On monday I went over all the two man fighting sets needed for testing. And in the beginner class went over all of the beginner forms. I even did them all while wearing the rings. I am thinking of doing that for all of the beginner classes. I did not want to do it, while everyone was learning the forms, however since we just finished springing leg, and we are just going to be reviewing it. I think I will start doing it every class now. What was intimidating though, was thursday. On thursday Rob did not show up on time, and we had a new student. So I took charge, and started the warm up procedure. Guided the blocking drills, etc. Once Rob got there he offered to let me teach the class, which I declined, as you know he is a certified instructor, and I am just a student. However after the beginner class, I was working with Bill on 20 methods two man, and Rob comes up to me, and says “Thursday, thursday”. Meaning that my test date has been set for thursday. As in this thursday, 3 days from now. I would be lying if I said I was not nervous. I am going to class a half an hour early today in order to be pretested by Rob. So he can tell me what last minute things I need to work on before I test in front of Sifu. Hsing Yi was also just a review class, running through the two man fighting sets. Come January things are going to get crazy though. I will be in the advanced Shaolin class, learning new material, and I will be starting Pa Kua, so that will be new material. I may go into information overload. Its going to be awesome.