The beginer class is cool!

I spent this morning scanning another slice of meteorite and teaching a grad student how to use the x-ray machine. It's probably going to take all week to get him up to speed but that's OK.

Last night I got to help out with the beginner class again and it was awesome! It's so motivating to see the students in that class because they all try so hard and everything is new to them.

Sometimes it's easy to forget how exciting it was, and overwhelming, when I first started training. There seemed like an infinite amount of information and it was all so fresh and new.

I guess it's the same for the grad student I helped today.

He was so excited and thought the machine was so cool; he had trouble with the simplest task. But I have to remember, not that long ago (2 or 3 weeks) I was in the same boat and I had to be taught.

Kung-Fu is the same. That's why the beginner class is so awesome. You get a glimpse of the excitement in the students, that sense of awe that we sometimes forget.

Everyone in that class has a good attitude and try really hard. That's inspiring.

It's hard not to be inspired to do your push-ups when you see the students giving it their all in class, struggling to do their push-ups but doing them anyway.

Thanks Sifu Shipaleski for the opportunity, it was really awesome!

And thanks to the beginner class for being so darn cool!