First promotion
I was both surprised and honored Thursday night when my teacher told me he was promoting me to two stripes.
It may not be that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but it feels nice to be rewarded after all this hard work over the past four months.
The ceremony today was nice. We had around 100 students show up and all of the instructors were there. The best thing was that our teachers’ professor was there all the way from Sao Paulo, Brazil to give them another stripe on there black belts.
He gave a speech in Portuguese that was obviously translated into English for us. One thing he said really stuck with me. He told us that if we felt like we deserved a higher rank, then to keep working hard and prove it to them for re next belt promotion. If we felt like we didn’t deserve the rank (I fall into this category) then the instructor obviously sees something in us and wants us to work up to the level we think we should be at. Needless to say, I’m going to continue to work as hard as possible and be the best I can be.
