Remember the days where the RGS team consisted of more than 20 people? Well for RJC, here's the entire rhythmic team, J1s and J2s included:
Tiring day yesterday, from helping the J1s prepare to watching, what, 6 hours of competitions, to a crazy dinner at Seoul Gardens where I felt I was entertaining a bunch of 4 babies (the J1s) ... but it was fun, and Amy and I kinda realised we missed all that.
The glory of winning trophies galore for yourself and for your school,
the thrill of walking onto the mat and hearing people screaming your name and seeing all the videocams suddenly pointing in your direction,
the special bonds you forge as a team training and sweating and crying together,
the way we fear laoshi and get pissed off at her but we then love laoshi so much,
all the little things like the exchange of gifts and goodluck notes, the rush to take photos with the piles of medals after every competition, the celebratory dinners,
I guess ever since we 'retired' last year, we'll never have such an experience again in our lives. This is pretty much it, for us J2s, all those years of gym finally coming to a halt.