The Competition Mindset
I’m one of the most competitive people you will meet. I take Fussball at the local bar as serious as the Olympics, and I can even be bratty about birthdays. (“You’ll never beat me,” I say to younger people on…
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An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
I’m one of the most competitive people you will meet. I take Fussball at the local bar as serious as the Olympics, and I can even be bratty about birthdays. (“You’ll never beat me,” I say to younger people on…
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For those of you living outside of America there is a major international holiday called Women’s Day on March 8th. Don’t know why America completely ignores it but it’s big in China. Women are allowed a half-day off work and…
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The only thing that outshines my obsession with badminton is writing. While I have been less willing to travel (my third life obsession) for badminton, I obviously haven’t been willing to stop writing because of it. I mean, I started…
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We got 5th place! Out of 16 teams!!! Sure 1-3 would have been best, but I’m actually really psyched and a little relieved. I was afraid that we would do so much worse. I’m the kind of person who gets…
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Next weekend I have my first badminton competition (that I didn’t organize)! Woot! Woot! Ironically, one of the foreign teachers told me about it, not my badminton friends. He had a local friend who told him of the local “international…
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This weekend was the 2016 Becky Cup! The event I have been planning and thinking about for months. How did it go? I’ll let the pictures do the ‘splaining: If that wasn’t stressful enough, at night…
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With a week and a half to go, the Becky Cup is shaping up nicely! I wanted to give an update. The medals (which had a bit of a snag in the proofing process), came out great. Super great! I…
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This week was a big badminton week. Monday was a holiday (Tomb Sweeping Day) so no school. But I tutor a young boy every Monday and we still met. His father is a badminton player (he’s been playing 3 times…
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Six months ago I made some goals. Let’s see how I did. Goal number One: Be the obvious best girl in my current group. I’m not quite the number one girl, but I’m certainly in the running. My biggest problem…
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Sometimes sports suck. The challenge is so real, and so “in your face” failures can hit hard. Like tonight. I had my class, and it was exhaustive, but awesome like normal. Then after, my teacher found some people to play…
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