Mr. and Mrs. Conley took time out from their bike ride this afternoon to visit the Shady Lawn Antique store today.
To find out what hidden treasures Mr. Conley found while exploring the inside of one of Walla Walla’s own hidden treasures, clickl over to Mr. C’s comic book blog.
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The students, teachers, families, and friends of Beginner’s Mind Dojo are sparking up to indulge in another bike ride!
The anticipation is high and the bicycles are ready!
To find out the time, date, riding map, etc. for this bike ride, check out the Beginner’s Mind Blog.
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Beginner’s Mind assisted Valley Residential Services with Relay for Life at Walla Walla’s Borleske track.
Please visit the Beginner’s Mind Blog for details on this memorable event.
A recent scare has Walla Walla parents realizing that, though the town is small, there is still potential for danger!
Reports have been coming is regarding a child predator who is stalking the elementary school areas. This is a serious matter and one that Beginner’s Mind School wants to make plainly visible to fellow Walla Wallans, both as a school that helps children and as teachers that are also parents.
We have posted a host of information that we found in order to help you protect your children now as well as the next time this might happen.
This last weekend, some members of the International Fook Yueng Chuan Association took advantage of the 80+ degree weather and began raising walls at the Beginner’s Mind School. The construction didn’t get finished, but with the help of Dr. Dale Fetroe, Mr. John Humble, Jay Sullivan, Patrick Keenan, Rick Morgan, and few others, we managed to do a fantastic job and, hopefully all enjoyed ourselves at the same time!
The instructors and students of the Beginner’s Mind dojo gathered on Sunday morning at the dojo with bicycles and picnic supplies and headed out into the warmth of the Sunday morning.
The ride was kept at a casual pace so that the half of youth students that attended were very comfortable and well taken care of throughout the trip. In order to avoid large amounts of traffic, Mrs. Conley led the large group of cyclists primarily through back streets as our traveling band of merry martial artists enjoyed the sun and conversation while casually working toward our destination at Rook’s Park, just outside of Walla Walla.
Traveling from the West end of town to the East, one does not appreciate the incline until it is experienced on a bicycle but the climb was enough that we stopped once for the sake of our youngest student as she caught her breath at Pioneer Middle School. After continuing our trek, we wound our way to the bike path that runs along Mill Creek and followed it the rest of the way, enjoying the sounds and sights of the water as it rushed in the opposite direction in the creek beside us.
Once at the park, the first thought on everyone’s mind was the glorious idea of food! We packed out our sandwich gear and side dishes and the gang showed their diversity as each sandwich was compiled just a little bit differently. This was probably the least vocal part of our trip as every person was so completely enamored with their lunch, but that still didn’t stop the discussions or joking that stayed high through the entire excursion!
After everyone got their fill, games quickly followed, such as frisbee, horsehoes, and especially a modified game of badminton which saw friendly jibing, broken rackets, and more than one tackle! The hours passed by far too quickly and before anyone was ready, it was suddenly time to go.
The one thing all of the attendees were thankful for was the downhill ride all the way back to the dojo, which afforded the relaxation and ability to tour through some of Walla Walla’s historic homes.
Through online study and internet research, Mr. Conley came across this fantastic youtube video composed by Tom Callos from www.ultimateblackbelttest.com and would like to share it with you.
These are things within the Beginner’s Mind Dojo that we strongly resonate with, not just as instructors, but as parents.
Thank you Mr. Callos for your insight and wisdom.
Congratulations go out to the following students of Beginner’s Mind for their excellence in skill and technique as well as their perseverance and dedication through their belt test in the fields of katas, self defense, kickboxing, and other areas:
John Humble, graduating to Green Belt!
Kevin Kmineck, graduating to Yellow Belt!
Paul Partida, graduating to Green Belt!
Rose Sarmiento, graduating to Green Belt!
Honorable mention goes to Jesse for his first test and great aptitude!
Walk A Mile In Their Shoes
This event is happening THIS Sunday and the The Beginner’s Mind Dojo is showing our support and assistance by providing students, instructors, family, and friends as crossing guards for this event. If you would like to assist and be a volunteer crossing guard, please contact Mr. Conley at mrconley@beginnersmindschool.com so we can get some prepatory work gathered up.e.
THE INFO:
Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, walk against child abuse.
Sunday, April 26th, 1-4 pm.
Meeting at the courthouse.
The walk itself begins at 1:10 and will cover a single mile (in a circular route, beginning and ending at the courthouse).
Walk A Mile In Their Shoes
VOLUNTEERING:
Meet at 12:45 pm near front steps of the courthouse for coordination.
As crossing guards, your time required at the event will only be as long as people are walking. Mr. Conley plans on staying afterward in order to enjoy the day and perhaps help with cleanup.
Mr. Conley