Post Conference Interlude

Jean Katus, Ft. Yates, ND

What a capper to the conference energy I had last night! Went to a Japanese restaurant for dinner where the hibachi tables are set up for eight. Besides a couple at the other end where we simply exchanged “hello’s,” a group of three Taiwanese were seated at my table. We were all a bit shy with one another at first until the man initiated questions about TCC. (I still had on my t-shirt from the conference.) It turns out his computer company has sent him to San Jose for graduate study and that he’s seeing a trend in Taiwan of younger people beginning to be involved in T’ai Chi now–more so than the previous prevailing attitude that it was mostly for “old people.” Everything began to loosen up a lot and we were soon all laughing and joking a lot. Such fun! We parted by exchanging business cards and bowing to one another.