Exam

So this post is about the exam I am going to have on the 28/11 and I am really very anxious. To start out, the exam begins as 8:30, and my plane will only arive from WOC at 9:30 so I will probably not be able to do it. After the exam, which is a group demonstration of combos such as punch kick and so on, there is a tournament. The tournament is part of the exam and is very competitive because winning the Katá or fighting tournament can mean a passing in the exam. In my case I am going from purple belt to brown belt, which is a very hard test since it is already very advanced. I talked to my karate teacher and he said that if I dont make it to the first part of the exam but do a really good job in the tournament I can probably get the brown belt. Even if I dont, it is always good to be noticed and present amoung the karate community; the more important you are and more you appear the greater your dedication will be, making the examiners more linient on you since you practice a lot. I really hope to get there in time because I want to become a brown belt. If someone asks you about what belt you are and you say purple it doesn't mean anything; in fact purple is the second belt in aiki-do, yet everyone knows that bieng a brown belt means you are one belt before black belt.