Tai Ji Quan in Boston 太极拳
July 5th, 2004
Wednesday evening June 30th I was surprised to see my housemate Sarah and her mother waiting for me outside of Peet’s Coffee and Tea in Harvard Square. It was a beautiful evening and we walked back together in relative silence. I was tired and chatting in Chinese is still somewhat difficult for me and likewise for the mother in English so we three just walked through Harvard Square back home.
As we were approaching home the mother asked me if I knew how to do the Tai Ji, you know the slow exercise that the Chinese are quite good at. Where they do these hand motions and leg movements and stuff like that. I learned a bit of it in CHINA the first time but never went beyond the first lesson which is basically how to move and try not to laugh while moving.
So upon arrival at home the mother pulled out a tape and we watched as she went through her “routine”. It was beautiful and graceful and quite impressive. The tape played half music and half instructions as to what move was next and she performed flawlessly.
Then I got up there. I wanted to impress her too, but when Sarah ran to get her camera I knew I had moved from impressing them to just being a laughing stock. So I ran and got my camera too. Enjoy!
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