Confession of a bad femenist: Sometimes I wish I was a boy.
Today as I sat (wearing my Grandfather's old clothes) in the theatre wanting to swing swords around with the guys- and turning to Ian and saying "Oh we learned that in grade 11 PhysEd"- I was once again struck by this thought. This tomboy-thing has lessened considerably in the last few years. My Saturday nights are no longer dictated by Hockey Night in Canada, I no longer feel the need to CHUG beer, and I've even worn a skirt to school... once I think... Ah but today. I wanted to learn to sword fight!
I'm not an overly violent person, I just LOVE swords. And I was absolutely on cloud nine when Paul, the fencing instructor let me join in.
en garde...
THRUST!
SWING!
PARRY!
STAB! STAB! STAB!
Although I have no practical use for it, I now know the BASICS of stage combat with foils. I am certain that at some point I can learn to extend this to broadswords and lightsabers when necissary. Maybe I can play Viola someday and actually do the fight scene...
I guess I don't have to be a boy to have fun with swords :)
2 comments:
I seem to forget the "stab stab stab" move. Maybe because I still can't stop running through Paul's vivid description of the sword leaving the body.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go and vomit.
p.s. my verification word is "mscon." Is there a secret war going on between blogger and microsoft?
I think it's actually a code for the secret Microsoft Conference about aligning with Blogger for their out and out war against Yahoo.
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