Entry Five:
This morning I was up early but the class begins at nine hundred hours and forty-five minutes, so I have some time to kill before then. I rose with the dawn; it was easier today than it was the other day. Perhaps I'll get used to it with practice.
Since I had several hours to kill before my class, I went to the gardens to meditate. I think I'm going to add this as part of my routine in the mornings. I just felt so peaceful afterwards; I nearly didn't want to come out of meditation.
It's so refreshing.
After meditation, I met Sian and Kyran and Shane for morning meal before my class. Shane said he could always see me as a teacher, though Sian feared for my sanity in agreeing to teach five-year-olds. He said the knighthood must have been affecting me more than he had originally thought and if I start accepting jobs like that on a regular basis, then he's going to have to take drastic action. I really don't know why he's so concerned; five-year-olds with lightsabers aren't exactly that skilled enough to do much damage yet.
Besides, it'll definitely be good experience to get to know some of the younglings a little more. It will be useful when I reach the time to look for an apprentice if I interact with some of them on a regular basis, though I'm getting ahead of myself. It will be some time before I'm ready for my first apprentice.
After meeting with them, I went to the gymnasium practice room and did some stretches to prepare for my class. They arrived not long after that. I have twenty initiates and I spaced them out through the practice room and we did breathing exercises first, then we began work on some of the very basic steps for Form I, running through what they already learned.
One of the initiates did catch my eye, however, as being particularly skilled. His name was Obi-Wan Kenobi. He ran through the forms easily, until he fumbled at the very end and lost his lightsaber. It went clattering away from him to the other side of the gymnasium and there, another boy picked it up. I had to intervene to get him to give it back. The other boy's name was Bruck Chun.
There's clearly a rivalry between these two. Hopefully they will grow out of it in their later years, though.
The Force is telling me to watch them carefully.