Scholar Project 2010

[Mark CH]

Hi Mark:

Here is a link to that church: It is part of Dublin Castle and it is stunning inside. You should pay it a visit next time you are in the capital.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_Royal_%28Dublin_Castle%29

Smile from the Heart,
Joan

Thank you Sije, wow it really looks amazing from the picture. It must be so much more to be there in person.

[Joan]

Galway Medieval city Tour

My Dear Shaolin Wahnam Family and virtual Kwoon readers,

Another day has been lined up for the Irish students.

This time in the Medieval city of Galway. We will embrace many of the Scholar aspects in the morning tour and enjoy Shaolin Chi Kung and Wahnam Tai Chi Chuan training in the afternoon.

Time: 9.30am -12.30pm - Medieval city Tour
12.30 -2pm- Lunch
2pm -4.30pm- Special Training

Meeting: Eyre Square, Galway city.

Professional Guide and Historian: William Henry.

I look forward to seeing you there

Smile from the Heart,
Joan

[Kevin_B]

Dear Friends,
The guided historic walks of Irish cities continued last Saturday with a tour of Cork. Starting at St Finbarres Cathedral – an iconic building in the city - our journey took us in time from the days of Saint Finbarre to the present and geographically from the cathedral, through the city centre, and onto Shandon on the Northside. A local historian and politician, Kieran McCarthy, was our excellent guide for the day.
Having lived in Cork for over twelve years I was quite amazed at how much I learned about the city and its evolution over the years. There was so much detail in the streets that I had missed before, detail which offers a glimpse into the lives and customs of Cork people long dead.
One of the highlights for me was Kieran talking about the position of the quay walls on Proby’s Quay in times gone by. They extended to where streets are now built and listening to him describe the past, while watching the cars zip by in the present, I gained a small sense of the continuing passage of time. Standing there, listening to him, the ‘then’ and the ‘now’ offered a beautiful contrast to the one thing they had in common: the place. It somehow allowed a sense of perspective onto the many generations of men and women who called Cork their home from a time before even my Grandfather was born.
An excellent day out.
Thank you Sifu for starting the scholar tours and thank you to Kieran for being a wonderful guide. And thanks to all the other warriors for making the day so enjoyable.
Some photos to follow.
Best Wishes,
Kevin

[Kevin_B]

Here are some photos of St Finbarres Catherdal.
Its stunning.

More to follow...including one of the leaning Tower of Cork!

[Robin]

Beautiful

That is one beautiful building!

Best

Robin

[Anthony S]

I had a taste of the Scholar Warrior project last week during the Wedding Celebration week in Penang.

I participated in the Singing and/or Voice course. I have to say that it was very unique and a lot of fun. Certainly people can benefit by broadening their horizons in a course like this.

[Kevin_B]

Some more pictures from the recent scholar tour of Cork City.
As promised, the leaning tower of Cork!
Well okay, the leaning apse of Cork is more accurate. The apse forms part of Christchurch on South Main street (which will soon be reopened as part of a well-known arts centre). You can see steel straps bracing the apse in the picture.

[Kevin_B]

We visited the Cork Vision centre as part of the tour and spent a while examining its scaled physical-model of the city: a wonderful means to get an overview of the city.
And yes, that is a crocodile made of plastic bottles perched on the model.
(Or is it an alligator?)

[Kevin_B]

Crawford art gallery.
(One more post to come: Church of St Annes.)

[Ronny]

Maybe once I will try the singing course because to be honest singing was always my weakest point!

[padraig]

Scholar Warrior day out in Cork

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the photos, had a great day out learning the history of Cork City and had a fantastic lunch in great company.

Shaolin greetings and thanks to both you and Sifu for the day and I am looking forward to the next one........in Limerick!

[Peter Clayton]

Kevin Sihing,

As ever your photo's are a joy to look through

I am certainly sorry I missed this one - Limerick Scholar Tour here I come!

[Joan]

Dear Kevin,

I am sorry for not posting before now, had some internet connection problems!

Thank you for organising a wonderful tour and day. Although Cork city is where I trained as a nurse, I was amazed by what we saw and learned about the city and its people.

My special thanks to Kieran, our professional tour guide and to all the Shaolin Wahnam Ireland students who turned out for the day.

Thanks for the photos Kevin.......we can always rely on you to have the camera at the ready

Limerick Tour is on November 13th and my appreciation to Padraig for organising that one!

Smile from the Heart,
Joan

[Joan]

Limerick city Scholar Project Tour

Dear Shaolin Wahnam Family,

Just a reminder for the Irish students that the Limerick city Scholar Tour takes place on November 13th. Meeting at 9.30am. The tour will finish around 1pm when we will have a group lunch and Shaolin Chi Kung/Kungfu and Wahnam Tai Chi Chuan training afterwards.

We will take in the sights of this medieval city and Hugh Lane Gallery under the guidance of a professional tour guide.

These tours are extremely interesting and an excellent way to enhance our knowledge of our beautiful country.

We will add some photos for everybody after the tour as there are some beautiful pieces of architecture in Limerick city also.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Smile from the Heart,
Joan

[padraig]

Limerick Tour

Greetings Wahnam Family,

The limerick tour was a great day out and fun was had by all. Our tour guide, Noel Curtain gave us a great tour of the city, bringing alive the history of Limerick and telling some funny and interesting stories about his time as tour guide to the Clintons and the going ons of the CIA.

He started off the tour with an interesting fact that Limerick is divided into three parts: Newtown Perry, English Town and Irish Town, Newtown Perry being the modern part of Limerick with English and Irish Town being the oldest part, where you would find Kings John Castle and the border walls of the old city. This set the tour of to a great start and made the tour enjoyable to follow as it flowed from one part of Limerick and its history to the next.

After the tour finished we had a short walk around limerick and went for lunch with some great conversations and laughs. I enjoyed the day and would just like to thank Sifu for organising and giving us the chance to meet up and go on these tours and all I can say is i,m looking forward to the next one.

Padraig.