Day 11.259: Karate progress

Exile #4 and I were talking about how long she had done karate in New York and what we both remembered about it. One of the questions we couldn't answer was how long she had been doing it before we moved. The answer is - a little less than a year. She started after her birthday in June 2013:

and she moved the following April (I had already been living in Maine since November which is why I remembered even less about the old dojo).

At the time, I had no expectations of how seriously she would take it but now it's hard to imagine her not becoming this young lady fighting off three people including a grown man with a stick: