No more yellow belt

After two hours of scary karate grading yesterday I am pleased to say goodbye to my yellow belt.  It is one year on since I started and have now had a red, yellow and newly acquired orange (with green stripe) belt.  The process of grading is incredibly nerve wracking.  We have to come out in pairs in front of a panel with parents and partners of participants watching from behind us.  Our first time out we go through our hand techniques...downward block, upward block, middle block, chop reverse punch, double knife hand block...bow....leave (phew I think one third of the way through).  Next up are the leg techniques...front kick, back kick, step up side kick and step up round kick....bow....leave (phew I think two thirds of the way throguh) and finally our Kata and for me it is called Tan Gun Hyong (I think that is the spelling)...had to do it twice....bow.....leave (phew I think it's over for another three months or so) and eventually my heart stops beating a million beats a minute.