Kung Fu Panda

Can you imagine the moment she thought: Fuck it, I’m actually going to do this, I am going to leave my comfy westernised materialistic lifestyle to head to “a gloomy, dark village in mainland China; dirty and, by the looks of it, still stranded in the Middle Age, completely alone, to learn an exalted form of Kung Fu when I can’t even kick above the waist”? And she followed through, and it’s all pretty damn inspiring.

I wondered if I were to do something similar, what would happen? I would probably arrive at the camp, tweet a few pictures then realise there’s nowhere to charge my Blackberry, get hungry, find my way to Beijing and check into a 5 star hotel. I would blow my whole Kung Fu tuition fees on copious amount of exotic, hallucinatory drugs until the point I think I am Bruce Lee. I’ll end up karate-chopping the bell boy, getting kicked out, never going home out of sheer embarrassment for not following my Kung Fu dreams, and spending the rest of my life working as a male gigolo in the Shen Zhen province. I think I’d do quite well in China.

Thanks to the same Kung-Fu camp in which Pakinam still resides, however, I won’t have to sell my body out of shame. The chance of reaching enlightenment and learning some kick-ass Kung Fu tricks at the Shaolin Dragon Camp is coming to Egypt! From 8^th to 15^th February 2013, the famous martial arts school will be hosting a one week workshop (not for the light of heart) in the beautiful, secluded and serene setting of the Western Desert in the Qasr El Bawity camp (at the Bahariya Oasis).