What people actually did with the pencil, not how they rate a room.
These accounts name a lesson, a constraint, or a piece of homework. They are not a score. One of them is mildly annoyed, which is closer to Tuesday night than a row of stars.
I came in able to name every candlestick pattern on a laminated sheet and unable to say where last week’s four-hour demand actually sat. By week six I was arriving with the zone already drawn and the laminated sheet stayed in the bag.
The London-open walkthrough is quieter than I expected. Arun will let a fifteen-minute candle close without speaking. That silence did more for me than the commentary, though I still wish the afternoon ended with a clearer 'we would be out' line — I had to write that sentence myself on the bus home.
Malee sent my first chart pack back with three of five drawings struck through and a note that I had mixed the hourly into a daily argument. It stung. The second pack I sent only had daily lines. She still complained about the width of the zone, but at least the timeframe matched.
The homework is heavier than the seat description suggests. I fell behind in week four until I blocked Sunday mornings for markup. Once I did that, the zones I brought on Tuesday still meant something on Thursday instead of getting painted over overnight.
We spent Sunday afternoon marking unnamed daily charts while the real dates were covered. I guessed a break that the following week never honoured. Nobody in the room pretended they had seen it coming. That was the first structure lesson I trusted.
Private mentoring was ninety minutes of my USDJPY scribbles being reduced to two lines. I had wanted a new method. I received permission to stop drawing the inner Fibonacci fans I had copied from a forum.
Longer notes
Two stretches of work, told in order.
Helen’s week four stall
Helen joined the spring classroom after moving to Bangkok for work. She could already place orders. She could not keep Sunday markup against a Monday start at the office. By week four her zones were being drawn on the BTS and did not survive London. Arun asked her to drop the London-open walkthrough she had also booked, keep the classroom nights, and give Sunday morning to five daily charts only. She did. Thursday recaps stopped being a repair shop for Tuesday’s decorations. She still says the brochure understated the homework. We left that sentence on this page.
Somsak’s two packs from Chiang Mai
Somsak cannot sit the eight-week room until a posting ends. He sent five hourly charts with vendor arrows still visible. Malee declined the pack, asked for his own lines, and received a second set drawn only on the daily. The comments were about leftover supply from a prior week, not about whether he should have been short. He booked a mentoring sitting for a week he will be in Bangkok. That is the sequence we prefer: distance markup first, then a chair, not the other way around.
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