Yeah, outta the 9 days the first 4 were easy coz it was all paperwork and we stayed at the master's cottage. It was a group of 8 schools and we picked the one with pretty girls.
Anyways, no fingernail push ups

It was just a wrong school choice maybe, coz the dorm was at the base of the mountains and the bathrooms were up on the top. You go trekking each time you want to take a shit. The meals were abundant but you wish there were none, its healthy alright but hard to swallow, this comming from a guy who probably has eaten the weirdest and the worst of things. You wake up at 3:30, not for any heavy fancy kungu fu learning but for
tai chi. An hour of that follows 30 mins of learning to stomp your foot with some rythm they tried to explain but none of us foreigners got. Drinking water was frowned upon and green tea was the substitute, im not even sure if it was tea we just called it that.
You being a foreigner should be prepared to be asked about the size of your dick, A LOT. Almost all of the time its boys who do the questioning, you will even get requests to show it.
All these are basics and i can go on and on, the hard mental and physical stuff starts after the month i guess, didnt wait to find out.
What you can do is get enrolled into schools in beijing and Hangzhou, these are foreigner friendly and though it will be tough by our standards problems like toilets, water, food or electricty will not exist. Then again it wont be much different from enrolling in one of these schools in your own country.
You wanna be a legit Shaolin product then go to Henan province to Shaolin village. At least the place is good to visit and spend a few days with. All the temples belonging to the 8 schools have virgin female priests and you would wanna marry each one of them. Worth a visit just for that.