Help for grading

My mother is doing her 2:nd dan taekwondo grading or 2:nd dan simsa. As a senior student, my job is to help and support her. This means that I have to help her with the korean, poomses and encourage her and that my own training is non existing. She needs all the time she can get with Max, our coach. It is a good tradition in taekwondo that the higher grades need to help the lower grades. Max told me that when he didn't know the poomses, his coach threw him out of class, and the senior students helped him to learn. It is quite tough and many different things to go through during a grading, especially on the higher levels. An interview about your mental approach to fighting is crucial and the grading usually takes 4-6 hours. I also put in the application for my 3:rd dan grading. I'm not eligible to do it in one year, but the application process is very long, so I might as well do it now. Everything is being handled by the Kenyan Taekwondo federation, so they and my coach decides when it is time to apply. In that sense it is good that I have to support my mother now. I'll get  a refresher course of the things I need to know, mainly korean terms and the poomses (movement patterns). I still know that I have to work hard to get my third dan. The toughest part of the grading is fighting the simsa kwan. They are usually 5:th to 6:th dan and it is hard to put up a good fight with a guy who ranked high in the world championship. The grading is also a  time for learning from the simsa kwan, so you are not meant to know everything he is testing you on. This is hard to know in a grading situation and every time I've thought I failed. After all my gradings I've been physically and mentally extremely tired and it takes a couple of days to recover. I think we are going to take a break over christmas after my mothers grading! I hope she is going to make it and I know I will help and support her as much as I can.