Temporary breathing time...
...but only for a day or so. I have been rather busy since the last time I blogged. I got back from Pennsylvania and found myself really behind in my school work so I have been trying to catch up on that. I have had at least one midterm each week and will continue having that until classes end in the beginning of December. Ahhh, gotta love the life of a student :-S Right now I am just wishing I was done already, but I know that when that happens I will miss some aspects of this crazy life I lead right now. And it would also help to know what I'm going to do with my life!
So on top of all my school work I am in the process of choreographing 26 routines for my girls to get them ready for their competitions. Half of those routines are to music, half are on the beam, each one of them must be unique and fit to the personality of each girl. I have almost completed 2 of the floor routines, barely started another floor routine and half done one beam routine. Oh, and all of these routines must be done before Christmas! I have my work cut out for me!
Speaking of my girls, so many of them are mad at me! We are approaching competition season and they need certain skills to be able to compete at certain levels. They have gotten really lazy and don’t care to fix their mistakes or try hard enough to fix them. I will not have my girls go into competitions feeling unprepared so I will not take the laziness anymore and so I have been making them do things they don’t want to do. I have been pushing them hard to try to get them to where they should be working and they don’t like that very much. I have been asked by several parents why their children are mad at me and after explaining the situation, the parents totally back and agree with what I’m doing. That is always nice!. It is a competitive sport and compared to what I went through, they have it so easy!! I just want them to do really well and learn new skills and perfect the ones they have because I know as that happens, they will continue loving the sport and have a desire to keep learning. If I don’t push them, they will never learn, if they never learn and are only there for the social aspect, they won’t love the sport anymore and the parents will pull them out and I don’t want that to happen.
I have decided that some of the courses I wanted to take next semester I don't really want to take anymore so I have to also figure out what courses I do want to take and see if those courses fit into the schedule of my required courses and hope there will be space in these courses. I really wanted to do a course where you dissect a human cadaver but I don't think they offer it anymore :-( and I have heard from so many people that the prerequisites for that course are insanely difficult. I was thinking about taking both of the prerequisites next semester but I think I would like to keep my sanity! Then again, I recall back to my first year when I took biology, chemistry, physics, calculus and computer science all at the same time and think that if I survived that, I'm sure I could do the anatomy prerequisites. I'm still debating about that one, I have a couple more months to decide what I'm going to take.
I watched a movie the other day and I was kind of shocked. The movie Grease is rated PG I think but I was paying attention to the content that was presented in the movie and was dumbfounded. I remember going to a dance camp when I was about 10 and we had a musical theatre class. In that class we sang Summer Nights for our little show at the end of the week and did a bit of dancing and acting in it. I was Sandy :-) but what amazed me the most is that the teachers let little kids perform to such a song. Maybe they hoped most of the kids didn't understand what it meant or they assumed everyone did know, I have no clue. And then I just recalled right now that the following year we sang Copacabana! In my opinion, those aren't the types of songs I would be letting kids sing and dance to especially at that age but I guess that is me and why I got fed up of dancing at the typical dance studio and the style of dancing that was taught.
Well I guess I should either do some homework or get stuff together for tomorrow – I have at least a 12 hour day at school tomorrow. One good thing about taking dance courses is that I get to go see dance shows, it just stinks that it’s on a Wednesday. Hopefully I will take some time out soon to write again. I enjoy writing in my blog, that’s why I started it, even if no one reads it, I still like writing it!
I will end it at that until I get another small gap in time with which I can blab some more :-)
So on top of all my school work I am in the process of choreographing 26 routines for my girls to get them ready for their competitions. Half of those routines are to music, half are on the beam, each one of them must be unique and fit to the personality of each girl. I have almost completed 2 of the floor routines, barely started another floor routine and half done one beam routine. Oh, and all of these routines must be done before Christmas! I have my work cut out for me!
Speaking of my girls, so many of them are mad at me! We are approaching competition season and they need certain skills to be able to compete at certain levels. They have gotten really lazy and don’t care to fix their mistakes or try hard enough to fix them. I will not have my girls go into competitions feeling unprepared so I will not take the laziness anymore and so I have been making them do things they don’t want to do. I have been pushing them hard to try to get them to where they should be working and they don’t like that very much. I have been asked by several parents why their children are mad at me and after explaining the situation, the parents totally back and agree with what I’m doing. That is always nice!. It is a competitive sport and compared to what I went through, they have it so easy!! I just want them to do really well and learn new skills and perfect the ones they have because I know as that happens, they will continue loving the sport and have a desire to keep learning. If I don’t push them, they will never learn, if they never learn and are only there for the social aspect, they won’t love the sport anymore and the parents will pull them out and I don’t want that to happen.
I have decided that some of the courses I wanted to take next semester I don't really want to take anymore so I have to also figure out what courses I do want to take and see if those courses fit into the schedule of my required courses and hope there will be space in these courses. I really wanted to do a course where you dissect a human cadaver but I don't think they offer it anymore :-( and I have heard from so many people that the prerequisites for that course are insanely difficult. I was thinking about taking both of the prerequisites next semester but I think I would like to keep my sanity! Then again, I recall back to my first year when I took biology, chemistry, physics, calculus and computer science all at the same time and think that if I survived that, I'm sure I could do the anatomy prerequisites. I'm still debating about that one, I have a couple more months to decide what I'm going to take.
I watched a movie the other day and I was kind of shocked. The movie Grease is rated PG I think but I was paying attention to the content that was presented in the movie and was dumbfounded. I remember going to a dance camp when I was about 10 and we had a musical theatre class. In that class we sang Summer Nights for our little show at the end of the week and did a bit of dancing and acting in it. I was Sandy :-) but what amazed me the most is that the teachers let little kids perform to such a song. Maybe they hoped most of the kids didn't understand what it meant or they assumed everyone did know, I have no clue. And then I just recalled right now that the following year we sang Copacabana! In my opinion, those aren't the types of songs I would be letting kids sing and dance to especially at that age but I guess that is me and why I got fed up of dancing at the typical dance studio and the style of dancing that was taught.
Well I guess I should either do some homework or get stuff together for tomorrow – I have at least a 12 hour day at school tomorrow. One good thing about taking dance courses is that I get to go see dance shows, it just stinks that it’s on a Wednesday. Hopefully I will take some time out soon to write again. I enjoy writing in my blog, that’s why I started it, even if no one reads it, I still like writing it!
I will end it at that until I get another small gap in time with which I can blab some more :-)
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