few quick notes

Eric is back for four days, and I am super duper excited to see this beloved former president again. I still remember when I was new to the team, I was always intimidated when Steve asked us to grab someone to dance. And Eric always helped me out. I think if without him, I probably would not survive my first ballroom semester. The team has changed so much with different president-- different leadership, different team atmosphere. I definitely feel the atmosphere of competitiveness is much more with Alex as the president-- it's not a bad thing because the team needs to stay competitive to earn the scholarship, but I sometimes feel a bit tired and useless because I am just not a competitive person.

Joseph threw his graduation party. It was alright-- basically just drinking and "dancing" while you could not move your feet at all in a student apartment living room packed with 70 people. The cop came, and we were off.

I have to start a partner search again, but after this semester, I feel tired of dancing on the team. I feel I was thrown into a team that is too high for me, and the partnership made me very weary and somehow lose confidence. I want to get back the feeling of love and dance. As a slow learner, I want to take it slower. But I really love doing ballroom dancing, so it is really a dilemma.

Although it may sound like a loser, but I really like one of my friend/teammate's comment on competition for us who learned dancing for a short time-- "It's like you learned how to play the piano for 3 months, and then you were crying for losing the competition of playing Do-Re-Me and could not understand how come other people play Do-Re-Me so well." Well, I guess it is somehow not that true as for the ballroom case, but it is definitely very comforting.

Today I watched the clips of WSS 2009 of Yulia, Joanna, and Anna dancing Rumba. I like Yulia and Riccardo's the best. Joanna and Michael are amazing in speed and precision, but it just did make me feel that touched as I was holding my breath when watching Yulia and Riccardo. Slavic is in a new partnership, but they are good.