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.
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Hey Amy! Don't worry about trying to be competitive. What's more important than winning is just simply loving to dance whenever you get the chance. There are those that compete so hard that once they leave college, they don't return to dance because they're so exhausted, and I think that that is one of the worst things that can happen. Definitely take is slower if you want, and don't worry. Just the fact that you already know what you know, already makes you a really, really, good dancer outside in the real world. Honestly! =)
ReplyDeleteDid you come to the ballroom club party? I can't believe I didn't dance with you!