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Well I didn't make the dance major, worse than that I got cut after the first round. It is so hard do know why you got cut when it isn't always judged on your technically abilities. I feel like maybe the Lord is wanting me to go in another direction, but I don't know what that is. I am pretty frustrated that I didn't even get invited to show my solo. Only about six people didn't make call backs. Everyone else either got called back to perform their solos or they got accepted straight out. I am just annoyed that they really couldn't let the six of us who got cut do our solos would 10 more min have been that big of a deal. Anyway I am now spending my night trying to figure out where I go from here. I am going to minor in Folk Dance because I still really want to teach it, but unfortunately I need a major in order to graduate.
Any suggestions?

Halloween Utah Symphony

Lin and I went to a special Halloween Utah Symphony performance. It was so much fun. They played some "Scary" music like In The Hall of the Mountain King. It was a costume concert so we dressed up. We are supposed to be the two old men on the muppets, but really we just look like old men. It was really fun and pretty funny to see ourselves bald.

SPAC

HURRAY!!!! I got invited to audtion for SPAC. The Folk Dance SPring Performing Arts Company. They are the back up team. Auditions are on the 4th of November. If I make it I will have a class this coming winter semester and we will have our own show. Then after the semester is over we will tour around to the elementary schools in Utah County and do shows for them for a few weeks. It would be so much fun. I really hope I make it. Plus one of my closest friends from Folk Dance also got invited so hopefully we both make it.

Well I was going to post a video of my solo, but I can't get it to work. It takes too long and blogger times out.

Dancing. . .

So I audition for the dance major on the 30th of October. I am soooooo nervous. If I don't make it I am not sure what I will do. I want to teach dance, mostly clogging and possibly some Folk dance stuff as well and to teach in a studio I don't technically need a degree. I want to get one though just to have one, because I think they can be very beneficial. The problem comes in if I don't get in the dance major. I thought about transferring to UVU but if I want to teach Folk or clogging they don't have any classes that will help me. I have been exploring other majors at BYU but I feel I already have my generals done and a lot of dance classes just to help me feel ready for the audition so I will be heading on another two to three years if I change to another major. Plus none of them even remotely interest me. I will probably end up in Family sciences or something just to get a major. :( So wish me luck...... I may need it.

Modern Dance

So I got my scores back from my Modern dance class. I was kinda bummed because I only got a 77% on my technique test. Today I found out that most people felt like they did well and then got a really low score so I don't feel as bad. I think my teacher just has very high expectations of what a A or B student is. So I thought I might be really struggling to pull an okay grade in the class. I also have a composition class right after that one (they are taken together) that I had a solo test in. Basically we had to choreograph a 2-3 min solo using movement that we naturally like to move in and then movement that is not in our comfort zone.
I was really worried about mine, but after she gave me a lot of good comments; more than she gave to everyone else. When I got my score today I got a 25/25. She really liked it. I don't know how I got a perfect score on it but I was amazed, especially because some of the other people I would have expected to get really high scores didn't. I don't know what she saw in mine, but it was a real confidence booster that maybe I can do this.

Rise and Shout!

So last week we ended up with free tickets to the BYU football game vs Florida. My boss had tickets to give to a sponsor, but no one wanted them so Saturday morning he asked if Lin and I would use them. We did and it was a lot of fun even though BYU got smashed.


The funny part of this story is that last night Matt (from work) asked me if I would want the tickets he had to todays BYU game. His wife had some other stuff going on and he needed to watch his kids. He didn't know Walker had given me tickets to last week's game. Later I found out that Walker once again had extra tickets and gave them to Matt. Matt hadn't told me they were from Walker and I hadn't told anyone at work that I had gotten tickets last week. Anyway no one wanted them so I got free tickets from work two weeks in a row! Which both my boss and I found pretty funny since his giving us tickets was kind of a secret and now I ended up with them twice. CRAZY!
Hopefully this game is a little more exciting.

New Calling

So Lin and I were released from being Primary teachers. We were sad, but I am now the Laurel advisor in Young Womens and Lin is the Teachers advisor and something with scouts. So it is pretty nice we both go to mutual on Tuesdays and its a lot of fun. We only have 5 Laurels 2 that are inactive, 2 that are active and 1 that is kinda in the middle. I am enjoying it though.

School is also going really well. I had my first contemporary dance test today and my choreography solo test is at the end of the week. I am much more worried for that one since it is a solo and it is our own composition. I am loving my Folk Dance team and of course my favorite class is clogging :)

Christmas Around the World

So I know this is kind of early but I am super excited. This will be the 50th anniversary of the Folkdance Christmas Around the World show and I get to be in it! My class is doing a Polish number and we get to wear all of the Polish costumes BYU has from over the years. It is going to be amazing!

Rufus We Love You!

So the sad news is that we didn't get to keep our puppy, Rufus. We only really had him (while he was healthy) for a few days, then he got sick, then he got even more sick, then he got a little better, we brought him home from urgent care, he stopped eating again, and we finally put him up for adoption. I am really sad because he was so wonderful those first days before he got sick, and he is the cutest dog I have ever seen, but I just didn't have the time or patience, or money to keep force feeding him and taking him to the vet. I really hope someone wants to adopt him that has time to be with him constantly until he can fully recover. I miss him but know that we gave all we could. Rufus we love you!!