Done!!!

Finals are over for the semester! That means Disneyland is tomorrow night! I think I did well on my final today! I am so ready for a break!!

Final Count...

There was no pun intended in the title. The BIG portfolio is for my final and it came out to be 94 pages total. This includes the title page, table of contents, index, appendices, pictures, graphs, and the actual content of the portfolio. Phew! I can now put that aside and focus on my dance final tomorrow. It is going to be tough. Everyone thinks I am way good at dance and that it comes to me easily. WRONG!! I have to work for it and this is my hardest dance final so far. Yeah, I will be happy when it's all over and I can go to Disneyland for a few days and relax!!!

Longest Outline Ever

As I have mentioned before, finals start tomorrow. One of my classes requires a portfolio as the final, so all I have to do is go to the teacher and hand it in then head to my next final. The portfolio is a pretty big portfolio as we have been putting it together since the beginning of February. Until this morning, we were not required to have an outline for our portfolio. Now, we must have one. I wrote out the outline (it doesn't have to be typed) and have already hit six pages of an outline and I am not even half way finished with it yet. I am trying to meet all the requirements for this outline and put the finishing touches on the portfolio. All in all, I estimate (with the outline attached) to have a 70+ page portfolio by Tuesday to hand into my professor. Oh, the life of a college student. I will be glad to hope on a plane to California...Disneyland in three days!!!

Oh and as an added bonus, my friend Ryan, who is serving in the U.S. Marine Corp might be coming up to visit me while in California. He is stationed at a base in California, but ships out to Afghanistan on May 9th for a highly classified mission (he said he can't give me too much detail or else he would put people in danger). All I ask is that everyone prays for our soldiers. He is going to a dangerous part of Afghanistan and has a 50/50 chance of coming home alive. I am so grateful that I have a friend willing to fight for my freedom!! Thanks buddy!

Finals Week and DIsneyland

Yes, it is Saturday and finals week has not technically started yet. However, I thought I would at least post a blog regarding current happenings since my last post was about the successful season my performance group was given. I can honestly say, now, I rarely know what to do with my time. Every morning I would wake up with a list of things I needed to do that day. I would start and then lose the motivation to continue, so then I would go hang out with my best friend Brian. Now, I am sitting at the computer that sits in my room (since the fan in my other computer decided to die) writing this blog. I started the day by taking Brian to the airport (he will be in various parts of California this week), then I got right to work cleaning my room. I made my bed, started a pile for dirty clothes cleaned off the night stand and cleared enough of a space to get on this computer. I feel very unproductive today, but hopefully that will change once I get off the computer. I have a HUGE list of things that I must get done this weekend or else I may stress a whole lot.

Finals start on Monday, but I am not too worried about most of them yet. One of them is a group presentation and 50% of the grade was whether or not we showed up to Thursdays class, preparation for the presentation (which happened on Thursday) and grade check, so I have at least a 50% on that final already!

I am way excited for what happens after finals...DISNEYLAND!!! Last time I was in Disneyland, I was a wee little thing and barely remember any of the events that took place. It will be nice to be in California again and to not have to worry about school for a while!! I will be taking loads of pictures!! Wednesday night can't seem to come fast enough.

Now, back to cleaning...

Utah Bound..

I a still in Ohio waiting to board a plane back to Utah. I am very sad. Friday was the very last performance we had together as a team. I love all of them like my family and yet, I have to leave them behind once I reach Utah. We will have a banquet in May and some summer clinics where I will learn to be an effective teacher and help teach many classes to other performers and directors as well. But since most of those are not mandatory, I don't know when we will all be together again. After finishing out the season with the 13th spot in the entire world out of 104 groups, I can honestly say I am proud and honored to perform alongside people I love.

To Susan Raymond, my other mom aside from my real mom and Momma Dupaix. How I love your wisdom and the trust you gave to me to care for everyone else because I am the oldest. Thanks for taking me under your wing and trusting me to do almost anything.

To Sumer Addy, my mentor and friend. Thank you for trusting me to take your movement and your show (your "baby") to another level. Thanks for allowing me to grow so much as a dancer and for helping me gain the confidence to to go foreward with my dance career.

To Cory Oliver, my friend and the brother I felt I never had. Thank you so much for loving me more than I loved myself and for never judging me. Thank you for helping me understand my potential and my excellence, even when I felt I had none.

These people taught and trained me to be the best and now we must part ways. Sumer and Cory are potenitlly going away and I will not be with the group next year. I see Cory regularly as we are going to practice for bigger auditions and bigger plans!

I am holding back many sorrowful tears at the moment, but it will all be okay.

13 is not so unlucky...

Why? Because that was our final palcement for World's!!! We accomplished our goal! We wanted top 20! The fianl fifteen go to finals! We got the 14th spot going into finals but came out with hte number 13 spot in the end!!! It was a very productive week!

Brief Update

Yes! In Ohio and it is so beautiful here. Mostly, because it was almost 80 degrees yesterday. A far cry from the blizzard we had in Utah on Monday. Plus, I get to be with a lot of cool people! We perform today as a show-n-tell a few times, then dress up for dinner and go watch other groups! Tomorrow is the ultimate day! We figure out a projected score and placement. Finals are so close and we hope to make it to top 15. Now, I am sitting in the hotel room, waiting to go to rehearsal and do a performance today! Here we go!

Dayton Bound

Going to Ohio! Be gone from April 6-11th. Wish us luck. We are in a great spot to potenital take finals! My love to all!