Thursday, April 26, 2012
have fun
As some people might already know, dance has been really disheartening for me the past few weeks cos no matter what I did, I just couldn't concentrate and get all the steps to go into my head. After class usually I'd review the steps and various points Fredy brought up but for the past few weeks I left class with my mind a complete blank.
But today, for some reason, was completely different. It could be, in part, due to the fact that I've been really happy this past week. I can't remember when the whole being unable to catch choreography streak started but I know the very first week after it began I always sort of dreaded class more and more each week. I guess because I felt I wasn't improving and I was disheartened but today I've learnt that I have only my bad attitude to blame for my lack of improvement of the past weeks.
I went to town really early today because I tagged along with Sheryl and Eielson, so after I got to Somerset I went to tap my card at O School and then I loitered around. I went to Forever 21 and bought a pair of jeans :-) It made me really happy hahahaha I like the jeans a lot usually I hate wearing jeans but this pair is so comfortable. (But then again I suck at buying clothes so maybe I'll realise something bad about it only after I've worn it for a while)
Before I returned to O School, I made a resolution today: instead of griping about how badly I'm dancing after seeing myself in the mirror, I will change my thoughts to something positive and work repeatedly to figure out how I can do the steps better :-) so today in class I really really focused.
Fredy also gave out a lot of tips (as usual) and he mentioned our shoulders as being very important; he also repeatedly emphasized "having fun". Every class he always tells us to "have fun" but I never realised how important this was until today. Hence today's class was really fun and it seemed like finally I made some progress after weeks of being stuck in a rut.
On a side note, there's this gay guy who is a common face at our class as well. He usually tags along with one or two other girls... I don't notice the girls a lot though. The only reason I noticed him was because he would always be behind Zeikei and I. Plus he always goes on jabbering quite loudly hahaha. But one week when we did a choreo involving quite a bit of floorwork, Zeikei got pretty pissed at him cos he kept kicking her hand accidentally.
Last week (or was it 2 weeks ago?), he turned up with two other girls, but one of them went to the washroom just as we were about to head into class. In order to get a prime spot in the studio (the spot that Zeikei and I usually take), he rushed into the studio the moment the doors opened, threw the bags at the back, and sat on the floor immediately, spreading his legs apart (ok this sounds really wrong but you get the idea) so he could take up as much space as possible ._. Zeikei and I shot each other a look, and because there wasn't enough space, I sat down behind him instead. I didn't look at him directly but I could see him stealing looks at me to try and see my reaction and smirking/sniggering to himself what the hell O_O
Since then I have had a bad impression of him and I'd make a sarcastic remark here and there about him to Zeikei. Because we always stood in the same segment of the studio, when we split up into groups at the end of class, I never noticed how he was like when he danced because I was obviously distracted by what I was doing. Today, the same thing happened and he took our usual spot again so Zeikei and I went to the other side of the studio instead. I've asked Zeikei before if this guy is a good dancer cos she usually notices these things and she remarked that he's terrible. I was quite dubious though because I've never really seen anyone really bad in class at all! Even the newbies – they look awkward, but never bad. So I was glad we went to the other side today because I was looking forward to seeing him dance.
In the last ten minutes of class I did see him dance and he really was terrible. What was terrible about it was that he wasn't even trying. He could do all the steps but he never did them seriously... He just moved around a little. After that I felt quite bad for him cos it may be because he isn't good, which was why he wanted to take our spots – so he could learn better in class.
However, Zeikei has this theory that it might be because he's gay, and he's interested in Fredy HAHAHAHA so he goes to his class without really trying and/or he's too starstruck with Fredy to focus on dancing LOL
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