Drew Jacoby

Yes, I know that when I decided to come home to Dallas over spring break it was because I needed to rest...but then I saw something online about a master class by Drew Jacoby near by so I had to sign up.

This post won't be lengthy (seeing as how I started it on Sunday), but I just want to make it very clear how cool this class was.

I'll do this by showing you very impressive pictures of Drew, the girl who taught my class.

I'm not sure that she knows how to NOT take an impressive picture. Anyway, it was a contemporary class, not ballet, but wow......it was just so cool. She seems to be a real weirdo, herself, but the kind of weirdo that you want to be more like yourself.

After class she came up to me and was all like, "Oh my gosh, I live in New York, submersed with the best dancers and talent in the world, but I have NEVER seen the likes of you! You must leave here with me and let me take you to New York to let people learn from you." And I was all like, (in my head) 'ha I just made that entire scenario up while I watch her stand 10 feet away from me talking to someone else that she doesn't know about her awesome class.'

Yeah, if that was confusing, just know that I lied about the things Drew said to me about how good I am. She said nothing of the sort.

Well ok, wait I'll give myself some credit. When I went to thank her for class, she asked me if I danced on pointe, and I said that I hadn't in a long time, and she said "Oh, darn, yeah you were amazing in class and I need dancers who are comfortable dancing pretty technically on pointe." I think I'll send her my info anyway, knowing that she will probably never contact me...but I've got nothing to lose.

Anyway, that's Drew Jacoby. Look her up- she's got some awesome videos out there!

Nothin but love,
Bethany

Woah...a lot just happened

So when was my last post? I don't even know (because I can't see the last post from where I'm typing...you can just look down to see how big my gap has been)

Giving you every detail would undoubtedly loose your attention, so I'll narrow my focus and talk about dance. So dance has been absolutely running my life since I got back to school after Christmas break. I was at the studio every day all day in classes and rehearsals. I literally got into the habit of replying to friends when they asked if we could grab lunch or something with, "How about in March?" It was crunch time. The dance program's big annual show, Perpetual Motion, was on the 24th and 25th of February. Normally we do a show on Friday night and a show on Saturday night, but after selling out both of those shows, they added a matinée show on Saturday afternoon. I danced in 5 of the 8 dances each show, so needless to say, I was EXHAUSTED after it was all over and done with.

Funny thing about it being all over and done with was that after we finished our last show on Saturday, it was definitely not over and done with.  We had Sunday to rest and pack, and on Monday 8 dance students left in a 15 passenger bus for Laredo, TX. We were going to a college dance conference called ACDFA, or American College Dance Festival. I think I talked about it a bit last year. However, this year, it was hosted in Laredo. Hmm....Laredo, TX? You might recognize the ring of that from the commercials for the television show featuring Laredo. It's called "Border town Laredo: the war on drugs". We were all pretty alarmed to say the least.

Laredo ended up being a lot less drug-infested than we anticipated...although we never went farther than walking to the huge, white, miniature bus...to the school...and back to the hotel in the creepy white bus. The campus where all the classes and performances were held was A&M international. TAMIU. This got a bit annoying because we were never sure if we were making ourselves clear enough that we came from TEXAS A&M (not to be confused with A&M International). So we always found ourselves over-explaining. "We're from A&M...Texas A&M. In College Station....the real one..............ya know? Gig em." No one really cared to pay much attention to the explanation.

We performed on the first day and then took classes for the rest of the week. We got back yesterday and I slept from about 2 in the afternoon to 8 this morning, getting up a few times in there for food. The whole week (starting on the bus ride there) I read the Hunger Games. I finished the first one in a couple days, and now I am in the middle of the second one. Wow. I really didn't want to like them because I'm a diva and would rather not be caught up in the same trendy books that everyone else is, but there's no denying it- I love the Hunger Games.

If you haven't read the series, there are two boys who love the main girl, Katniss. One is Gale, and the other is Peeta. The author has a way of making you love both of them equally, but in different ways, and I finally realized that the main reason that I was so into the books was that, in the back of my head, I had convinced myself that I would get to have whatever boy Katniss didn't end up with. There were lots of problems with this mindset, apart from the fact that these are fictional characters in a fictional book. However, it reminded me of when I used to watch Ryan Sheckler in junior high and get upset when my friends talked about how cute he was because I felt as if Ryan and I were together. As if he the feelings that I had for this skateboarding teen heart throb were in some way mutual. Embarrassingly enough, this situation reminds me of my Jesse McCartney phase. We won't get too into detail. I'll I'm saying is that remnants of this phase still hang from my ceiling. Now Jesse McCartney pictures seem completely arbitrary, but my bed used to be positioned under the pictures where they still hang....even after we re-decorated and moved my bed. And I'll also add that I wrote him a birthday card on this 18th birthday. He never wrote back. Phase over.

Well I've officially gotten myself on a tangent. I'll add some pictures from ACDFA and Perpetual Motion. If I can get a video up from rehearsal I'll do that too!

Feast your ears, dear readers...I've got lots of free time now :)

Nothin but love,
Bethany