I noticed today that the flag at BYU was at half-staff today. It is in honor of the pope, who just recently died. I thought that was awesome that our university/religion has enough respect for another religion and recognizes the great things that the man has done as a leader. I just thought it was really cool.
Life in general is great. Today though, was a sucky day. I woke up feeling incredibly sick, so I went back to bed until about 1130. Was still feeling sick, almost skipped dance, then I had remembered today was a full class day for our dance groups to work together. For our final, we are, as groups or soloists (I was in a group), to choreograph our own dances to our choice of music for our final evaluation. I decided to do group, partly because I've done solos all my life with baton, maybe 4 or 5 dances was with a team in baton, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Well I should have taken it as a sign the first day we were deciding to be groups or soloists, pretty much everyone got into their own groups right when the teacher said to get into groups. I was the last one left....so yeah, that wasn't a good feeling, but decided to just shout out and see if anyone wanted/needed/wouldn't mind another person in the group. I swear what felt like 5 full minutes went by, it was silent until finally one group had said I guess we can use another person (yes in those words). So yeah, I just shurgged it off. (background information, a lot of students in my class are nervous about testing with me, we have to test in pairs, because I'm deaf and they know I can't hear all of the music. Funny thing is, every single evaluation my highest marks are on musicality, meaining keeping with the beat and the music). So, we get in groups, we are given the rest of class to figure out music. Well my group had decided to blend in two songs together that in my opinion don't match in the first place, but they all seemed to really want to do it, so I figured hey, I'll just go with it, 3 against one, yeah, better to go with it then seem like the whiny wench. So, we try to meet together again in the next class time, the girl who is supposed to put the music together before this class time didn't, so we aksed her to do it by this class time, and she still didn't. So we still had no music, we couldn't do a whole lot without it since it's a blend of two songs....we don't know where the girl was gonna end one and start the other. A little frustrating. There was four of us, one girl left and decided to do solo after that. We have yet another class time to meet, same girl who is to do the music doesn't show up, but sends the music with her friend, and the other girl in the group feels we can't do anything without the first girl, so wants to get together to practice after class later that week. I agree, we meet after class, turns out, both of them decided they couldn't do it after all, and want to meet after class LATER on in the week, I say sure, I'll change my schedule around, no problem. Lo and behold, they decide not to do it. We had yet another class time to figure something out, but the two girls felt we needed to listen to music or something, I can't rmbr what happened, so we agree to meet again after class on Friday, I am to reserve a room, so I did. We have class Friday, then after class, one girl decides she wants to eat lunch with some friends, so asked if we could meet later. Before I said anything, the other girl said yes, but needed to meet around 5 or something like that I can't remember. They agree, so thus...I'm stuck, and I'm kinda miffed that i had to go through the trouble of reserving a room and so forth and it ends up not being used, makes me look like a flake to the building, but oh well. So music girl and i show up, the other girl didn't show up, called music girl and said she had to finish soething up and she would be on her way, well....a whole hour and a half later, she never shows up, yes I actually waited that long while music girl went and did some stuff at home and was waiting for a phone call from me just in case the other girl showed up. needless to say I'm extremely frustrated. Today, Thursday, we have all class period to work on it again, the first thing the two girls say is, do you think we could meet Saturday morning to practice, almost ready to scream here, we have to perform in less than two weeks, and we have not gotten a single ddance move planned, we've had THREE weeks to do this, and I've been trying to do my part. But lo and behold, one girl says that we should try and do some work during class (gee I wonder why that would be so convenient!) So we start working on it...we end up just only decideding who will do their solo parts here....that's it, no dance moves, nothing. Music girl leaves, other girl is still there, though I didn't know it. Teacher sees i'm frustrated and asks how everything is going, I break down crying cause I'm so sick of trying to make this work but it's not working, and explain to her what happens, in the end we both decide it'll be better for me to go solo. So that's what i'm doing. But i feel bad at the same time as I'm leaving the group when we have just under two weeks to get the dance done and everything, but I tried my best and did my part, and I've made no prgoress thus far, so I'm going to do it on my own, at least this way i'll make some actual progress.
sigh end vent here. :)
Other than that, life isg reat! :D
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