ALL-IRELANDS ARE NICE!
Wow, where to begin?
Alright, I'll start with bragging so spare me this for a little bit. I FRICKEN RECALLED IN MY HARD SHOE. They take the top dancers back to do one step down the line in their hard shoe and I was one of them! I never thought I would be, but I was! I'm so incredibly happy.
We also recalled in our ceili and ended up 9th of 27 and considering almost every team was perfect, I'm pretty damn happy with that. Apparently our cross reel was dead on perfect, but our trip was a little botched. Whatevs, I'm just happy with a recall!
Our school did so well. I was so nervous that I would be the only one that didn't recall in something, because almost everyone recalled in at least one dance. We are beasts. I <3 the Gray School of Irish Dance.
In other news, it was the funnest trip. I have not laughed so much in such a short period of time. Highlights included watching Tilly sneak Juice through the security scanners because she needs it for medicineness, writing stories about Matt's Lucky Pants (Matt forgot his dance pants. So, his mom gave them to Katie to bring over because he danced on Thursday. She wrote "Lucky Pants" on the front of the package. We laughed about that for 5 hours) and the indian Falling Drum, me going "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" (like in glory, not fear) really loudly when the TVs came down, me saying "ROUNDABOUT!" when the plane flew over a roundabout.
Then there was Katie and me falling asleep in the car for 7 minutes and thinking it was an hour, travelling around the AIs in a sleepless zombie like state because our room wasn't ready yet, falling asleep by a fire listening to set dances, TAKING A SHOWER!!!, finding the attractive man that is Bobby Hodges and admiring/mocking him whenever possible, fighting for a piece of the floor with Bobby, delivering the lucky pants, Ryan placing, and Katie downing all her food in about 5 minutes.
And then there was the movie that combined ships sinking, people surviving the sinking but still having mental issues with the sea/nightmares because of it, people being amputated because of the ship, both of those people being gay with each other, awkward first kisses and first interactions, getting pregnant before marriage with someone who is married to someone very influential and parental pressure all in a 1 hour movie that solved NOTHING. It was also rather awkward to watch with Mrs. Sharnick...
Friday was the fun day. It was nervous because dancing was right around the corner, but relaxing. We slept until 10 and then watched Lauren's recalls and her set! Woo we were so happy for her! She got 10th in her soft shoe and beat the girl that won the competition. BEAST. Matt burst into a renditioning of My Humps including a line of "my wig is spicy". That was nice. Then practice for a bit with all of the ceili beasts (and Bobby). The rest went by really quickly and mostly invovled dinner, Lauren's awards, me and Tilly roaming while Katie soaked herself and tanned apparently in the nude, tanning ourselves and going to bed.
Really, the most entertaining part was the night. We couldn't go to sleep so it was crazy. Tilly yelled something out in Spanish at one point while I was half asleep and after like a minute Katie started dying laughing and a minute later I, out of nowhere, said "I think that was Spanish...." and scared Katie because she thought I was asleep.
Saturday was great! It was long, but great! We woke up early, got ready and made our way down. I was so focused, I'm impressed with myself now. I put my iPod on with my ghetto rap pump up and just focused. I should do that at feisenna. I danced my hardshoe well, strongly for me and then I got ready for soft which I thought was really good as well, but no worries. I already explained results, so I won't again, but oh it was so exciting!
The rest is mostly a blur, but it invovled a lot of crazy dancing in bars, cars and planes. Some sleeping, but not much. I'm therefore very tired now, hence the horrible writing. But I know if I didn't do this now, I would never do it!
The pictures are on facebook, I'm harrassing Tilly for more tomorrow.
Overall, I'm just so happy. I was feeling really bad about my dancing before I left and now I feel like I've been backed up. That yes, I AM, a good dancer. I'm satisfied now. Empowered. I want to practice, I want to be even better.
I like.
Alright, I'll start with bragging so spare me this for a little bit. I FRICKEN RECALLED IN MY HARD SHOE. They take the top dancers back to do one step down the line in their hard shoe and I was one of them! I never thought I would be, but I was! I'm so incredibly happy.
We also recalled in our ceili and ended up 9th of 27 and considering almost every team was perfect, I'm pretty damn happy with that. Apparently our cross reel was dead on perfect, but our trip was a little botched. Whatevs, I'm just happy with a recall!
Our school did so well. I was so nervous that I would be the only one that didn't recall in something, because almost everyone recalled in at least one dance. We are beasts. I <3 the Gray School of Irish Dance.
In other news, it was the funnest trip. I have not laughed so much in such a short period of time. Highlights included watching Tilly sneak Juice through the security scanners because she needs it for medicineness, writing stories about Matt's Lucky Pants (Matt forgot his dance pants. So, his mom gave them to Katie to bring over because he danced on Thursday. She wrote "Lucky Pants" on the front of the package. We laughed about that for 5 hours) and the indian Falling Drum, me going "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" (like in glory, not fear) really loudly when the TVs came down, me saying "ROUNDABOUT!" when the plane flew over a roundabout.
Then there was Katie and me falling asleep in the car for 7 minutes and thinking it was an hour, travelling around the AIs in a sleepless zombie like state because our room wasn't ready yet, falling asleep by a fire listening to set dances, TAKING A SHOWER!!!, finding the attractive man that is Bobby Hodges and admiring/mocking him whenever possible, fighting for a piece of the floor with Bobby, delivering the lucky pants, Ryan placing, and Katie downing all her food in about 5 minutes.
And then there was the movie that combined ships sinking, people surviving the sinking but still having mental issues with the sea/nightmares because of it, people being amputated because of the ship, both of those people being gay with each other, awkward first kisses and first interactions, getting pregnant before marriage with someone who is married to someone very influential and parental pressure all in a 1 hour movie that solved NOTHING. It was also rather awkward to watch with Mrs. Sharnick...
Friday was the fun day. It was nervous because dancing was right around the corner, but relaxing. We slept until 10 and then watched Lauren's recalls and her set! Woo we were so happy for her! She got 10th in her soft shoe and beat the girl that won the competition. BEAST. Matt burst into a renditioning of My Humps including a line of "my wig is spicy". That was nice. Then practice for a bit with all of the ceili beasts (and Bobby). The rest went by really quickly and mostly invovled dinner, Lauren's awards, me and Tilly roaming while Katie soaked herself and tanned apparently in the nude, tanning ourselves and going to bed.
Really, the most entertaining part was the night. We couldn't go to sleep so it was crazy. Tilly yelled something out in Spanish at one point while I was half asleep and after like a minute Katie started dying laughing and a minute later I, out of nowhere, said "I think that was Spanish...." and scared Katie because she thought I was asleep.
Saturday was great! It was long, but great! We woke up early, got ready and made our way down. I was so focused, I'm impressed with myself now. I put my iPod on with my ghetto rap pump up and just focused. I should do that at feisenna. I danced my hardshoe well, strongly for me and then I got ready for soft which I thought was really good as well, but no worries. I already explained results, so I won't again, but oh it was so exciting!
The rest is mostly a blur, but it invovled a lot of crazy dancing in bars, cars and planes. Some sleeping, but not much. I'm therefore very tired now, hence the horrible writing. But I know if I didn't do this now, I would never do it!
The pictures are on facebook, I'm harrassing Tilly for more tomorrow.
Overall, I'm just so happy. I was feeling really bad about my dancing before I left and now I feel like I've been backed up. That yes, I AM, a good dancer. I'm satisfied now. Empowered. I want to practice, I want to be even better.
I like.