One of the Best Summers Ever

Wow I haven't written in this in like half a year... I haven't had a lot of down time or I just haven't felt like writing.

The title of this is "The Best Summer Ever" which isn't saying much because for the past couple of years I've been having the best summer ever. Although not all summers are the same. Different events happen and you seem to expand your circle of friends and hang out with different people.

Start of summer

The first day I arrived back in Delano it was an ep

ic adventure. I went to work, went to the street fair, and well... had a good time with a few friends at Chris' house. Great times great times!!

That was fun haha

I took my dance job at summer academy and.....wow... that was a brand new experience. There were different kids, different staff members. All in all the staffers were GREAT and the students...well I guess you can say it took a while for them to grow on me. Our theme this year was dedicated to the late great M.J. and might I say our little kids were amazing and so darn incredible!!

This summer there were some drastic in terms of who I hung out with and what I did. I now dance for Public Announcement and I have officially switched over to Studio 661. Which was kind of a tabo in my position. In the end I'm happy with my decision and have grown closer to my friends at studio and P.A. then I could have ever imagined. Thank you to everyone who was involved in my wonderful summer. All of you made it memorable from; late nights, to kick backs, to early morning rehearsals. It was all worth it in the end.

Dancing led to the best show of the summer! If you weren't there YOU MISSED OUT! The Central Cali showdown was amazing!! We had SickStep, Team Millennia, The Philippine All-Stars and Quest Crew! It was AMAZING!!! Public Announce

ment Ended up taking 2nd place in the dance competition. Not bad for our first! Look out for us next year! We have more dancers and I'm sure you are going to see some great things from us!

Here Are a Few Clips From That Night

The Philippine All-Stars

Public Announcement

B.I.S. (My Favorite Part of Their Routine

Studio 661

The Showdown was the highlight of the summer and the rest of it was great. My birthday was amazing and I had fun with my family and friends. Took a trip to Santa Clarita to spend time with my sister and her family. Hung out at the beach and went to see my brother in law at work at U.S.C. Junior miss for the first time was held in Bakersfield for the first time. That was kind of weird...

All in all summer went by way too fast! So much fun in such a short amount of time. I miss you guys at home! I hope everyone is doing wonderfully!

Birthday Cake after I taught my class. Fun times!

Give it up for the Underdogs!!

      For some reason America has this weird obsession with picking the underdog.  I have no idea why but it seems for almost anything everyone will go against the popular teams/people who are favored to win.  Take the super bowl for example.  

     This year on American idol it seemed like everyone was riding the Lambert train.  Which I liked him but I wasn't going to jump on wagon.  Then to add to the fire a lot of Hollywood was backing him etc etc.  At times it got kind of sickening 

how Lambert the judges on the show became at times.  The head judge had even called out his pick early on, two weeks ago announcing that Adam Lambert was going to win the show.

     I think that stunts like this really turn the American people off.  Which is funny because anywhere else it would have worked.  To much surprise and even the shock of his own Kris Allen is the new American Idol.  I'm pleased with the results and thought that tonight was a good show.

     Now that this is over we can finally get to the real show!  So You Think You Can Dance starts again tomorrow and I am so excited.  I can honestly say that this is the one show that I wait for year around.  I'm so excited to see the new talent, tricks, choreographers, etc etc.  It seems like each year the dancers get better.  I'm excited to what new tricks and talent bring to the table this year.  

Now back to studying for that mid term... lame...

Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well

     Every now and then there are sayings and quotes from books that make you think.  They make you look at your life and it makes you wonder what am I doing right?  What am I doing wrong?  Is wrong really wrong or is it wrong because society has led us to believe so? What is right?  Is right right? If it is... what makes it so?

     Being LDS we always here the ever famous word humble... humble yourselves... Which people have led to believe that it's not taking ownership of what you are good at.  I am one of those people that believe that God gave us talents for a reason and we should live up to them, cultivate them, and progress in the gifts that he has given us.  It's not pride it's just truth.  Although there is a fine line that is not to be crossed.  

     On the issue of being meek and humble I've heard people say various things on the matter.  One of the questions was "Do you believe that Heavenly Father humbles his children?"  I am a firm believer in the matter.... I fully believe that sometimes things happen in our life because we haven't been doing what we should and in turn I think it's kind of his way of saying, "You need me!" Although many people would agree to disagree with me on the matter and say that it is because I'm prideful.  Then again maybe they're right... does anyone really know for sure? 

     In saying this I believe that there are miracles.  Moroni 7 comes to mind along with Alma on the chapters about faith.  One verse that sticks out basically says many people don't believe and see miracles because they have little or no faith that one can or may see, feel, or witness one.  

     This week I have been compelled to be better.... I am grateful and humbled all the same.  Why the long note... I felt that this was something important to always remember.  I was reading Hamlet last night and I stumbled across this part. 

Hamlet-Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,

That would not let me sleep.  Methought I lay

Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.  Rashly-

And praised be rashness for it.  Let us know

Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,

When our deep plots do pall.  And that should teach us 

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will- 

This is so true... 

Black and White

So there is this feeling I have... where nothing is good nothing is bad it's just black and white.  There is no excitement and I guess it is for good reason.  It makes me feel like a picture that I had drawn my junior year of high school that my friend wanted me to do for her.  

Yes it is a bit weird and she actually wanted me to copy it from our english book.  So if it looks familiar it's because it is!  I guess for the rest of the night I will calm my nerves and work on some new sketches... My mind was just meant to function artistically and you know what... I'm cool with that. 

Wow long time no write...

So I love SNL but there are certain people that I feel you should never miss because their skits are always amazing.  One of these people is Justin Timberlake!

I will leave it at that and let you see for yourself.  Made my night =)

Long time no write...

     Well I was going to write on various subjects and things I thought entertaining.  Yet no time... between all the homework, dance, workouts, and the ever important sleep.  I've felt so loaded down with work.. since the end of Feb.  People are starting to lose their motivation to do anything school related after those 2 mid terms.  I for one have planned out my two months and when you can see things in writing... it kind of makes you plan ahead for the future and go into a slight panic.  Knowing that there isn't a lot of time left in the school year.

     Right now I'm in fight mode.  Not so much of a panic because I know what I need to do and therefore I'm one of those super self motivated people.  When I say that I will do something, I'm going to do it regardless of what anyone says.  

     I was looking across old religion papers and came across my mission prep notes.  Maybe it came at the right time but I find it perfect for the setting for the rest of the month. 

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." -2 Tim 4:7

So regardless of what happens in the end I can say that I tried my hardest, I've fought the good fight, and I did all that I could.  

Just taking things off my mind

So I feel much over due to write a new note.  There is just so much to write about lately but it is diverting me away from my school work and I have two mid terms next week.  Maybe some other time...I have felt the need to write about immigration and problems from early 20th century to now.  I have also felt a need to address this highly controversial "Big Love" which really just comes to show if your name is Tom Hanks you can get away with anything

In the time being I'm calming my frustrations reading Hamlet.

So here is my quote of the day

Hamlet- To be, or not to be: that is the question. 

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them?  To die, to sleep

no more, and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to.  'Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished.  To die, to sleep-

To sleep, perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,

For in the sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil

Must give us ause.  There's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life-

For who would bear the whops and scorns of time, 

The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office and the spurns

That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, 

To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 

But that the dread of something after death, 

The undiscovered country from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of? 

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, 

And thus the native hue of resolution 

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, 

And enterprises of great pitch and moment 

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.