The Random Life & Thoughts Of Me

Bang Bang!!

2010-10-28T19:31:00.000-07:00

It was another summer filled with dance, dance, and more dance.
My work was dance.
We had studio practices wed, Friday, and Saturdays.
Then we had Public Announcement when ever we could fit it in.

There were days when quite literally I had dance from 11:30-10 at night.. insane.This year Public Announcement decided to theme our dance. It made the process about 20 times harder... because we needed to make sure that all the parts of the story fit. Which isn't always easy. It's like a dancing story book without words..if you will. For those of you who didn't get it.. our theme was CLUE! Hence the Murders and robbers. Yes?
This is just my opinion but this year was way different from last year. I don't know what it was.. it just didn't feel the same. Last year we were so charged and ready to go. We knew that we had something to prove to people being a newly formed group. We loved being at late night practices and spending soo much time together. We were all so close.This year we did what we said we weren't going to do and procrastinated. At the start we were so ready to dig in and get into choreography. Remember the feeling we all had when we learned the first dance? How excited everyone was to be back with each other. We were all so stoked about the new set and the new choreography. What happened to us? As the summer progressed and we all progressively had different obligations our choreography was rushed, especially the last two dances. I don't think that anyone can refute that. We learned those dances like the last week.... We didn't have group unity...often times we would show up to practice already irritated with each other and if we didn't feel that way at the start some people felt that way at the end. Then when we were there we were sectioned off in groups or dealing with egos. Yes egos... it was obvious that some dancers thought they were better than others. You are not good actors.Our Sat performance was absolutely terrible! Partly due to the fact that we were fighting before we went to the park. I don't know what was said and done because we were getting outfits but I know Brian and I came back and the mood was tense. I got my gun though! That was a lot of fun. it even shot things! Thankfully Sunday we came back refreshed and ready to go and we worked that performance out.

Late night practice

Group Picture

One of the fun things of summer was Spocom Long Beach! That was a fun day! Went to Long Beach with my best friend Adrienne Moe, Daughter Ashlee, and Ron Telefron! And Cousin Leslie. We had a hilarious morning!!

Me: "I gotta stop and gas up..."

Moe: "Good cause I need a gatorade.."

Me: "We are gonna stop a Mickie D's and get breakfast."

Moe: **freaks out! "YES OMG IT'S LIKE YOUR READ MY MIND! THAT'S JUST WHAT I WAS THINKING!
Backseat: Wow...

Ordering...
Moe: "Man what the hell? I feel like I'm in the Philippines.. LOOK! We are in the Philippines damn..."
"Wakey Wakey!"

Big Kahuna: "Recalculating"
Me: "Damn... again?"

That competition was a lot of fun and a great learning experience. It was cool to be with groups like Common Ground, Pac Modern, etc.Group picture
Funny one!

Our Performance =)

Pac Modern 2nd Place

1st Place winners Common Ground

She Got it!!

2010-10-26T17:36:00.000-07:00

My Summer Recap part 1!

WORK: Fun, hard work, rewarding, chill, hilarious. GREAT TIMES! How many people can say that about their job? I can honestly say that I loved waking up everyday to go to work. How many people get to work with their best friends? Then play sports and dance all day long? It's heaven! Might I add the dance group was the best team ever!! Dre, Rjay, and Jasmine as the un-official assistant. What more could I ask for? There were so many laughs! So many great inside jokes. Here are a few...

Calling the roll

Dre: Jasmine?!

Student: Here!

Jasmine (Assistant): I like your name!

Student: Thanks I'm named after the flower.

Jasmine: I'm named after you! *big smile

Student: *Left with a confused look on her face

"they don't suck, they're just not good"

"Are you hungry? I'm hungry? You want food?" -Our everyday dilemma.

"Cass and Dre are awesome!!! I love them!!!" -The stolen phone incident.

Students: "Are we going to listen to Justin Beiber today?"

Me: No! I cant' stand that kid. (The everyday question and answer)

Me: "Hey Do you guys know this song?!" * Pushes the play button the song starts.

"Ooohh Ooohhh... Oooohh oh! I know you love me! I know you care!"

Students: *screams of joy* they all start singing the words at the top of their lungs. They dance across the floor and sing.

That was foreal cute!

"Stupid girl!"

Rjay: "Stop touching the curtain!"

Student: **Looks at Rjay.. still holding on to the curtain and pulls.

Rjay: *Holds back from yelling

Dre: "If you guys aren't going to dance you don't need to be here! You can sit down!"

Rjay, Jasmine, and I look back with confused faces haha!

Students: "Where is chardonnay?"
"I don't know who chardonnay is... but Sharday is over there."

"Do I need to call Sharday!?" -the infamous threat

Student: "Can I get water?"

Me: "Have you gone across the floor 8 times?"

Student: "No"

Me: "Well there is your answer.."

Student: "You look like Jeff." (in reference to Rjay)

Jasmine: "He doesn't look like Jeff!! Jeff is white! and Rjay is"

Rjay: "What! What am I!?"

Jasmine: * hesitates and says with a smile "TALL"

Jasmine: "I'm going to get water cause technically, I'm a student"

Rjay: "I'm going to get water too."

Jasmine: "No Rjay! You aren't a student, you're a teacher! This is student water!"

Me: "Now listen to me closely, cause I'm only going to say this once!! Tomorrow! I want colorful tops! Think tropical-oranges, reds, yellows, greens, BRIGHT!! I don't care what you wear for the bottoms as long as it is BLACK!! Black shorts, black capris, black pants. I don't care! As long as it is black! Got it!"

Student: 10 mins later "Can I wear the shorts that I have on?" *She's wearing white shorts with blue lines on them.

Me: "Are they black?...

*Girls do the dance and I stop to clean.

Jasmine: *Angry voice* "Can you guys hurry up and get it right! I have to go down and I'm hurting my knee! If you aren't going to get it right I'm not going to do this anymore!"

Linz: *Walks up to Rjay "What's the order of...*Destiny's Child comes on "Say my name, say my name" Linz starts to body roll and sings the song.

Rjay: *In shock and turns around quickly.

Denise: "Hey! What do we tell you everyday!? Can you run? No! Could you run yesterday? Could you run last week? Can you run today? No!"

Orange Team takes 2nd place for the first ever color war =) Love my oranges!

"Rjay you should be on our team!!"

"Okay!"
Sharday: "Rjay! Pick a color."
Rjay: "GREEN!"
Orange team in the back of the line.. "wth? lol ORANGE you were supposed to pick ORANGE!! Stupid boy!"

Talking Smack, ya know...

Orange Team Leaders with captain's Albert Duran and I

I was the leader of the Quiz bowl. We won!

"Cass I want you to eat this cookie!"-Dre
"She wouldn't eat it! She wouldn't be a cool kid!"-Dre

The staff <3>

Distinguished Young Women & Don't fill up your head, he said, she said..nobody has it easy. Spring Recap

2010-09-22T15:40:00.000-07:00

I've been home for forever!!! I came home early because I knew that I was going to serve a mission. Me being mommas little girl! Wanted to spend as much time with my mom and the rest of my family as long possible. Although I was anticipating that I would leave sometime in September and not in NOVEMBER!! So lets break this down!

Spring

It's always great being home!! Especially in the first week! Everyone is so excited to see you again and to buy you lunch and have new adventures and new missions.

JM C/O 2011: What an interesting year... seems like year after year we have had just ridiculous stand out people that you knew right off the bat would just do well. This year couldn't be anymore different. There were no real big stand outs this

year and the talent was pretty evenly matched. It even took the judges a long time to decide who would be our representative.

<3 Mariah

I learned something from watching the show that I never would have understood had I not spent time with a lot of the girls and learned more about them. We are so obsessed with winning and competition aspect. Junior Miss or Distinguished Young Women teaches young women to "Be Your Best Self." To go out there and show people the best of you not only on stage but also off the stage. To carry the things you learn with you for the rest of your life. I know personally that Junior Miss had helped me learn a lot of things about myself, personally that I have carried with me where ever I have gone. I've also had the opportunity to meet other "Distinguished Young Women" who are just incredible people!

It takes courage to get up there on stage in front of a packed house. It takes courage to get up there and talk on the spot. Especially if you are someone who isn't used to being on stage, who isn't used to doing fitness routines etc etc. Those girls came out there that night and were ready! There was such a huge change from the start of the week to show time. It was the progression, the struggles they had endured that week leading to the big show. Then when the clock hit 7 all of them came on stage and truly were their best selves. I have to admit my eyes were opened and I was truly inspired.

Thank you girls from opening my eyes to better understanding that life isn't always competition driven. Life is a learning process in which we take steps to move forward and better ourselves. We take ourselves out of familiar situations and learn new things. In that process we get to know and learn more about other amazing people who we never would have met otherwise.

Has beens Class of 2010 you guys still rock my socks! So weird... you are all in college now!

(Aw my little sister Espi all grown up! Going to Davis! I'm so proud!)

DRAMA! : The Second week I was home there was already drama! The disadvantage of being from a small town and where people don't know how to mind their own business! YEAH THAT'S RIGHT! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! I was tied up in random studio dance drama and I hadn't even gone out! Only for dance practice. That was the crazy thing! There are a lot of things that I wish I could say but I won't cause it's the classy thing to do.

FACT: If you ever steal someone's choreography, you need to ask the person if you can use it. So... lets see $250 and charging for choreography that isn't even yours! Way to be... you are ridiculous... then telling the girls not to tell. That's the best part because of coarse they are going to say something.

IF THERE IS ANY DOUBT : Call and ask and I'll tell you if I said it or not!

Precision Dance Center: Went to recital this year, haven't been to one of those in a while. Darlene always does such a great job of cleaning dances and making sure that they are stage ready. Which is a quality and skill that not all dance studios have. From the older comp groups to the young kids. They all look clean! My only dislike was that a lot of dances looked the same!! You could really tell who choreographed what and it wasn't always a complement. The stand out pieces were choreographed by Mark and Richard! Amazing! All of their dances had done amazing at competition too! Check Them Out http://www.moveproductionsonline.com/videos.aspx

(It was also my nieces first ever dance recital =) She had fun watching the lights and the loud music.)

CCHS DANCE TEAM: Can we say wow!! They are such a great team!! Seriously gotta check out their set for the dance rock and soul show! Paper Dolls- Choreographed by Espi <3

The routine they won with at Sharps.

Last one

Great job guys!

Graduation: I got to see some of my absolute favorites graduate! What a moment! There are way to many of you to name one by one. You know who you are and you know that I love you!

I'm terrible at blogging!

2010-09-07T23:17:00.000-07:00

Wow! I haven't gotten on this thing in quite literally a whole year! Yes I am a terrible blogger. Believe it or not I would much prefer to write in my journal. I guess I'm really just getting on this to show my mother an easy way to check up on me for future reference etc etc.

I've kind of sworn off blogger and other things for school sake. I will admit it paid off royally when my grades came in at the end of the year. It just comes to

show what wonderful things happen when you bring back simplicity. I also shu

t my phone off for prolonged periods of time. In the end seeing

those A's on my report was priceless! Another great semester at BYU with lots of great people.

What can I say. I guess the third time is the charm.

At school I had the opportunity for a lot of firsts.

I helped choreograph my friend Maddie's gymnastics routine.

(holding the leader stick called "stick stick". Whoever the leader is of the group people have to recognize their teammate as the leader. I call it the spirit stick!) Oh how I miss those fun bouncy spring floors!

(A random shot from the 5th floor of the library on a beautiful day!)

Watched my first ever World of Dance with Beth and Stacy. It had a absolutely wonderful tap number choreographed by the wonderful Colleen West! Seriously that tap number is one of my favorites ever. It made me sad that I didn't audition. Rustin looked like he was dancing on air. he had this wonderful Fred Astaire quality. Then Ev has been one of my favorite boys at BYU since I met him =)

I was Alma's makeup artist for a show. Look at those eyes! Smokin hott!

Had a freshmen reunion with Shannon, Elza, Erica, Diana etc. We went to our first ever Speakeasy Tiger Concert to see our friend rock his tail off on guitar! Goo Tavis Alley! If you ever have an opportunity to check them out in concert please do! They are really great stage performers. Check out the band website here. http://warped.speakeasytiger.com/

With Emily and one of my heros Cosmo the cougar! After one of the rehearsals for the Choose to Give flash mob dance. Choreographed by John and I. =) Also big shout out to John because without him and his creative ideas, none of that could have ever taken place. It was such a large scale project and he went over and above obsessing and working on this day and night. Great job! Great job to all the other leaders who were also involved you guys do great things for the school. Keep up the great work. Thank you dancers for being wonderful and patient. You guys rocked it!

Then there are the wonderful moments that we didn't get on camera. Lots of laughs, lots of dances ;) lots of good times, some bad, some tears... but I wouldn't change it for anything. One of the best experiences and years of my life. Hung out with loads of old friends but also had the opportunity to bring so many great new and interesting people in my life. Thank you everyone! For a wonderful fun packed school year!

One of the Best Summers Ever

2009-11-07T21:30:00.000-08:00

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!