"Where's Your Head At" Video

Choreography: Robbie Anderson

Wrap it up Folks.

So after a full day of rehearsals Sunday, it was finally time for the show Sunday night. My family and girlfriend met me in Chapel Hill for dinner before the show. I was especially excited that they made the drive to come see my show as well as all my friends from UNC who came.  The show was awesome! Memorial Hall was almost completely full, which says a lot, and all of the performances went great. I was a little concerned about my dance looking bad, because everyone just looked tired during rehearsal and were forgetting to perform and smile. Anyways, from what I heard, everything went well. I know I promised to post a video, but the girl that videotaped my dance has not responded to my email yet. If I get a video sometime this week, I will post the video. If not, well most of you are now friends with me on Facebook after last week’s Facebook talk, and I am sure it will be uploaded soon. If you would like to see other dances I was in, checked my tagged videos on Facebook.

So today was very exciting for me. After a third hour-long phone interview, I received a job as a Cabin Counselor at Victory Junction Gang Camp. If you haven’t heard of Victory Junction, you’re missing out. This summer camp is for children with illnesses and medical conditions and is honestly one of the coolest places I have ever visited.  Sorry for the random news, but it has been an exciting day.

As the semester winds down, I got to thinking about my first year at Carolina. I honestly am really sad to leave in two weeks. Carolina is my new home and as much as I love being at home with family, it’s going be hard to leave all my friends I have met this year. I know we will all be back in August, but it’s kind of the same feeling as leaving high school to go college. (Except leaving high school to come to college was the best thing that has happened in my life). I hope next year will be even better than this year. I personally feel like I have grown as a person, student, and a teammate. Through crazy weekends, all nighters in The UL, football and basketball games, and every other aspect of college, Carolina has been amazing. I can’t wait for next year.

Where's Ya Head At

This Sunday is the Blank Canvas Dance Company Spring Showcase. The performance will be in Memorial Hall at 7:00 pm. Tickets are five dollars in advance or seven dollars at the door. You can get your tickets in advance any day this week in the pit. I have been a dancer in Blank Canvas both semesters here my first year at Carolina. The cool thing about Blank Canvas is that there are 300 dancers and 5 different levels for each style of dance. You audition for a level at the beginning of the year and get placed in a level for each style of dance. After being placed into your levels, “The List” is sent out to the listserv and you sign up for the dances you want within your level.  “The List” gives a brief description of the dance and what skills are required of the dancers. Every dance is led by a single student choreographer and meets once a week for forty-five minutes for rehearsal. I only signed up for two dances last semester because I was worried about getting adjusted to college with the heavy workload as well as my long practice schedule for cheerleading. After the amazing show last semester, I realized I wanted to be more involved this semester. I found a song I really wanted to choreograph to and applied to be a student choreographer for the Spring Semester. After being chosen, I was ready to begin rehearsals. This semester has gone by so fast and I can’t believe Sunday is the show. I had my last rehearsal for my dance tonight and was very proud of all the hard work my dancers have put into my dance.  The style of my dance is jazz and the level is five. The song is called “Where’s Ya Head At” and is the Klass Remix version.  You should listen to it.

Here is the YouTube link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDGY6aikr7Q

The goal of my dance is to give the audience a headache. I plan to post a video of my dance hopefully next week on my blog so stay tuned for that. Please come to show! I am also in four other dances this semester. I know the show will be entertaining and will be worth your money and Sunday evening.  If you can’t make it, I will post a video of my dance on here next week hopefully. I hope to see you Sunday!

Contemplation. Decisions. It's LIfe

As the semester starts to wind down, I am getting more and more concerned on what I am going to do with my major.  I am currently a Biology major with the Pre-Med track, but just not one-hundred percent sure if this is what I really want to do. It scares me that I am about to sign up for classes again and I truly don’t even know what I should or want to be taking. It occurred to me last week what I have always really wanted to do. Teaching and helping others has always been a passion of mine. I even told my parents in elementary school that I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. Yes, I know this makes me look like a boring child since it wasn’t anything awesome like an astronaut, but I really just wanted to be a teacher. This dream continued in middle school where I also first became interested in the medical field. As I transitioned through my high school years, I lost my gut feeling about being a teacher and decided to enroll at Carolina as a Biology major hoping to one day advance to medical school. As I was thinking about this the other day, I realized I never really had strong reasons for why I all of a sudden dropped my dream as a future teacher. I thought to myself, is it the money? Is it the lifestyle? Even though I feel being well-off is important in order to support a future family, this shouldn’t affect my career decision. I am currently in contemplation over whether to major in education, or just receive my Master’s after I graduate. Luckily, I am setting up an appointment to talk to my advisor soon. I feel like my life decisions for my future career are over the place, but I hope one day soon I will just be able to decide. I feeling like being a teacher could open a lot of doors for further occupations. Even though I would be more well-off as a doctor, my gut feeling of being a teacher and making an impact on a child’s life is more important to me right now.

Also, is anyone going to the Spring Football Game Saturday afternoon? I am cheering at it and am already excited for the fall season. I hope everyone had a good weekend!