As of Thursday January 30th, 2014 my time here in Spain has been half lived. Now I have been thinking a lot about what this means to me personally and I am full of SOOOO many emotions that its impossible to sum it up in just one word. However if my life depended on choosing just one, it would have to be 'unforgettable'!
This past week was a bit busy and flew by so so fast. School was a blur of coming and going in and out of class. I passed another test (barely, but hey here a pass is a pass!)! And got a new seating chart, which sounds kind of lame, but its kind of the perfect way to meet new people within your own class that you may never have talked to otherwise so I am actually pretty excited about it.
Another reason this week has gone by so quickly was because my dance class was chosen to prepare a few numbers for an awards event in town which was super cool. We had all of one month to prepare five full numbers. OK well technically for me only four because one was a ballet solo for another girl in my class, BUT during that solo I had the responsibility of lifting and waving around a banner like water and stuff and getting the timing and such down for that to a song with no words is harder than you may think. Plus that thing was like forty feet long and heavy, so I am counting it as another number I was in anyway. ONE month, FIVE dances.
These rehearsals felt just like play practice at home, which I have been missing a lot, so it was really nice to have something so similar to do that filled the gap of home! The other four numbers were quite insane if I do say so myself. We opened the whole ceremony with a routine to "Give Me All Your Love" by Madonna (feat. Nicki Minaj) and based it off the Superbowl routine from two years ago... I think it was two years ago, well you all remember that halftime show! Not only did we dress up as cheerleaders (more like the baton twirlers in our schools marching band with the little skirts and everything) but in the background we had a acrobat duet act. It was crazy. Like I am literally talking about those people, one guy one girl, and the girl is seemingly weightless and thrown in the air with all kinds of twirls, flips, and cool stuff that. It was one of those acts that would have made my mom grab my arm and say "I can't watch this, I can't watch," and freak out like a little kid. (Love you mommy!) And as if that wasn't enough there was even a break dancer thrown into the mix!
Next we danced to "Space Jam" which was probably my favorite. We got to dress like people from a work out video from the 80's (I rocked the leotard over leggings with leg warms) and we danced it as a battle and our dance teacher was a referee! It was really exciting and hard not to laugh while staring at each other with our "game faces" on. Another break dancer came in for that dance and did all sorts of cool flips and stuff that break dancers do!
Following that we danced to a remix of "Rocky", "Eye of the Tiger"and "Survivor" which was incredible. Since it was a sports ceremony the town of Castelldefels lent us a bunch of sports uniforms of literally every sport imaginable. I was given a figure skating leotard dress thing which was really pretty and surprisingly comfortable. A little bummed we had to give them back. Anyway, the routine had many elements to it which caused a lot of nerves before hand. It started out with a boxing rink and two of our dancers acting out a boxing scene with above lighting which made it literally seem like you were in a stadium, however this damn rink was nearly impossible to keep from tangling and we probably spent more time practicing setting up the rink than the dance itself. Thank god all of that work paid off and it ended up going very smoothly. However the rink was only the first 30 seconds of the song. Next came the dancing..... with jump ropes. I had never danced with a jump rope before and it was actually a real challenge to get everything right on cue when its not just your body you have to control. In the end it was nothing short of awesome!
After "Rocky" was the banner number with the Olympic song with the torches and stuff. You know "da da da da da daaaaaaaaaaa", well you can't actually here me, but you get my drift! That all went well and the acrobats came back and did some more super impressive stuff and then it was on to the next one.
Here is the final number! (Sorry I don't have footage of them all, but I happened to be a little preoccupied at the time)
I Gotta Feeling
After the show was over the whole dance crew and I went out to eat, and celebrate our dance teachers birthday. Afterwards she drove me and a few girls home and I was actually able to give instructions to my house! Now you are probably thinking... 'really that's an accomplishment to you?' YES IT IS, because every freaking road here is a one way street and for living somewhere that you walk every place, yes, giving accurate directions is a huge accomplishment.
So now I go back to my normal school weeks with dance only on Thursdays. Well, who knows! I may show up this Thursday and have a whole new list of plans laid out for me there! I can only hope!
Hope you had a great weekend. Enjoy the Superbowl tonight and see you in a shorter amount of time than I saw you last... if that even makes sense. Can't wait to see what the future here holds for me, and then I can't wait to tell you all about it!
LOTS OF LOVE!
~ Emily
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