greenridge 2
2008-11-15 10:39 p.m.
yesterday was the last day of the greenridge dance camp.
YEA!!!
once again, im not the teaching/cheering type.
but day 2 could have been worse, i suppose.
i had to lead warm ups because dionne was LATE (a thing that seems to happen a lot lately) and because it was NINE AM and im no morning lark i led the class in a very very foul mood.
which the kids seemed to pick up, because after 5 minutes of my being there 2 of the littlest ones came up and went 'where's the other instructor?'
nothing like being made to feel welcome.
but thankfully dionne soon arrived and could take over the class so i could let my foulness stew only internally.
i must say day 2 was at least not so bad because we didnt teach much, just a little bit of new stuff in reggae. the rest was pretty much just polishing of the hip hop and lyrical, which we didnt even do much of because it was sooo obvious that when the music wasnt on, the students were deadly bored.
once we turned it on though, it was a completely different issue.
the screaming and yelling of day 1 doubled in volume and length.
it actually tripled when we had everyone sit in a circle and take turns freestyling (because we had too much time and nothing to do).
it was rather funny how everyone suddenly became all shifty-eyed and wary of the person sitting next to them. one's best friend could suddenly seem like a potential danger because you could never tell when they would 'convert' (go to the other side and become one of those pulling you out to dance instead of cowering with you) and start dragging you up.
we had best friends pulling best friends, strangers pulling strangers, us pulling strangers, us NEGOTIATING with strangers and a helluva lot of screaming.
in the end we did a super fast freestyle (because we afterall cannot really freestyle) and then a couple of other brave souls did their half-a-second freestyles including one super cool breaker guy who had the whole dance battle thing going on. after his freestyle he actually challenged the other guys (who were unfortunately not as brave) and generally posed and strutted a la someone else we all know and hate.
after that we had the SHOWCASE, which was....hmm, not very good. but who cares?? the organizer said 'the point is not the showcase but whether they learn and have fun'.
which is a goal i would assume we had fulfilled considering the level of screaming and cheering.
after everything ended (meaning after the showcase) we figured we could leave but then realized it hadnt actually ended because we kept getting requests to play the songs again because they still wanted to continue dancing.
and after that was the insane picture taking. we enjoyed temporary rock star status because everyone wanted to take pictures with us and even after that a bunch waved at us from the bus stop (hopefully they were students from the camp, not complete weirdos.)
overall the experience was quite interesting, but not one i would care to repeat.
ever.
well taa for now!
