Future

School is wrapping up, and the feelings are bittersweet. One one hand, I am so sad to be leaving the high school where so many great memories were made. I am so sorry to be leaving the Music Department, where the best times were had at concerts, trips, rehearsals or just hanging out. But I'm glad that I'm sad, if that makes any sense at all. If I wasn't sad, it would mean that my time here meant nothing to me.

On the other hand, I am quite tired of class, summatives and studying for exams. So for that reason I can't wait to get out of here. and I'm so excited for University.

I will be going to York University for dance this September and I can't wait! I have a roomate, a room in residence, and so many dance classes that I'm not going to be able to walk after the first week. It's going to be awesome.

But first I have to get through a summer job. I will be working as a secretary at a company in Waterloo. My main job will be doing data entry which will probably be the most boring thing I will ever have to sit through. It is a good thing that I have something to look forward to. And this job will let me go to university so it will all be worth it!

Love or Money?

Age old question. To have extreme wealth, or to be guaranteed to fall in love.

Not to be the predictable female, but I would in all honesty choose love. Money does not guarantee happiness. In my life, I value the people around me much more than I value material objects. Not that material objects aren't important, but having someone to spend your life with seems like a better trade off.

Besides, if Will and Kate can be in love and have a royal wedding, I'm going to say it is possible ;)

The War on Terror

I found out about Osama Bin Laden's death in a way that only a teenager would be able to; Twitter. (See, social media does have a purpose). So during Sunday night I stayed up and watched the news pretty much moments after Obama's announcement.

I saw U.S. citizens celebrating on the news. I felt the sense of relief people were expressing on twitter. I understand their joy at this news. So many people were killed when the Twin Towers were hit, and to have the mastermind behind these attacks finally killed, after years of searching is a comfort.

The fact that none of the Navy Seals who were involved in the mission were killed, is amazing. This is a huge victory for the United States. So many see this as a huge step towards beating out terrorism.

However I think that celebrating a human's death is taking it a bit too far. These public displays of joy that are occuring across the U.S.A. are probably very insulting and perhaps provoking to people in other countries.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

-Malcom X

Welcome to the world! A newborn girl, Facebook...?

Egyptian man named daughter 'Facebook'

Thursday, 03 March 2011

An Egyptian man in his early twenties has named his newborn daughter 'Facebook' following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution which was almost solely organized on the social-networking site Facebook. The father, Gamal Ibrahim, told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram that he gave his child the name to "express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth." The protests, which were largely organized on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, began on January 25 and led to the end of Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign as president of Egypt. The Al-Ahram report stated that, "The girl’s family, friends, and neighbors in the Ibrahimya region gathered around the new born to express their continuing support for the revolution that started on Facebook. 'Facebook' received many gifts from the youth who were overjoyed by her arrival and the new name. A name that shocked the entire world." The Egyptian spelling of 'Facebook' is فيس بوك. Information from: Wikinews, http://www.wikinews.org/ http://www.bizarrenews.org/content/view/152/1/ So basically, a man named his daughter Facebook in honour of the fact that protests for the Egyptian Revolution were almost all organized on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter! Obviously most people find this to be an odd choice for a name, but after reading the article, I can understand a little bit better the reasons behind it. Obviously the name has sentimental value for the family and many of the Egyptian citizens.

Dancers

"You are dancers, all of you. Life moves you; life dances you. To dance is to investigate and celebrate the experiance of being alive. Like life, a dance creates and destroys itself in every moment. Like love, it is beyond reason. Ephemeral as breath, concrete as bone, dance i made of you. You sculpt space. You write with your body in a wordless language that is deeply understood. You grace the space within and around you when you dance. Force, trajectory, inertia, and recovery: dancing is a ride, a duet between your instinct and imagination. To dance is to heighten your experience of the present moment. Your body is your location - when you dance, you are profoundly engaged in being there. To dance is to feel the resonance of your life, todelight in your existence. To be human is to be danced by experience, energy and emotion."

-Crystal Pite

This quotation was said by an extremely gifted choreographer to dancers at International Dance Day. It speaks volumes to me, and I'm sure to other dancers around the world. Over the weekend my dance teacher read it to us as inspiration for our show we were about to perform as inspiration. It was also her way of saying goodbye, as this is her last year as Company Director.

This is the first year that dance shows have sadness involved in them. Knowing that it is my last time makes me appreciate them more, but is also really hard to have them end.

SIGNS OF SPRING< REALLY LATE

Well I love spring...but it seems to not want to come. I'm unimpressed (that's a word by the way, WHO KNEW?).

After being in Costa Rica, where it was warm, sunny and beautiful, I was looking forward for the flowers to bloom, grass to grow all of that wonderful stuff. But as we sit here, on the 6th of April it is SNOWING.

I remember being a kid and absolutely loving spring. I could finally wear my spring jacket and not a snowsuit. And the best part was playing and doing stuff that only really happened in the spring. Like skipping and playing with chalk on the driveway. Another great memory is restocking on our yearly supply of maple syrup!

Hurry Up Spring!

JOB HUNTING

I NEED A JOB! ASAP in fact. I'm kinda freaking out to be honest. Due to the price of getting a university education, if I don't get a job, I will be screwed for my future. Which is why I'm freaking out!

The issue is my job experiance is all related to dance. So I'm not sure how hirable I actually am. But before I go to CHICAGO next week, I am handing in my resume at every place I could possibly work, and I'm hoping that one place will give me a job.

Last summer I ran a dance camp in Wellesley, which was so much fun. But I doubt I can make enough money to fund my education. So it is a "normal" job for me. I'm worried that I won't enjoy my (possibly) last summer before university. But I guess those are the sacrifices you gotta make.

The Golden Days Are Over

Oh the future. I've been thinking a lot about it, being that I have to make some pretty big decisions about next year. 

Nothing in my future is decided yet (blessing and a curse) because I haven't even done auditions for Universities yet. So while all my friends are contemplating their early acceptances, I'm waiting and worrying about even getting into any school.

However, if all goes well, I'm hoping to get into York's AND Ryerson's dance programs...that way I can choose which one :)




One of the last dance shows :(



The problem with going forward in the future is saying goodbye to the past.

I have a bunch of really big goodbyes coming up; to W-O and to my dance studio. Both of these places have meant so much to me, and as exciting as going off to university will be it will be really hard to leave them.

And the bandaid solution to saying goodbye is taking a 5th year, but I'm not sure if that is for me. I've heard from so many people that they regret staying for a victory lap, and I can see why. Even this year some classes seem like such a waste of time. And when I already have all of my credits I'm not sure I will have the motivation to go to classes and get good marks. 

So, at this point, I don't know what I'm doing next year. Time will tell! 

Boston Bound!

Imagine this. You are on a coach bus, laughing with your friends. The seats are reasonably comfortable, Friends is playing on the miniscule tv screen, there are some snacks to eat. Life is good.

UNTIL, the room of boys sitting across the isle from you decide it would be fun to make up a "happy birthday" song for the many people who are turning one year older. And of all the songs to base it off of, these boys decide to base it off of Justin Beiber's 'Baby'.

Now although I'm not a huge Justin Beiber fan, I can deal with his music as well as the next person. But they decided they needed to practice every spare moment. We girls, tried hinting at them to stop, "you guys sound awesome, you should rest your voices!", to "alright guys, let's watch a movie now." To "OHMIGOD YOU GUYS ARE SO ANNOYING SHUT UP AND NEVER SING THAT SONG AGAIN!!!!!!"

They didn't get the hint.

I have many wonderful memories of the trip down to Boston, however this particular memory sticks out in my mind. Even though we had a lovely dinner on the way down, with all you can eat dessert, the Happy Birthday remix is still more prominent.

Roadtrip!

Many moons ago, a group of my friends and I decided to stray from the comforting town of Baden and go into the big city of, wait for it, London, Ontario.

You see, our dear friend who we shall call Susanna, goes to the University of Western, and since we missed her very much, we decided to visit her! The plan was to go out for dinner, and then see the movie Country Strong, with lots of time to spare so we could get amazing seats...that did NOT happen.

We picked her up, squeezed into a tiny car and drove near the theatre. We went to three different restaurants and all of them were full! FIRST flaw in the plan.

We finally finished up dinner, and it was cutting close to the start of the movie. We RAN over, bought our tickets and rushed into the theatre. THEN a terrible thing happened. There were only 5 seats left, and none of them were together.

Well, we weren't going to sit with randoms, so we thought it would be a good idea to sit on the stairs at the side of the theatre! Unfortunatly, there was a lovely couple who went and tattle taled on us and some evil security type teenager who worked at the theatre told us off, and we had to sit with random people. The couple beside me were unable to comprehend the un-intellectually challenging film and talked to each other throughout the film to clarify the plot development. Gaao;sidgh!

But classic mixups always make great stories to tell.

80's !!

The 80's were SO SWEET. I want to live in them. Yes I do . I want to write lots so that I can work on teacher thank yous for footloose, which needs to get done ASAP! But the sub won't let me! AAAAAAAAH!

When I build a time machine, I will go to the 80's and love life. Thanks.

Dear miss Feick, please help me work on teacher thank yous because teachers will cryyyyy if they aren't thanked. I wanna wear 80's clothes every day! and plastic jewellery and stuff because it looks so fine!

Kinnon did NOT dress up. LAME with a capital L! He has weird sunglasses on that are Ash Baers. How interesting

ALenka and I really wanna get this crap done because the show is TONIGHT. who knew? Not me! and probs not you either peop[le are reading this. If I were a bird, that would be legit, because then I could FLY! AH YE.

You know what else sucks? I can't drink my coffee/brewkus because we are in the library! AWESOMENOVA

Dear Miss Feick, this isn't my legit blog, just my excuse one, I promise to fix it later :)

Thanks.

WE DAY!

Yesterday was Kitchener/Waterloo's FIRST WE DAY! My first We Day too actually. And I loved life.

We Day is an event Free the Children puts on. They do it across Canada, in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and now in KW at The Aud! The goal is to inspire kids to help out with charities in their communities, and to help communities around the world. And it is so inspirational.

I was really lucky because I was one of three student volunteers from W-O sent to help out with We Day. We got free tshirts (displayed in the picture), special colour coded wrist bands, and the oppertunity to actually help make this event possible.

I was part of the Youth Registration Team. Our job was basically to welcome the masses of youth entering The Aud, and to make sure they had tickets in hand, wrist bands on and to help collect their canned food. The best part was trying to get them pumped for the day. We decided to lead cheers, cheer them on and talk to them about how excited they are for We Day.



W-O is in the orange!

 That went on from about 8 to 10, a crazy two hours...but we had so much energy! My favourite part of the day was finally entering the stadium and seeing 6000 youth with so much energy, and knowing that I had helped them in a small way to get excited for the day.

We heard Al Gore, the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Craig and Mark Kielburger speak, and they were so inspirational. There were bands like the Bare Naked Ladies, Stereos and Shawn Desman perform which just added to the excitement.

There were crowd pumpers, people who dressed up in crazy outfits and lead the We Day Dance, and pumped up the crowd. They are my idols. All of them had so much energy all day! Next We Day, I want to be one of them :)

What an AMAZING day!

School Politics

Oh voting season at W-O. The campaigns, the flyers, the random people yelling at you to VOTE for their candidate. In my grade 12 year, I've kind of stopped caring.

 Maybe its because I probably won't be coming back. Maybe its because I don't really know any of the candidates. But really, I think its because after the candidates are voted in, I don't really see them leading the school anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I admire the people who run for Co-pres. I think it takes a lot of courage to go up in front of your peers and ask for votes. And I know W-O's student leaders do TONS behind the scenes. But I never really see them making a difference in our school.

I actually brought this up today, and some teachers told me that there have been co-presidents who were very present in the school, and made a huge difference at W-O. So these comments I make do not apply to all co-presidents. Just my experiance.

So do we need co-presidents? Even though my comments have been negative, yes! For one, we need to have two leaders who do all of the jobs that comes with being co-pres. And each time we vote a new leader in, there is always a chance that he or she is the one that comes along once in a while who will make a huge difference at W-O.

Hot Yoga

MY NEW LOVE!

 I NEVER though I would be into yoga. I thought it was for those crazy meditating people who were all spiritual but guess what?! It isn't!

I was introduced to hot yoga by my friend Katie Gingrich at Moksha Yoga Waterloo, located on Erb St in case you are wondering.

As a dancer, yoga is really good for me because instead of forcing flexibility, you relax into it, a technique that has really helped me. Everything that you do in hot yoga, especially at the beginner level is mind over matter. None of the moves are particularely hard, but holding them in the intense heat takes a fair bit of will power.

My favourite kind of classes offered are called Karma Classes. Instead of paying a fee (regularely $15) you make a donation of atleast $7 and the money goes to a charity! I think that is so cool...you get yoga and better the world!

I especially like doing yoga on Sundays, the one day of the week that I reserve for catching up on all of the homework I've neglected during the week. Yoga is such a great break from all of the sitting and studying.

Unlikely Lovers

Bubbles + Bugs Bunny = <3 ?!?

My Dearest Bugs Bunny,

We are destined to be together. For one, our names are an alliteration "Bugs and Bubbles", "Bubbles and Bugs". It has a nice ring, no?

I am cute, blonde and I fight crime. I'm made of sugar, spice and everything nice!..what more could you want?

I can speak Spanish, and Japenese, as well as talk to animals, so communicating won't be a problem between us! I will ALWAYS stand up for animals, so if you ever need help i'm there. Unless there is a cockroach, those are ICKY!

People tell me that I'm innocent, playful, having gentle demeanor, and having a tendency to be naïve, ditsy, submissive, shy, and sensitive! Hopefully you find all of these traits attractice ;) (Wikipedia me for more info!)

My favourite colour is blue, and I'm a virgo!

If you wanted to go on a double, or even triple date, I have two sisters who would be happy to go out with Tweety Bird or Porky.

Call me!

Bubbles

xoxo

Leader or Follower

Because I am a first born child, I am naturally predisposed to be a leader! And generally I would say this is true. But I'm the type of person to take control if no one else is. If somebody else is taking charge, I'm pretty happy to let them go at it...as long as they are doing a good job ;)

For example, I'm one of the Co-Chairpersons of Music Council this year, but only because there was lots of encouraging from the music teachers. If there had been somebody else who was dying to do the job, and I had thought they would have done a good job, I probably wouldn't have even applied.

And in group projects, I often feel like I am taking the leadership role to make sure everything gets done. After all, someone has got to do it!

And when I was a kid, I was definitely the leader out of the neighborhood kids. I was the oldest, so my sister and neighbors listened to me :)

I'm doing a project right now on Birth Order and how it affects a persons character. This information is clarifying why most of the presidents and prime ministers are first borns!
First Borns are - Conscientious, well organized, serious, goal oriented, achieving, people pleasers and believers in authority.
All of these are assets in leaderships roles!

Footsteps in the Sand

Footsteps In The Sand

One night a man had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the LORD.
Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand:
one belonging to him, and the other to the LORD.

 

When the last scene of his life flashed before him
he looked back, at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along the path of his life
there was only one set of footprints.
He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times of his life.

 

This really bothered him and he questioned the LORD about it:
"LORD, you said that once I decided to follow you,
you'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life
there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me."

 

The LORD replied:
"My son, My precious child, I love you and I would never leave you,
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

 

I have always found this poem to be very striking. Although it doesn't follow a rhyming scheme, I think it is a very moving piece of poetry. I think the reason I like this poem is because it doesn't follow the classic poetry format and is told as more of a story. I'm not the biggest fan of poetry, so something like this appeals to me.  

 

Lolcats

Even though my cats are annoying creatures who scratch my feet if they are out of the covers, wake me up in the morning when they want outside and attack anything I leave on the floor, they make me laugh!

And they give comedic people so much material to work with, (like the picture, and this website, and this one too!).

SO for this appreciation blog post, I chose cats!

Futurama!

Here is the master plan:

1. Perform! - I want to dance professionally!

2. Own a dance studio!

3. Most importantly I want to be happy. :)

Creative Outlets

As a nationality today, we readily accept that the paintings hanging on the wall of museums are "art". The Mona Lisa? Obviously a masterpiece. The Last Supper? Art at its finest.

Even abstract art. We readily accept that anything in a museum is a work of art. I went to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and I saw one painting that was literally a black canvas with a single strip of yellow. Even though I don't understand the statement that is trying to be made, I agreed that it must be art because its in a renowned museum.

Then there is graffiti. Technically illegal. Generally frowned upon. BUT I think some graffiti is "art". When graffiti is making a statement, when it is something that thought was put into, then its art. NOT when somebody spray paints their name on the wall of a building, or when somebody puts swear words all over an alleyway.

This picture on the left is called North America's Footpring. I think the statement of this is pretty clear. Its by a man who goes by the alias Roadsworth because most of his graffiti is done on roads.

This picture on the right is called Life Support System, also by Roadsworth. I think it is so creative how he incorperates the street markings into his art.

If you want to check out more of his art you can visit his website here.

Music Ideas

So...

For an upcoming show, I am choreographing a dance, and the requirements involves using a piece of Classic Rock music. As in, Beatles, Rolling Stones etc.

This may come as a shock BUT other than Beatles Rockband, I am kind of behind the times on this type of music and I need a music idea ASAP or else I will be stuck with the most cliche song of all time.

So for all of those people are listen to a large variety of music and feel like giving some suggestions I would love you for life if you could comment and give me ideas!
-Nothing to hardcore
-Children come to this show/dance in it so no music that is too obscene.

Other than that, go CRAZY!

Thanks :)

Ch'yeah, Writer's Craft!

Yo Feicky
Good News! I love this course!
I have found all of the assignments have been pretty fun. Some harder than others but all interesting.
I had a hard time with the illustrations of the children's story, especially since I am not artistically inclined AT ALL.

I like the blogging, its pretty sweet.

Travel Writing will be really fun, I am thinking.

I don't like the fact that we are sometimes graded on things that are not our writing (ie, illustrations and lack of props for presentations). I understand why you took the marks off, but I still disagree.

I could improve by coming up with better blog post ideas, and putting more into the writing of assignments.