Spring

So summer is quickly approaching and for some reason I continue to have this pattern of being super busy one or two weeks, and then having some down time. I'm currently in the middle of two busy weeks. Last week was busy, and this coming week will be even busier. I have 3 big performances coming up (Wed and Thurs), but if you count how many actual performances I have on Thursday, then altogether I have 5 (4 being on Thursday alone). SO these next couple of days I will be back to sessioning like a maniac.

In other news, I absolutely hate my Korean class. First time in my life I don't like a language class. It's the format of it though that's the source of my woes. Especially my reading and writing class. There's no point in going to it. All you do is show up and listen to the teacher read from the book. Waste of time. The speaking and listening class isn't as bad, but I still want to pull my hair out.

My other classes are going well though. I destroyed a presentation in my premodern korean history class. And although my Culture and Religion in Modern Korea class is slightly redundant and boring sometimes, these two classes compliment one another fairly well. But the teacher for the religion class is just talking out of his ass like 70% of the time. It's still entertaining however.

I haven't gone to the gymnastics class in quite some time. Not just because I got busy, but also because there were times when the class didn't even meet. So I guess I used those holidays and canceled classes as my opportunity to simply stop going. I wasn't really in need of learning how to twirl a ribbon anyways.

I went "camping" a couple weeks ago on the holiday called "Children's Day." I say camping because it was a very camping like environment. However, it was also a picnic in a sense because we didn't stay overnight. It was an early morning to early evening expedition. A lot of fun though. It's also the first time I ever started drinking alcohol so early. It was nice to go out to a river in the mountains and just relax. I got to climb and play around, thus earning the title of "wild man" but I suppose this isn't much of a surprise to my friends that have hung out with me in the wilderness before. I attribute my nature skills to the native american blood running through my veins. But thanks to the fact I look nothing like a native, I got pretty sunburned hahaha. Sall good though. I need a good sunburn in spring if I am to survive summer.

My ballerina friend had her big spring performance this past week. She did an amazing job and it was interesting to watch. This time around, my ex professor (the choreographer) utilized a different western guy (also american though) in her dance. Unlike me, however, he has a masters in Ballet. It was somewhat interesting to see a male ballerina. But at the same time, it made me glad that I wasn't taking part this time around. The outfit that guy wore...good God. I can't see myself wearing anything like that. It was interesting to compare the two dynamics as well. Bboying is pretty much the complete opposite of ballet. And in ballet, the guy has more of an assist role (the girls do all the work). I met him at the after party and he seemed like a pretty cool guy too. And he definitely didn't fill any stereotype at all (not just dance, but white guy in korea too).

The after after party was at this mansion of a karaoke room. It was fun, minus the fact that I knew like zero songs, the odds of them knowing the English songs I liked were slim, and that I can't sing. I did, however, end up singing 3 songs in total. The first two I did a fairly miserable job of, but my finale was pretty good. I had to go to my failsafe song: Elvis Presley, Can't Help Falling in Love. Had to pull that one out of retirement. Pretty sure I killed it though. So I felt a little bit better by the end of the night.

On my way back home, I randomly ran into a professional bboy crew and found out about a competition that was yesterday. Got invited to come out and I made a pretty good impression on them (even though it was like 5am). I'll see if I have the time to follow up with them. I did go to the competition, and the crew that I am already friends with ended up winning. So that was cool all around.

The semester is drawing to a close and I'm not really sure how I feel about things. I think the main thing on my mind right now is "am I doing all that I could be doing?" Some things have popped up to annoy me recently (especially dealing with certain types of people), but on the flip side, some really dope and amazing things have popped up as well. So currently I'm focusing on those and trying to regain a solid footing in order to launch my attack on the remaining time I have left. I'm not at the final stretch yet, but I don't see it hurting me to get ahead of the race while I still can.