Your probably wondering…”what does she mean by happy star wars day?” . Well if you must know today is star wars day. May the 4th be with you. You may not find that funny but it is to my class.
HAPPY STAR WARS DAY TO ALL!!!!
Archive for May 4th, 2009
04
May
Happy Star Wars Day!
04
May
MISSION!!!
Mission BC. That’s where I have spent one weekend a year for the last 3 years dancing. As you probably already know form some of my other posts I am Ukrainian and I also am a Ukrainian Dancer. This weekend was the Mission Ukrainian Dance Festival. My dance group goes there for the one day of dancing and we always have so much fun. I’m going to tell you all about it.
Mission is a fairly small town near surrey BC. It’s pretty old too but there are some really new things like the school we preform at. There are a whole bunch of different groups. I think there were about 10 this year and each group has more then 20 dancers. One group has ten girls and ten guys in the age range of 15 to 18 and most of them have just arrived from the Ukraine this year. They were speaking Ukrainian the whole time.
The Senior girls from my team (that’s the group I’m in) Got a bronze, a silver and a gold for the three dances we did. The gold was for our shawl dance. The adjudicator (the judge) said that the shawl’s are hard props to use and we used them very effectivly. We were called elegant. With our Privit (welcome dance) The younger kids missed there que so we lost points for it. We got a bronze for that dance. The third dance we did was a plotava dance ( a region in ukraine). We got a silver for it because we have only been practicing the full dance for a a coulpe weeks. We mixed up some of our timings on something and had our ribbons in the wrong hands at some points. But int he end we were only 2 points less then getting a gold so all in all we did pretty good this weekend considering the mistakes.
The best part about mission is the after party. We all get together in someone’s room and have a party. this year Austin Power: Gold Member was on TV so we were watching that and laughing really hard. There is also a pool in hotel we stay at and we spend most of our time (when were not dancing) in the pool. My friends at dance are like my family because This was my 8th year dancing with these kids. We are one large disfunctional family. We are best friends.
04
May
Heros
I have more than one hero in my life. Some I know personally some I have never met. Some are dead. But all the same they are hero’s to me. Here are my top 5 hero’s.
At number 5:
Oprah. She is a truly amazing woman who has ever thing she could want or need and with all of that she is still a real person and helps with poverty through out the world. She has gone through struggles in her life such as here childhood. She had lived with her mother from when she was 6 to when she was 13. After suffering abuse and molestation, she ran away and was sent to a juvenile detention home at the age of 13, only to be denied admission because all the beds were filled. She was finally sent to live with her father. It must of been hard for her and now she is a successful talk show host and business woman. She once said “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always”. That line really makes you think. She is one of my hero’s.
At number 4:
Ghandi. He fought for what he believed and didn’t stop. He was against any violence, ate vegetarian, and also undertook long fasts for means of self purification and social protest. He never stopped fighting and ended up dieing for his beliefs. He was amazing. He was even thrown off a train in south Africa for his race but even then he never gave up.
At number 3:
Susie Mcgregor. Susie is my local teacher. Singing is her career and she is just amazing. When I go into the music studio the first thing I see is all her albums and posters. There are guitars on the wall and a piano. Susie is really nice and awesome to be around. She is a truly amazing musician and her voice is so beautiful. I really respect her and what she does. I hope to be as sucessful as her one day.
At number 2:
Donna Baydock. She was an olympic volleyball player. She is also my mom. My mom was on the jr national team and the national team for Canada. She was on both teams for a total of about 6 or 7 years. She has got me into volleyball and I love the sport. She was supposed to be in the 1980 summer olympics but they got canceled for Canada and 62 other contries. Maybe I will be able to live her dream.
At number 1:
David Regehr. My daddy. I am the biggest daddys girl but not because he gives me lots of stuff. Its the exact opposite. My dad doesn’t spoil me and doesn’t inrole me in everything I want to do. He keeps me grounded and if my mom wants me to do something that I don’t want to do he always does whats best for the family and for me. Every night he makes a family dinner before our activeities. He is also a drag racer. He takes our family to go see him race at one of the biggest tracks and he has got a licence to drive under 8 seconds. He introduced me to cars and I am really starting to like them. I love my dad and he is my biggest hero.
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