you are being public blog emailed! boo yeah! (read here for a description of what that is.) everyone will be able to read this email on my blog so i can share information with everyone whilst specifically addressing people. little brother Danny said that he thinks that "this will be a really neat way for you to kind of catalog your experience, conversationally."
Alllison, I'm emailing you specifically because i just took a dance class today and i feel awesome. tired? yes. light-headed and sore? more and more every second. but i feel inspired. i have forgotten what it's like to have a really good dance class, and i really do want to get better. trying as hard as i was and being amongst people who are so much better than me really opened my eyes to how much i've stopped trying at school.
okay, so this dance class is run totally in korean and it's basically a jazz class. alllison, i took THE BEGINNER LEVEL - the lowest possible level i could take and it almost killed me. okay, so i've never taken a dance class outside of school, but is this what i'm to expect? the little korean woman running the class may have been close to 50, but she was FIT - kind of like Robin if she was korean, and she was tough. maybe koreans work harder than the classes i'm used to, because after this class, no one left! everyone just stayed from 8:30 to 9:00 working on the combo (which, by the way, was long and really fast). alllison, i'm pretty sure if i keep on taking this class, i will be a better dancer come september. please, encourage me. now, i could sign up for a month of classes at 110,000 won for a month (~$110), or just a coupon of 10 classes for 130,o00 won, which i think is more practical because it requires less commitment, which could turn out being Bad News Bears, because i'll do a total of 10 classes for the entire summer.
good news #2! i went to this church called Jubilee (and it's awesome but that's for another email) and asked some lady about singing lessons, and she was all like, "oh yeah! totally! ...but, hold on, are you looking for opera singing, because the guy i'm thinking of is more musical theatre..." I KNOW! isn't that totally wack how i seem to be taken care of out here?
one last thing: you know how sometimes we like to talk about racism? do you think this applies?
maybe you can't tell what i'm referring to. i'll blow it up.
now, to me, it seems like they took a brown happy face and gave it a fro and called it a Black girl and a Black boy, but my friends here seem to think they're just sheep. I don't know. i suppose it's not very important.
okay, friend, i'm tired, and i'm going to bed.
good night/morning!
-esther
1 comment:
haha, after 9 months in holland, I vote "it's unintentional racism" on all those things. You should see the horrible "chinamen" decorations that the travel agency on my street put up in celebration of their sale on trips to Asia.
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