Rain

While I do admit that it is all very pretty (as I have always secretly enjoyed the rain), it has been raining a lot these past few days.  It seems like that too when I check in with my friends from scattered around the northeast, and some a little farther south.  It rained on Monday and Tuesday pretty much all day.  If it wasn't raining, there was still a bit of a mist to keep everything wet.  Wednesday was nice and sunny, but today I wake up on this Thursday morning to see it raining again.  It seems to be a similar case tomorrow as I saw by some weather forecast.  I'm just glad I took the opportunity when I was given it and went out for some food shopping yesterday. :P

Anyway, Tuesday was pretty intense.  I had to take another Wednesday because my body just felt so beat.  We continued with the same style of rotations, but they changed up the groups and the stations.  For some people (like me) the group remained mostly the same, but for others, they changed completely.  On Tuesday we did an hour of Spanish web, followed by an hour of duo trapeze.  Two hours of aerials really takes its toll on your hands.  I got a wonderful rip right at the end of duo trapeze on the outside bottom of my right ring finger, just above the tip of my little finger.  It's still right now not feeling so good, but at least the two rotations we have today are only pole and wire.  Wire doesn't really involve your hands at all (thank god), but I think I can work my way around pole without hurting my finger too much.  Web gave me a few slight abrasions in places I thought I wouldn't still be getting, such as the spiral around the leg and to the foot, from sliding down.  It wasn't a bad burn or anything, as just a day later it was like nothing had happened, but I found showering not to be the most comfortable of things that day.  We mostly sticked to the basics in both classes.  In web (with Serenity), we worked on opposite side hip-key climbs (if you don't know what those are, don't worry about it... they're basically just a great ab workout) and practiced spinning and being spun on a rope with a handloop.  In duo trapeze we worked on individual tricks, which ended up being difficult, but at the same time rewarding since we had to learn to work together with others on what becomes a very shaky apparatus.

One thing I remembered I forgot to mention about last week was that we started our dance classes!  Last Thursday (and every subsequent Thursday, meaning today too), we have ballet with Deena.  Now I'm just going to admit two things off of the bat: 1. I'm no Billy Elliot 2. while I do understand the intentions and benefits of this sort of dance for these sorts of disciplines, I don't really feel like this is a style of dance I would pursue on my own.  It's so incredibly structured, and as one person in the class mentioned, it seems like almost as if it only becomes real dance only when you're really good at it.  It's a bit like a language in a way, in that you need to learn the grammar, semantics, and vocabulary of the language before you can start expressing yourself with it, but I never really thought dance should be like that.  If it's such a universal language, why provide it with such structure?  Anyway, speaking of language, I enjoyed getting a glossary of French ballet terms, and also learned that "port de bras" is actually three words instead of one (LOL).

Anyway, I know this is a somewhat short post for now, and I do want to say more, but I do have to go to class now.  I will keep you guys updated on how Chinese pole, wire, and dance go today, as well as other fun stuff that are to happen on Friday.  We also got another homework due the Tuesday of next week (October 5, I think), so I will be posting my response to that in the homework tab later as well.

Trevor