Mary, the New Folk Dancer

On Wednesday I went to folk dance team try outs and I made it!! I was so excited, I couldn't stop smiling! In the fall, I had tried out for the team but I didn't even make call backs, so this time when they pulled me out and told me I made call backs, I didn't care if I made the team or not. I was just so excited that I made call backs because at least it was one step higher then the last time. Well anyways, I ended up making it and I'm really excited! I finally made something here at BYU! Yay!! I had my first practice on Friday and it was a lot of fun! I can't wait until I get good enough to be on the tour team! That's going to be sweet! The folk dance team here is sooooo good! They are highly ranked throughout the nation! Folk dance is surprisingly really fun! It sounds dumb (trust me that first time I heard about it I was like, "Oh that sounds interesting") but it is really cool!! Haha, I have a funny story about when I tried out. So at try outs I had to bring a boy to dance with, whether they were trying out or not, and I couldn't find one that I thought would really be interested in doing it because like I said, it doesn't sound that appealing especially to a boy. Well I ended up asking this boy in my ward that I thought would do it even though he didn't want to. On the way over I explained to him what was going to go on. I told him that he didn't need to have any experience because they would teach it all to us when we got there, and all he needed to do was dance with me for the first twenty minutes and when they split the boys from the girls, he could leave. Well as we were walking up the stairs we saw a flyer for the tryouts and I was like "See, you don't need to have any experience" (I thought this might help him because he was getting kind of nervous) but then further down of the flyer it said that the girls needed to bring a boy who WAS trying out. This made him even more nervous because he didn't want to try out, he was just there to help me out. I quickly pulled him away from the flyer and reassured him that the flyer was wrong because I had talked to a member of the folk dance team earlier that day and she said that my partner didn't have to be trying out. Well, we got there and we danced and it was fun. He mostly was just laughing the whole time because he was nervous and I think he felt dumb. When the time came for the boys and the girls to be split up he just stayed and went with the other boys because he didn't want to leave me here without a ride. Later, when I found out I made call backs and after he was done learning the dances with the boys, I went over to the boys room to tell him and he goes "Man, that was a lot of fun! I didn't think I would like something like that. I think I'm going to try out for it when I get home from my mission!" So I thought that that was pretty funny. I didn't think that he would like something like that either! I'm glad he did like it though! It made me feel better about inviting him to go with me.