Roommate Photoshoot

This photoshoot was our one last hoorah before we all depart for the next year and a half. If you didn't know, Suzanne is leaving on a mission to Rome, Italy May 26th and Lanae is leaving for a performing mission in Nauvoo at the beginning of May and will be gone for 4 months so it's going to be a while before we are together again. This year has seriously been one of my favorite years here at school. Us 4 girls got so close, even closer than we had already been before, since we had lived with each other for 2 years previous to this school year. I love these girls so much and I'm going to miss being all together. We created a sisterhood that will never be broken. These pictures were taken in front of our dear house. We love the house and the ward we're in and we developed some good times here. It only makes sense that we would take the pictures in front of "da howse" as we like to call it.

Clogging Final

So this is finals week. Suzanne and I took a clogging class together this semester and for our clogging final we had to choreograph and perform a one and a half minute clogging dance. This is our final! It was so fun to choreograph together. Suz and I work well together. The story of our dance is that we are two love struck little girls who love all boys basically. It was really fun to perform. I'm going to write what we say b/c it's kind of hard to hear.

Here goes...
Suzanne: Maryyyyyyy
Mary: Whaaaat!!
Suzanne: Look what Bobby gave me today! (a note that says "Do you like me? Check yes or no")
Mary: Oh my gosh!!! He totally loves you!!!!
Suzanne: Yes, he totally totally loves me!
Suzanne: I love boys! I love boys!
Mary: No I love them more!
Suzanne: I love boys! I love boys!
Mary: I love them more!
Suzanne: I love boys!
Mary: I LOVE THEM MORE! (points at Suzanne with a stern look)
Suzanne: I think I'm going to marry him
Mary: You know your hair would look so pretty in a veil
Suzanne: It really would?
Mary: Ya, it really would, it really would! Ya! ya!
Mary: haha your hair would look really pretty in a veeiiiiill!

LET THE DANCE BEGIN!!!!

Hare Krishna COLOR FEST

This weekend we went to the Indian temple in Spanish Fork for the festival of colors...this event is HUGE!! There was more than 20,000 people that attended. People came from all over!! It was crazy! Basically what happens is everyone gets a bunch of colored chalk and throws it at each other. Yup, that's it...that's what everyone comes for! But it's amazing!!! Here's the pics!

On our way to the festival...we had to park far away and walk a great distance to get there because there was so many cars...traffic was crazy!

I found some play-do on the side of the road...it was still in it's case...so I picked it up and played with it on the walk over. Everyone made fun of me for it!

This is Andy...Andy is our friend...he comes over all the time...basically Andy is one of the girls...he grew up with 8 sisters...now he has 6 girlfriends...He comes with us every where...he's even coming with us on our girl's camp out trip (I told him the only way he could go with us is if he brought his own tent)...yup, this is Andy













Ok let me just say that at one point on this little adventure I thought I was going to die...literally my life flashed before my eyes. It was crazy! So let me just preface this. There's one point where everyone crowded together and threw their chalk up in the air at the same time. With more than a 1,000 people pressed together in a crowd and us being in the dead center...I couldn't breath guys!!!! It was scary! And it went pitch black when everyone threw their chalk up. It was a rather frightening experience. But it all turned out ok. I'm still alive and breathing.

This Is Definitely a Good News Minute Moment...

You guys!!! I have great news! I made SPAC!! Yay! For those of you who don't know what SPAC is, which I assume is everyone, it is the back up folk dance team! This was a big deal to me! I've been auditioning for things like this for the past year and a half, and I'm finally making my way up in the world. Next I'm going to make the touring team! That's the next item on my list! I'm so happy I made it guys! I was beaming all day yesterday when I found out. I found out at our huge folk dance rehearsal where like all 200 members of the folk dance club members were. People kept coming up and congratulating me at the practice and I was like what are they congratulating me for? And then I found out! It was great! So this Winter semester we will start rehearsing and then the first 3 weeks of spring term, we'll go out and tour all over Utah and perform at different elementary schools. I'm very excited to perform for these little kids! Kids are so fabulous! In honor of this moment, I am going to post a very revealing and applicable photo that shows my dedication and diligence to dance. This photo was donated to me by my loving sister Liza! Thanks Liza...your the bomb.com!

I MADE IT!!!

I MADE IT!! I MADE IT!! I MADE IT!!!

Choreography

I auditioned for the dance major just this past Friday. This is a huge deal if you didn't know! It's something I've been waiting for for 2 years now. So it was a bit of a nerve racking experience. For the audition they took us into a room where there was a long panel of "judges". Actually they were just the full time faculty members at BYU so I knew almost all of them (except for the Ballroom and Ballet teachers, but they only made up a small portion of the 15-20 teachers). It was kind of intimidating. We learned a ballet, modern, ballroom, and folk routine for the first part of the audition. We danced all of them for the teachers. From there we waited to hear if we had been given a call back or not. After about an hour I found out I made a call back! I was so happy! For the call backs, we were to perform a one minute solo for the teachers. This was a solo that we were to have had choreographed before the audition. I choreographed my solo. It's actually one that I have been working on for a while...or at least thinking about for a while. I put a lot of thought into it. It all started last year in my creative workshop class. We went to the art museum here on campus and our assignment was to receive inspiration for a dance from one of the paintings. The painting that I chose was one of Christ. I forget the title of the piece, but it's of Christ and he is lifting up a tent door looking inside to the man hiding in there. It's a very touching piece. I thought about it for a while and this is my inspiration. My piece that I choreographed for the major auditions is about the comfortless person in need of healing and then them receiving that healing through Christ. It was a really cool experience to be able to choreograph something like this. Like I said, I've been thinking about this for a long time. I'm glad I finally finished it, but I don't think this is the last of this piece. The piece was only allowed to be a minute long due to the great amount of people that would be auditioning, so it's not that long. I really want to take it to greater heights later and maybe expound on it. We'll see. For right now it's really short, so I hope you enjoy it. Remember to keep in mind what the piece is about as you watch it, and I think it will mean a lot more to you.


P.S. - I don't know if I made it into the major yet. I'm still waiting to find out, but I feel like I did my best. I'll keep you posted about that.