pictures!!

oh and soon i'll put pictures up of my campus, the inner harbour, the step performance and the ride along. and maybe pictures of my dancers in rehearsal (i had to take pictures for the website)

cruising through the ghetto and funk party!!

hey so on thursday night we went on the ride along with 2 drug detectives. one who's known as 'big head' on the streets because when we was just a patrol officer he was good at his job and arrested a lot of bad people etc and is like a street legend apparently so that was pretty cool! they picked us up from college at 7pm then took us to the station to sign forms and gave us bullet proof vests just for safety etc! they were actually pretty comfy! Oh and they showed us some drugs and it's mad how cheap heroine is in little capsules (so it looks like paracetamol) it's $10 on the streets but then apparently up in towson where i'm studying it's loads because people don't want to go to the dodgey streets.
but yeah they we just drove round the streets of baltimore with them. We saw some hand to hand drug deals and they stopped and searched some guys who'd just bought drugs it was really interesting. It's like a whole other world just half an hour away from college. The poverty and the drugs and we saw a lot of people who were definately really drugged up. They took us to a place where some scenes in the wire was filmed which was wicked because i loved the wire and it was cool to see! and then we all went and got food and came home. but it was sooo fun and my friend amirah (who's studying photography) got some really good pictures for her final project. Were going to go on a day one at some point too which should be cool..and i'm guessing they'll be more peole out on corners dealing then too (it was freezing thursday night and the wind was mad. all night i was kept awake by it!) I've been pretty brief in describing it but it really was so interesting to see everything that's going on. It was kinda like stuff that happens in music that normal you're comletely disconnected from but to see it all in real life and the boarded up houses it was quite surreal but not! not too sure how to explain but hopefully you get the jist!

Last night was the funk house party which was soo cool. It was at a friend's house just off campus and there was a funk band and dj set up in the basement which was really nice and carpetted. So there were loads of people down there dancing etc, the band were really good and had a kinda rage against the machine sound but they were funk which was really cool. SO yeah goood times were had! also my friend steph and i played people at beer pong and kicked butt! we were undefeated! so that was fun!
tonight it's my friends 21st party on campus so yay for more partying! i am dancing and going to the gym and doing my work too not just going on ride alongs and partying hehehe!!

hope all's good back home =)happy saturday guys

dancing like a dancey thing!!!

so as well as that contemporary class i'm now taking an extra ballet class twice a week. i did it today and it was soooooo fun! and i actually got to dance it. the teahcer is soo funny and an ex bboyer which is hillarious so lets us be all dancey! i'm still finding their crazy pronunciation of things hillarious and confusing especialy when they tell us to 'toss it off' and come back to the front or talk about how much the critic 'love fanny'. Celia and I have immature laughing fits that only about 4 toher people get who have been to england on exchanges! but it's all fun and games... and no mum we don't obviously laugh in the teacher's face.. we have tact! but yeah it's funny!
tomorrow is the ride a long with the drug detectives.. sooo excited!! we're going at 7pm and then all going out for drinks so that should be fun! oo and on friday this guy from uni's having a funk party at his house about 5mins from the uni... the funk party just means he's got a funk band playing so should be fun! and less crazy than the last party we went to!
I've been looking into tickets to trinidad and they're soo cheap so excited about that!! oh and the snow's going which is goood! soon (ish) it'll be hot and we're going to road trip to ocean city and party..apparently it's not that preey but good for parties and everyone our age goes to party so more excitement there!! i'm killing time because i'm about to go out but cannot be bothered to start getting ready!!
i hope everything's good back home and work/play whatever is all going well and everyone is happy and healthy!! love you all
happy wednesday xxxxx

step performance

so last night was senior night which is means it's the last basketball matches of the season so the last matches the seniors will play at goucher so a bit of a big deal. we stepped at half time was fun and went well =) this whole week the team's been practising 10.30-midnight so it has been exhausting, especially as it's the first full week of class we've had. but it's over and it was fun. I'm taking extra classes now because i want to do more ballet and contemporary and have an amazing choreography teacher who teaches a contemporary class a level lower than my class at the moment but it's sooo fun and i love his style so i'm taking that and it's suuuuuccchh a work out so it's fun! i had a 2hour rehearsal today with my dancers and i'm sooo happy. they worked soo hard and my piece is looking good =) i think by spring break it'll be finished (3weeks) if not the week after because i'm keep the stucture simple and have most of the movement now it' just putting it together and getting my friends who are going to drum for it and working out what else i'm using for the music.. George composed a wicked piece which has crazy time signatures and there's 2minutes of it which is perrrfeecctt for a crazy section of my piece and so he's letting me use that because he's amazing soo i'm going to link it with other music..ok so this is dull and i'm getting very excited about ym piece so i'm going to stop rambling about it! but yeah i'm still having an amazing time and my exhausting week is over so am happy!!!

i hope everyone back in england and dani who's the otherside of the world are all good=) love you guys xxxxxxx

first step practise!

first step practise was sooooo fun! but i'm sooo exhausted from doing nothing in all the snow days and partying and the gym that all yesterday I just wanted to sleep so by the time it was 9pm and time for african dance and drumming I was tired..and then had step practise 10.30pm - midnight i was awake! which iwas annoyign because i couldn't sleep last night..but oh well!! the team are all lovely and there's loads of fun things coming up including a pool party that we're hosting in april (hoping it's on the 25th!) so yeah all good and the step we learnt last night was soooo coool! and I have no bruises from it so success! I'm getting on well with my choreography too have soooo many ideas and my dancers are all amamzingly talented and really enthusiastic about it!
oh i'm stepping at the senior basketball night on saturday (the last matches of the season both womens and mens so it's a big deal) I will not be able to keep a straight face during the national anthem again...i'm hoping my friend's going to be singing it on the mic because then i'll take it more seriously..last time they just played a really really REALLY bad cd of it so hopefully it'll be good!

There's still a ridiculous amount of snow everywhere which is annoying when trying to get to class. I've slid on some ice twice in a row now yesterday morning on the way to jazz and this morning on the way to ballet. everyone in front of me did it too both time..stupid stupid snow.. but it was really funny!!
I hope everything's good back in england! happy tuesday xxx

goodtimes!!!

finally got off campus last night and went to see spank rock at a music venueand then partied at a house party with them and all my friends it was really cool...there are very funny very drunk pictures on facebook! oh and then so far today i got up and helped my friend get her car out of it's snowed in parking space... i fell on my bum sooo many times..still drunk (not goood behaviour..but good teenage behaviour!!! i'm finally over my cold/head cold fluey thing so hapy to be partying again) so yeah goood times!!! i hope all's good back home! happy valentines day people for tomorrow!! it's so funny how many adverts there are about it here. sooo funny!!!

i got on the step team! wooooo

....and more snow!!

so it's snowing a lot again! it's supposed to be as much as the weekend which means a hell of a lot of snow. earlier i walked from one of the cafes to the dance studios, not realising there wasn't a proper path plowed out and it was thigh high and this was before it started snowing again sooo yeah! tomorrow's another snow day, my friend steph dug her car out from the snow today hoping that we'd be able to get into baltimore tomorrow because we're getting cabin fever but we're guessing by the morning it'll be just as covered which suuucckksss and we think the shuttle won't be running into baltimore either sooo we're gonna have a movie and gym day!

I tried out for the step team tonight. it was sooo fun! muuch much muuuch better than cheerleading! so hoefully I get in, I'll find out by friday latest because they're holding auditions tomorrow day time too so fingers crossed!

i hope everything's good back in england, i heard it snowed there a couple of days ago..i hope it's less covered in snow than here...i doubt they'd know how to handle it there (not that they really do here but ho hum!)

happy tuesday guys..well i guesss it's not wednesday for you but yeah happy days =)

oh yeah!

we went to washington dc on thursday to see the alvin ailey dance company at the kenedcy centre...possibly the most amazing dancing i've ever seen. revelations almost made me cry! i cannot wait to go to new york after school's out and take open classes there. it's going to be amazing! oh and my friend's dad lives in ny so we're going to road trip up in a couple of weeks so i'll hopefully take classes there then, I'm so excited!!!

less of a ramble!!

so we've been snowed in this weekend and it was cancelled today. Good due to all the superbowl festivities last night! i actually understand the rules and had fun! anyways i just witnessed a Goucher basketball match. it was hillarious. they sang the national anthem at the start ( i wasn't expecting it for a stupid reason and found it sooo funny, was hard to supress the giggles!) but other than that it was still funny! the coaches were angry and shouting it was so funny. also they are NOT GOOD!! well they're alright the score was 57-61 but still compared to when I've seen Jerome play and bedford college it was just pitiful! oo and they have a mascot which is soooo funny and a really old dj that does the music every time out! I've never laughed so much!!

the two week catch up!!

hey so i've been sooo rubbish and keep forgettign to write on this.. soo the past 2 weeks have been sooo fun!soo my classes are amazing! on mondays,wednesdays and fridays i have ballet,jazz then musical theatre, contemporary and the teachers are amamzzing and everyone's lovely in my classes and i do african dance and drumming and another ballet class and contemporary and choreography and yeah i love it here!!!
so we had a bit of a crazy time last saturday when it snowed a ridiculous amount (or so we thought..it was nothing compared to last night and today) and so we were in towson (the place goucher college is in) and not properly dressed for the snow as in no warm socks or gloves (because we got a lift to the mall and were just planning on staying there and i'm an idiot..but i did have my flowery wellies on!) celia and i decided to go to downtown baltimore to meeet u=our friend amirah (and i reallyyy wanted to go to urban outfitters to get things from the sale and the only shop is in the inner harbour) so we went....and it was all funa nd games and really pretty there and soo tourist but cool! oh and we asked a guy for directions and he thought my accent was fake so that was funny! but anyways so on the way back we get a normal bus to the stop where we know we can get the free shuttle because we didn't know where else to get the free shuttle from...but then on the bus on the way the driver says he's not going to the shuttle stop due to the snow so we get off.... well he tells us too so we assume it's safe to..
it's not!

but luckily we're in the ghetto in baltimore but opposite the police station! no taxis would come to get us, the police tried to get us a taxi but no such luck too..sooo we got a lift home with 4 drug detectives in a blacked out suv! which was pretty cool they told us how dodgey the area is and that we shouldn't've been told to get off the bus.. but ho hum all is good and we were safe and next week we're going on a ride a long with them around where the wire was filmed and we're gonna party with them at a club in towson (yes my id works yay!)

but yeah so that was scary...but oh well we're ok and safe and yeah on wednesday we held auditions for our choreographies so I auditioned dancers for my piece which was really cool and i've got some amazing dancers so i'm excited and after african dance the other day a senior was saying rhythms from indian dancing and i'm kinda incorporating indian dancing into my piece and so he's going to be like on stage drumming and saying rhythms in my piece so i'm excited!! first rehearsal tomorrow!

everyone here is so lovely and fun and today there's at least 2 foot of snow outside it's mad i've never seen so much now in my life but it's not too cold so yeah...

i'm very hyper because i've just had a frozen yogurt with mango soo yeah.. i need to stop writing we're having a party here tonight so need to go sort things out!! i'll write less and more interesting stuff soon!

happy sunday guys =)