Showing posts with label BYU Youth Ballroom Camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BYU Youth Ballroom Camp. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

My Summer Trip to Provo, Part 1

I spent the last week and a half in Provo. It's kind of funny that during my summer home from school I took a trip back up there, but I love it. So funny story, when I first got to Provo, my partner Brenton called me and told me he'd be there in 10 minutes to pick me up. I was so excited to see him again!! I hurried to get ready and after 10 minutes there was a knock at the door. B yelled "Come in!" and I rounded the corner from the hallway all ready to tackle Brenton. Much to my dismay, it wasn't him!! It was M's boyfriend M2(who used to be my boyfriend). I was so disappointed I'm pretty sure my whole countenance fell. "Oh hi." The poor guy, I wasn't disappointed to see him, I was just disappointed it wasn't Brenton. However, when Brenton came over M2 was just sitting on the couch so I felt really awkward running and tackling Brenton in front of him. So I just scurried over and hugged him. Darn M2, he ruined my plans! But regardless, it was so good to be back with Brenton and dancing with him again.

I spent the whole time dancing or doing dancing related things. I got to be a TA for the BYU Youth Ballroom Camp. It was amazing because I TAed for some of the best ballroom dancers in America. I worked with Tomas, Christian Perry, Urs, and Curt Holman (from BYU). It was incredible.


I now have some new ideas for teaching ballroom to children. Out of the guest professionals, Christian was my favorite teacher to TA. Everyone seemed to love Tomas, but he had a nasty habit of hitting on all of his TA's even though he is married. Uh...that just made me a little uncomfortable. I loved TAing for Curt too because he is one of the dance teachers at BYU that I look up to the most.

My dad flew in on Friday to see me compete in Dancesport. That night he took me and Brenton out to Tucanos for dinner. Mmmm... =) It was so dang good. Neither Brenton nor my dad had been there before and they loved it. It was such a good evening, nothing awkward. My dad and Brenton got along so well and they chatted away the whole night. We dropped Brenton off after dinner and then dad and I went to the grocery store to buy items to make a "Dancesport survival kit" for Brenton. It was so fun. We came back to my (well, M's) apartment to assemble it. MC and M were there and it totally threw M2 off guard when Dad walked in because it was always really tense and awkward between them. I silently laughed inside. After we made the kit, we dropped it off on Brenton's doorstep and then I texted him from Dad's phone to tell him to go outside.

I don't know why I bothered to do that because 1) It was something related to Dancesport and he probably could have guessed it was from me and 2) I signed my name on the card!