yes, i have a midterm for ballroom

Most people laugh when they hear I have a ballroom midterm.

They look at me strangely when they find that I’m taking it way too seriously.

The midterm is simply performing – you have a group that you rotate dances with (two-step, rumba, and cha-cha), and then a partner of choice for which you’ll dance all four dances with (adding in the quickstep). Not that hard.

And I know all the steps. (They aren’t that hard either.) I’m a decent follower. But my problem with this class lies in the fact that I consider myself a dancer. Therefore, I’m extremely frustrated that I can’t do many of the moves as well as I would like (especially in the Latin dances, because the way of moving/dancing is not quite like ballet. ha!)

It probably also doesn’t help that my standard for myself is the teacher or the Advanced II students, and I’m in the intro class.

Sometimes I need to learn to take pressure off myself. I love learning new things. I just hate being bad at them first!

It’s a fact of life, I suppose. And a bit too much pride.

But the fun part is that this is a good excuse for me to be taking extra dance classes and practicing more, which I do love!

End rant. back to work.