THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR

The end of my first year of college. When i am looking at the things that I have done the people that i have met, and the classes i have taken. i realize that I have had an amazing school year. I have grown as an individual and have seen my friends grow as well. My friends and i have been learning through this school year about ourselves and our majors. My friends and i will miss each other dearly. But I can not wait till i am back on Ball State Campus this fall. I am excited for all everything that is going to happen next year with my clubs and my roommates. i will always have next year. (and a couple more years.) cough* 4 years cough*. I have hope that i will have my friends for the rest of my life. 

well today i will be talking about friendship. this is an article on advice given to me from others and i have come to believe are true. 

Friendship is wehen you have someone who is able to make an emotional and social impact on your life with out the differences getting in the way. when i say friends will not let differences get in the way that means that the friend should not resent a friend for ever for a bad decision or an argument. Your true friends are the ones that will stay with you forever. The friends that matter are the ones you can talk to about anything and that you can rely on for help. Your friends should also be able to respect your opinion but still be able to voice there own opinion. when i say this i mean that a person should be able to say their mind to their friends but also be able to have their own opinion. 

People are so afraid at times that their opinions will hurt the relationship of their friendship. Friendships should be built on respect, trust and honesty. Friends should be able to see through differences and still realize that they are still friends. A real friend will Forgive and learn from their mistakes. I believe that when you find those friends you should not lose those friends at all. 

Blogosphere

Blogosphere

            My blog is about different adventures or activities I have learned. Such things like dancing and going barefoot. The reason for writing like this was because I have a good stories about my dancing. Now given, I had only started dancing this school year. I liked my stories about my dancing. I can look back at those entries into the blog and have a nostalgic moment from the good parts of my life. I am not saying those are the only good parts. But those are some of the most recent fun moments in my life. My blog is about me. I thought the stories about me are fun and hilarious. The stories are all true therefore that makes them even funnier. Some adventures such as, when I went to the Indianapolis and other places. I got lost how funny is that when I had been there numerous times but I got lost. Well there is always something going to happen with trips like that.

            The medium for this blog was just centered around mainly good things in my life that I would want to share with others that read my blog. When I was thinking about what to write I always tried to remember the happy moments and the fun moments. Even though there was a story in my blog that is on the angry, saddened and frustrated. This is the story of facebook and some of the break ups that happen on facebook.  There will always be a bad one in the bunch. My blog is built around the ideas that happen during my time at Ball State University. I have liked my stories at Ball State University and will remember them because of this blog, if I chose to keep adding to the blog.

            The reason for me writing mainly happy stories about me was because, I was always in a good mood when I wrote the blog.  I always had good friends that I admired and enjoyed hanging out with. Another good reason for writing so much on the dancing was because it was always on Thursdays that I wrote the blog posts. And each blog post was before my ball room class. My mind was already in that frame of mind when I wrote them.  

            I think my blog posts have been good not the most original and the most “aww” inspiring but they are my thoughts and I was able to put them on paper in a well logical manor. I think there could have been more posts on the blog role. I think there are plenty more stories that could have been told. I think grammatically I have gotten better throughout the blog.

            I believe that blogs in the world are useful to get your ideas out there for the mass media. Another good reason for having the blogs is to have a place that you can vent or just keep a diary. I enjoy going back and looking at my blog about the dancing stories. The memories are so important to me and other people.   

NO SHOES

Well for the day i will being going barefoot. This is because there are people in Africa that are not able to buy shoes. So because of this the africans develop a foot disease called Podoconiosis. While doing this people will talk to me about the reason for being barefoot. People today including myself,  take for granted the fact that we have the ability to get shoes. i also like to be bare foot so this is also a plus for me. I am life guard at a beach in my home town and i walk across sand and rock all the time. I enjoy being apart of a good cause that i can also have fun spreading the word about the problems that people face in the world daily. For more information on this you can go to http://www.tomsshoes.com/ for more information on the subject. he also has a facebook page. 

The weather today is amazing. When i look outside my window i see a tree that is budding, coupled birds tweeting away. The grass is green and the sun is high. On my way to class i look at the beautiful landscape. Ball state has made put the red mulch and the butter cup flowers in the ground. Spring has begun. the temperature was cool throughout the morning. The day was beautiful as soon as noon was struck by the Ball Bell Tower. People are happy and smiling. The day was one that i would not give up for the world. 

Facebook

So how many people have been broken up with on facebook. Well I am one of them. My girlfriend at the time had thought about breaking up with me. so instead of making any closure broke up with me on facebook. Her and I had a discussion about the idea of breaking up because we have not seen each other recently before the facebook thing. i had told her that i am willing to work on this with her and we can get through this little rough patch. The real question is why did  i not remember that if she does not have something perfect the first time she gives up. The greatest part is that i had to hear sorry from at least 5 of my friends about the relationship being broken up. Wow!!! This is the worse thing ever. Then i message her and say are we  complicated or actually broken up.  She replies with, " i'm Sorry, were not dating." So i as the good person as i am, i write her and tell her how i feel about the situation. I was not mean or the least bit rude. The whole point of me writing was to make her feel like she did something wrong, which she did.  well we are now at a lower level of friendship. almost to the acquaintance level.  Even though, the whole relationship ended badly. So my advice to you is not to put your relationships on facebook. 

Jonny Carinos

            I am going to do a review over Jonny Carinos. This is a restaurant located in Muncie Indiana.  This place is an Italian restaurant. I enjoyed the atmosphere the food and the employees. Everything that the place did was awesome.

When you first enter the building you get this cool and relaxed vibes. The interior has an old Italian feeling.  You here a lively and yet relaxed Jazz music playing of music. The interior has warm colors of yellows and reds. the room feels welcoming.  When you are at your table your waiter/waitress will meet with you he will get you your drinks. Then bring out this oil and vinegar mix and a loaf of fresh bread. This is delicious. The bread and the oil vinegar mix is a good seasoning for the bread. You look through the menu and you just think to yourself there are to many good things in this menu to choose from. “What do I choose?” I will then look for something new that I have not had. I chose a chicken Alfredo with mushrooms and peppers. Unfortunately I can not remember the food. That does not mean it was not good just meant that I can not spell the name.

The food comes and you are just looking at this in wow. How amazing is this going to be? I took a bite of this dish and I was amazed. The food was succulent and juicy. I was impressed the flavors were well blended. The people that were with were all impressed with the food they all enjoyed their dishes extremely. 

Teaching (funny)

I was at a salsa night for the Ball State Latino Club. At this meeting I learned Salsa, Meringue, and Bachata that night. At the end of the night I decided to start swing dancing. (you can swing dance to anything) lucky for me there were some people from the Ball State Swing Society. We were swinging and having fun. The people that were at the dance decided they wanted to learn what this dance is. We offered to teach them some simple moves that would take no time to learn. They got through with no broken bones. until they wanted to learn some dips. This guy dropped this girl 3 times that night. OMG Why? he could not figure out how to dip this chick. now i tried it with her once to see why he could not get it. To my surprise she freaks out and curls up in a ball and he has to support all of her weight. so I take her by the hand spin her twice and put her into a dip. she is fine for the moment then starts to panic as she is getting closer to the floor  i warned her, " if you freak out i will drop you on purpose. RELAX!!" she did. So I informed the guy that it was her fault every time and that she just needs to relax and both of them will do fine. So life goes on and for the rest of the night they swing.  

(example of a dip.) 

 

ME

I feel as if I need to talk about me now since you know that i am a dancer. (obvious) Right now I am currently a student at Ball State University. I started a blog so that I could share my interesting stories about my life. I think I have been leaning to much to the dance and not my self so i am going to start to right about my self. 

I am currently a working towards a double major in Spanish and Education. the Discipline is in Spanish for the education major. I am currently a Freshmen and loving it. I have had the best experience possible with the college experience. I have a wonderful RA and amazing friends. i also have this bodacious Girlfriend. She is fine. Her name is Haley. Any way I do Swing dancing with my girlfriend. She only wants to do the Swing so I do not force her to do other things. For the other dances i dance with a good friend, her name is Kari. She is good if you ever want some good dance parters look them up.  WOW that was a tangent on what this was about. I am a good hearted and warm individual that sees the good in others most of the time before any one else. I think that any one can dance and that when you want to relieve stress or just have fun DANCE. ( the real question is are we humans? or are we dancers?) LOL  

Lost in Indianapolis

When a group of friends and I wanted to go to the dinner in Fountain Square coincidently the name of the restaraunt is the Fountain Square Dinner. The group decided to leave for Indy early to go to dinner with friends. i get onto 465 south. i am now looking for fletcher and at fletcher i go to fountain square i then could not find fletcher. i thought i missed it because i got all the way to the south side of Indy. So we turned around and went north from there we told each other that we will look really hard for fletcher going to get to Fountain Square. We get to the very north of Indianapolis with out finding Fletcher. so we gave up on the idea of eating at the Fountain Square Dinner. We ate at a McDonalds. While we were there i decided to ask someone where might fountain Square be he said that our directions were right except we missed a step we need to get on I-70 west. This was my mistake, not getting on I-70. I then new what needed to be done. After dinner we went on 465 south. then went to I-70 west. Got off on fletcher. But the main part is even though you are lost it is better to be lost with friends. 

The Fox Trot is so much different to swing that i am used too. The teacher is so funny when he teaches. His name is Jachov. He is hilarious he has a very sarcastic questions. that he wants sarcastinc answers. For example, he would ask "what did you just do?" everyone would be in a blank but the answer that he is looking for is dancing. I am excited just going to see him.  In the Fox trot there is still 6 counts in the Fox Trot. This is similar to the swing. The main differences is you start every move you go forward or backward not particularly to the side the sides like in the swing. In Foxtrot i found out, you can not raise your feet. glide your feet. by gliding your feet it looks so much better and you look like a better dancer. the dance looks more elegant when you glide your feet too. my partner for this is Kari she is a good dancer and at times she might be a better dancer than I. (i know my ego is huge now). i am glad that i have the cool teacher with a great partner that does not lead me. 

Lindy Hop

So the lindy hop it is a lot harder than east coast swing. The basic step is 1-2-3 and 4-5-6-7 and 8. Now do this step and then make the girl turn around you and not get dizzy all at the same time. The greatest part is that when you finished learning this dance and you can do it well you can stylize. Then after I learned how to Lindy Hop I was able to teach others. so no matter how hard the dance maybe you can do it.  

 

Salsa

One of the RA's in my dorm invited me to go to salsa night. So since dancing is a partner dance I brought another friend that I thought would be good. she ended up being a leader as a follower. In my opinion those are the worst kinds of follows. If you do not know what I am talking about just think of yourself as the lead or man in most cases. Now you have this woman, she can dance like nobodies business. Now as the guy you are attracted to this you think hey maybe her and i will look good together. because as a guy you are a good lead and she looks like a good follow. you ask her to dance. she says "yes". You get on the dance floor and you figure out that she is pulling you around and telling you where to go. So you get used to it for a minute and you go with it. Then you realize that she might has well have been dancing with her self. Now as a lead you need to assert yourself you need to lead. You then stop you tell her, "please, follow me".  She responds with a nod of the head. Then you begin the dance. She stumbles slightly and becomes vulnerable as a dancer. But she learned how to follow as a follower. She has now become a better dancer any way. So the moral of this is to play your part in dancing. The whole routine or free for all will work slightly less than perfect. And most guys if they are really into dancing will let you lead if you want.  So be the best that you can be at given moments in your life.   Well then again, have fun with it works too. 

Swing Dancing

When I began as a Swing dance I knew the basic. i then got into a swing dancing club and I learned so much I found a lot of hot women to dance with and a lot of good friends at the swing dancing club. Dancing was one of the best ways to meet women for me.  When i was at the first meeting i learned two moves, the inside out turn and the man turn. From here I then went to fountain square that weekend and learned so much. Fountain Square is a club in Indianapolis and if any of you crazy swinging cats out there want to swing dance this is the place to go. when I was there I learned the pretzel, the hammer lock, the pin wheel, the sweet heart and a lot of other cool things. so the moral of this story is, dance with confidence and a willingness to learn and dancing and many other things in life will come easier.