Evaluations

Almost the whole team came today one hour early so that we could do some last minute reviewing and help each other out with the different dances we had learned throughout the first month of practices. Everyone had something different that they couldn’t quite grasp or just needed a little bit more review on… mine was the four sidelines. Some other rookies would confuse the fight song, and even a few of the Vets needed help for the Pom that one of our Captains taught us. Everyone was just about in the same boat, which I think got all of us to bond even more since we all sympathized with each other. While the actual evaluations were happening, we were all routing for one another, but once it was my turn, I would try to relax and just think about having fun. I thought Brenda would’ve seemed a little too intimidating, so much so that I wouldn’t be able to remember the dances. But as intimidating as she was, I still felt comfortable with her enough that I really COULD have fun when I was dancing. I just pretended like I wasn’t even being evaluated, that I was just entertaining a few people in the room.

Speaking of which, we had two girls come in as well and they were doing an assignment for their ENC 1101 class that were there throughout the evaluations and then interviewed a few of us, me included. They were doing a sort of article on stereotypes in dance. I told them about how most people think we’re not intelligent, but I myself am in the Honors College, so that wasn’t credible. Also how most people think that we’re too girly and have a pricey upkeep, but I myself like playing video games and shopping at Wal-Mart. They asked a few Vets the same questions as well to get an average answer. What was really cool about the day of evaluations was the surprise that we all got when we learned we were going to get our uniforms that day. I WAS TOTALLY PSYCHED ABOUT GETTING UNIFORMS I COULDN’T EVEN HOLD MY EXCITEMENT AND I TRIED IT OUT RIGHT WHEN I LEFT THE STORAGE ROOM. In fact, I had it on backwards until a Vet told me I had it on wrong, but that was fine because I finally had the ‘famous’ uniform. It was definitely a really GREAT day!