Basically, my partner Brian came up with a great idea to journalize everything that goes on this summer, and I am completely copying his great idea =)So here is week one in a nutshell:
Upon entering LA, I met the incredible family that I am staying with. Bishop Moriyama, his wife Julie and daughter Kara are some of the kindest people I have met. And an added perk- you can see the ocean from their house which means I get ready in the morning looking out at the ocean =) This week has brought us beautiful 80 degree weather and with that a necessary trip to the beach. Redondo beach is beautiful- not too many people, easy access, and gorgeous views. I may or may not have gotten a little burnt, but it was worth it. We met our new boss, Tom, who took us out to dinner (best Chinese food ever!), and got to teach our first group lesson. The studio has some of the top world professionals come in and teach as well as local professionals and we realized how lucky we are to work here with such amazing people- and how incredibly inadequate we feel. We were told that we get more clients by being seen, so basically we are encouraged to practice as much as possible. Dream do come true.
Also we decided a trip down to the LA fashion district was necessary =)
This weekend we got to work and compete at The Emerald Ball, put on by Wayne Eng. It was great to see some judges we have worked with in the past and to meet some new ones. When some of them found out we would be here all summer, they quickly jumped up to introduce us to people we "have to work with." One judge even offered us a job at her studio in Connecticut following our college graduation. =). The competition itself for us went pretty good- though we plan to do better next time. College finals and illnesses along with moving kind of put our pre-comp practice time to the lowest its ever been- that will change though.
So I had signed us up to work at 9am and they decided to switch it on me, and we ended up working at 7AM! If looks could kill, I would be dead after all the looks from Brian... 7 AM... sorry Bri. The other runner and I decided to let Brian take the first few hours as a break... It didn`t help. He still hated me for the early morning...=) But thankfully, it paid off in the form of chatting it up with the judges and Marianne Nicole (aka our ballroom fairy godmother) introducing us to people we needed to meet. I also had a fun time talking to a lot of the male judges and getting winks from Corky Ballas...haha. After we worked, we came back to Brian`s house, watched Glee and several other TV shows then took a nice deserved 5 hour nap. Then we got all ready and headed to the Saturday night session...
The best part of the weekend by far was Saturday nights Professional international Latin. We were both pleased and surprised to see not only Anna and Roman, but current world latin champions Riccardo and Yulia as well =) The competition was incredible! We wanted to watch everyone at once-how cool it was to see all of these competitors we stalk on YouTube compete live in front of us. Needless to say, we were quite happy with the weekend. Also, I got to see my favorite judge of all time-Ken Sloan... love him.
Come Sunday, we are dead. We got all ready to attend the Torrance Stake YSA ward this afternoon only to realize today was stake conference... of course. So we quickly headed over to my host family`s ward and attended church with them- which nicely included break the fast at the end- yay food.
Over all, great week. Tomorrow we will find out our teaching schedule and set up our lessons with Roman and Anna... Bring on the summer
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