Saturday, August 07, 2004
i was going to come online and bitch about the salsaII teacher but i can't be bothered now. stupid crap. can't be bothered coz i've run everything over in my head and there's really too much to say and i just feel too shitty to say it all.
basically, i took my first salsaII lesson today and everything went well up to the point where the female teacher (there were two, one male one female) discovered that i'm still in the middle of my salsaI course. after which, she expressedly forbade me from taking salsaII until i've completed salsaI. never mind the fact that i already know all the salsaI moves (and more!) and that all my friends are in salsaII and that i won't be able to do both consecutively coz of prelims which is one of the reasons i'm doing it simultaneously, she said it'll be "unfair" for the salsaI teacher (why? because he has a student who knows what he's gonna teach??! if that isn't absurd enough, a quarter of the students already know what will be coming up next thru friends etc). She also says that the classes are something one does progressively. ie, you learn salsaI so you'd be good enough to go salsaII. okayyy... the thing is, i already know salsaI and salsa is not like kayaking where you need the level one cert before you can take your level two. the only difference between salsaI and salsaII is that the moves in salsaII are more difficult. so if i can take it then what's the problem??? it's not as if one who has taken salsaI is automatically good enough to keep up with salsaII, nor is it always true that a person who has done salsaI is better than one who hasn't. so if i'm better than one who has completed the level one course, then what's the big deal?! and in the class, i was definitely not the worst female dancer. not even the worst dancer fullstop. some of the guys in the class hadn't even taken salsaI (ie. porshee's friends) and they were really quite lost. so it really upset me (and pissed me off), when that aforementioned female teacher comes up to me after my salsaI class and says that "it was quite obvious you hadn't completed your course as compared to the other people in class". like wth??? what a stupid hypocrite! i was able to do the crossbody turns when some of the other girls in class couldn't. granted i fumbled the double left turn but some of the rest couldn't get it also and she herself said that it takes time to perfect. might as well throw all the students out of class and be done with it! screwed up shit. even the male teacher had no complaints about my performance. perhaps he would have if someone went "psst, that girl's from salsaI! *growl* load of crap.
why do i even try? try and try and try only to be put down again and again and again... loony chickens. why am i even appealing to Harvard??? HARVARD of all places!!! what's the bloody point?!?!??!?!?!??! get lost. just get lost and leave me alone...
*cries myself to sleep*
8:15 PM