This is a little sample of what my days have consisted of for the past 2 weeks.
I have been at China Dance Camp. Our school was in a competition against 18 other primary schools and we were determined to win!
We had practice everyday for an hour, until the week before the actual competition then we had at the least 2 hours. Then they would let the foreigners go and all the Chinese teachers would continue to practice for like 4-5 hours!
The school hired a professional dancer to come and teach us this dance, along with someone to make the outfits, and a makeup person to come pretty us all up on the day of the competition. It was insane, so much effort to make these school teachers professional dancers.
A few days before the performance they realized that the dance was too long so they cut out about 3/4th of the foreigners dance :) Which was ok by me but we had just spent so many hours learning this dance and now we were down to 45 seconds on stage :)

So the day of the competition came and we spend all morning getting ready for it, practicing, put on our lovely bright orange shirts, and caking on the makeup. This video isn't at the actual competition it is at a track meet that we participated in this weekend.
The results came in and we got first place! So all the work was worth it! Until I found out that all that meant was that we go on to the next round! That means.... more practice... more tired legs... more Chihuahua...

This isn't the whole dance, it's only the last part but still the best part... cause I'm in it :)


They did this after our dance, it was way cool.


Wish me luck in Dance Camp this week :)