- March 22, 2010, Monday -> Last day of Boots Anson-Roa's class.
- Like before, we had to perform individually (though it was OK if we merged, or if we asked help from people not in our class.) The performances served as our final exam....and I think this is the most unique final "exam" I ever had in my life so far.
- I decided to do a Chinese dance, deviating from the usual Indian (or Indian related) dances that I did in previous performances. (Then again there was that flamenco thing that I did for our Lit14 play in summer 2008.)
-My dance was made up of two parts. The first part was a pre-choreographed Kang Ding Liu Liu dance. (Videos of many dance troupes that did the same routine can be found on youtube.) I did change some parts though, since this dance wasn't made to be a solo dance.
- The second part of my dance was a combination of many Chinese dances from the 56 tribes of China. The background music used was Vanessa Mae's Happy Valley. (This song was dubbed as the Reunification Overture.) The dances that were shown in this portion were the Dai Peacock Dance, Miao (Hmong) Dance, Mongolian Dance, Uyghur Dance, Long Cloth Dance, Fan Dance, and the Korean Drum Dance (yes, Koreans form an official minorty group in China, and China has its version of the drum dance too.) I just hoped I was able to execute them nice enough.
- Joe did a Spanish-English version of Go the Distance, which I think was unique, Nica and her awesome violinist friend did a cover of Ugoy ng Duyan, Paoie sang with her *ehem* friend Anton, Chrissy sang Smile a capella, and Leana did a broadway-like performance of the song Home, from the broadway Beauty and the Beast.
- I was surprised since blockmates, and a few other friends, joined the class as an impromptu audience. I'm not sure if Nica gave them the idea to watch our performances, since they were all together in Fr. Arcilla's finals. (Nica came in late, which we all knew beforehand, since her histo finals was in conflict with our performance class. Good thing her finals ended an hour before our class ended.)
- My blockmates, and friends, who suddenly came to watch the performances immediately reminded me of HSM 1's last Breaking Free number, when everyone started to barge in the auditorium as Tory and Gabriella were singing. (Yack, I'm not an HSM fan.)
- We had a small gathering after our superty duperty extended class. Of course, we wouldn't miss taking a group picture of Ma'am Boots. Sadly, the seniors who left earlier, as well as our German exchange student who went back to Germany already, weren't included in the picture. Oh well. The group picture we had was a la Mano Po. Hahahaha. :D:D:D:D
**Ma'am Boots' comment when she first saw me in my costume: "Alam mo, puwede ka nang maging mascot ng Chowking!!" Hahahaha.
