The Chronicles of My Summer: Dance Team

I never truly realized how much I missed my StUD girls until I saw them again. We started out our season hosting a dance camp for 5th-8th grade girls who are interested in joining the dance team if they choose to attend SUA for high school. And despite the fact that I left my house before 8am each morning, it was so fun.

One word: snort. If you haven't played this game before, you have yet to fully live. However, it may be necessary to play with a few people under the age of 12 in order to justify yourselves. The rules are simple: keep your mouth open, and don't show teeth. Sit in a circle, and take turns passing the snort around, and yes I mean literally snort in your neighbor's face, like a pig. You can pass it either way, which may get you into some pretty epic snort battles if you ask me. You need to be extremely comfortable with yourself to play this game, but it is so worth it.

At the camp, we split up into small groups, and I was very lucky to be the small group leader for what came to be known as the Angry Unicorns. My girls were awesome, learned the dance we taught them better than I did, and even practiced without me saying anything. I was so proud! I may be biased, but our team cheer was pretty awesome. We ended it by screaming "get angry!" and charging forwards with our right index fingers serving as symbolic facial horns. I have a feeling I'm never going to live that one down.

Practices are going great as well. We've started learning a jazz routine for Varsity and a hip-hop routine for All Stars. They're going to be epic. Songs include I Will Survive, I'm Every Woman, Ring The Alarm, Move If You Wanna, and Church. Long story short, I'm Batman, and my freshman (now sophomore) is hopefully the Joker. So.Pumped.