3-24-10; 11:37 PM
Day of classes
In Razvitie Rechi, we were talking about travel today!!! So much fun! So, Tamara Evegen'evna asked us about our favorite trips we'd ever taken. Naturally, I told everyone about the month I got to spend in China with my incredible friend Yitian, and her family!
Among the things *I* learned about that trip in class --
--Did you know that I got sick in China because I, "ate everything in sight?"
(That, according to Tamara… Ha ha ha ha. I love Razvitie Rechi.)
(And if I'd eaten everything in sight, I wouldn't ever have gotten in trouble for not eating enough!!)
When Anya said, "She got sick because she ate the McDonald's," Tamara Evgen'evna just said, "That's *her* version of it." Ha ha ha!!!!
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I *FINALLY* met Vitalii! Larissa wasn't lying -- he's quite handsome. I like his eyelashes… =o///o=''
And you have to love meetings where nobody is fluent in one language, and when one person [me] is already nervous about meeting in the first place. Ha ha ha. There were definitely a few, "Uh…. What?"s, and some awkward silences, and laughter to cover everything up. =^__^= '' Really, it wasn't too bad though. I understood almost everything, and when I didn't, he either said it in a different way, or gave me one or two words in English that cleared it up.
"You'll teach me English, and I'll teach you to dance!" he said, at one point. I am all for that. XD
While we were walking out of the studio, he actually told me my Russian was very good -- something I still don't believe when I hear it. But, hey, I'll take what I can get. I'm going to need it to be good, when it comes to lesson time!
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Speaking of lessons; unfortunately, I didn't get to do a lesson tonight. I was late in getting there (a lovely "everyone get off the train" moment -- complete with watching a lady whack a guy trying to wake him up, only to have some other guy and a Militsia man bodily *drag* him off of the train…) -- and Vitalii was later than I was, as it turned out. Then he got whisked off for some meeting, so I got to spend a good half an hour or so watching some really fantastic people practice. As usual, they were just *amazing* -- but it's good to watch them, to try to learn... *laughing* I even got treated to one of the more handsome ones dancing in his latin pants with the half-tucked-in, billowy white shirt wide open, etc. etc. etc. (It's like a trashy romance novel, sometimes, I swear. ... Sometimes, I just love ballroom. =^///^='') (Really though, he and his partner were very good. *Very* good. They were fun to watch.)
By the time Vitalii came back to get me, it was too late for us to do a lesson, but we chatted a little bit -- on a personal level, why I was here, who I was staying with (He'd thought that maybe I had Russian parents, but learned English (being born in the States), and so I was here to learn Russian. Was I staying with relatives? - etc.) -- and on a dance level, what was my rank in the States (good luck trying to explain *that* in Russian…) etc.
Speaking of Rank, it seems that Vitalii is a former champion of [all of] Russia -- he said on the "student" level -- but I don't think that he meant that in the same way as I told him my ranking in "Collegiate." -- I'm assuming he just meant amateur. Which basically just means that he's amazing, for all intents and purposes.
(Enter one of said, "awkward/first meeting conversation" bits -- after he said he was a champion (on a student level), I said, "Well, you'll be much better than me, I guarantee it," -- thinking in relation to the US Collegiate circuit -- But then I had a moment of realizing that that comparison wasn't going to be understood, and hastily added, "Well, of course you're better than me…! [Duh!]" (Given that he's the teacher.) But I still felt stupid about it. = O_o = )
I'll get to find out on Friday just how amazing. *laughs* Hopefully, the 3.5 / 4 th time will be the charm! I'm SO ready for my lessons to start!!
On the other hand, I'm SO nervous for them to start. Mostly because I just don't want to look like a fool. But then again, the more I look like a fool, the faster we can find what needs to be fixed [EVERYTHING], and the faster I will improve. There's no time to waste, worrying about how I look or what other people might think, looking at me. The only thing I need to focus on is just working to get better. Better, better, better…. …. I'm still nervous! Ha ha ha!
Time for either some homework, or straight to bed… I'm really rather tired....
Love, happily,
Moscow Kitty; 11:50 PM
=^__^= / Zzzzzzzzzzzz……
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