Third times a charm

Dance is my inspiration and motivation to keep me going. While dancing, understanding that there are many failures and successes is something that will come. There have been many times that I have failed, and many times that I have had success. Dance is very technical, if you do not have the right technique while preforming a skill, you will fail to do the skill correctly. I have been consistently training in dance for 15 years now. Two of my biggest failures during dance were running for a S.H.I.P scholarship and running for a title. The S.H.I.P scholarship is a full scholarship to a dance training program in New York for a week at the University of Buffalo. The scholarship is given to one person at the end of the season. I had to do an interview, write and essay and go to many master classes while they watched us and how we obtain information, our technique and attitude. They also watch your solos and other routines while deciding who it will be given to. To receive this scholarship is a huge opportunity as well as a huge deal. I did not succeed the first time. I was really upset, but I wanted it so much i tried to do it again. I still did not get the scholarship. I laughed for a while and told myself that it wasn’t a big deal. I talked about it with my friends and laughed it off again and again, not thinking that I was going to run for the scholarship for the third time. But I did. I finally got the scholarship that I had been laughing about saying that I would not get it and I did.

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