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November 17, 2008 11:11AM
Wow. Its been a while since I actually wrote a Blog, so I guess its time for an update.
As some of you know I've been busy dancing and stressing alot over the dancing, but I'm glad thats over now sort of! Basically, I had another BIG competition, so I had loads of extra classes to prepare for it, and on Friday it was the actual competition. I was sooo nervous! They called us side stage for the comp to start and it was crazy haha. People I'm on with always ask which way I go, so we don't crash into each other when we're onstage, and I REALLY have to think where I'm going to tell them!
When it was my turn to go onstage, I walked on smiling and the music started. I did a pretty good right foot of the one step, and went to do the left, got a tiny bit through it and FELL OVER. Now unless the judges ring the bell you have to get up and carry on, so I was crawling on the floor trying to get up and crying! Haha. Then the judges finally rang the bell and stopped us, and I was helped offstage. I have NO idea why I was crying, I wasn't hurt or anything, so gawd knows why. I guess becayse you work really hard for a few mins onstage, and when something goes wrong you can't help but feel disappointed.
Anyhow, my teacher raced side stage to make sure I was okay,a nd I was taken to some Physio who for some bizarre reason thought I'd hurt my ankle. I was given ice for my knee, even though it didn't hurt, and a bottle of water. When they made sure I really was okay, I was taken back to the stage, and got to redance. I almost slipped over again in a different part of the dance, but managed to stay upright this time. Haha. My other 2 dances went okay too.
The wait for the results was lame. But when they finally called them it was soo scary. Looking at the marks on screen, I kinda felt disappointed as they weren't as good as I'd hoped. But I was really pleased when they flipped the board and my name was in blue highlighting that I'd qualified for the Worlds. I finished 7th overall, though my teacher said I really deserved to have finished 5th. But we were REALLY pleased. It didn't matter where I'd come just qualifying was amazing. We then had to wait till they called the results for other age groups, before the presentation.
The girl that came 5th was crying her eyes out on stage, and when they announced on the stage 'Good Luck in Philadelphia' I cried a bit too. I was just soo pleased. Like theres soo many politics at competitions, it really sucks. So just to qualify on my own merit as opposed to my teacher 'asking' a judge to give me a good mark feels so much better. And I'm off to Philadelphia over Easter for the Worlds. I can't wait! I'm on the far right in the picture. In the raspberry coloured dress. :)
Other than the dancing, I've been pretty busy with schoolwork. Its sooo hard and stressful. I just want it to disappear. Then theres the exams and coursework and my application for University that I need to sort out. Its just arghh. :(
Its pretty quiet on the gig front atm, but I'm off to see Opeth on Wednesday, so that should be pretty awesome; they're such an amazing live band, so I know I won't be disappointed. :)
And I guess thats it really.
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Chris - Gadget BOYY. Hope you win the eBay bids.
Stephen - We love wham!
Kelly - Keep up the work and assignments. I know its really hard and stressful but stick at it. :)
Sas - Hopefully I can come to London to meet you and Kelly. That would be so awesome!
Angus - Good luck with the job applications. Sure you'll have one of them take you on, I'm sure. :)
Jess - I envy your school holidays. I want a longgg break too! :P
Graham - Lucky you going to see Trivum at the Boderline. I'm sooo jealous!
Scott - Hope everything is okayyy. You're cool too. :)
Nik - Hope Uni and everything is going okay for you. :)
Dawpull - Good Luck with the music. Sure you guys are going to do great.
Rowan - I hope Uni is going alright. Haven't heard from you in agess.
Sofia - Hope your feeling better now.. *Hugs*
Ela - I hope everything is going good for you too. :)
Claire x
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October 29, 2008 05:25AM
So I saw Trivium play last night, its been almost a year since The Black Crusade, so I'm glad they're back over here again!
Rowan (Requiem5897) was meant to be coming to mine for just after 4PM and we were going to the venue after that. Unfortunately, poor Rowan, travelled 1hr 30 mins away from his house and called me to say he'd forgotten money and ID! So he had to go all the way back home to get it, so we ended up goint to the gig without him, but met up later on.
I didn't get to the venue early, because I'm not as dedicated as some of you lot are haha. And ended up screwing up my make-up about 5 times because I 'forgot' how to apply eyeliner and it looked a mess. The 5th time looked better,so I thought screw that it'll do! Then I had to frantically sort out what I was taking to the venue, which took longer than I thought. I messed up my bedroom looking for stuff and that was that really.
Got to the venue and went to the box office to get my meet and greet passes and headed into the venue. We missed the 15 minute opening band and arrived just as the Amon Amarth intro was playing. I managed to get just behind the people on the barrier, so that was great! So just in time really! They were AMAZING. I wished they could of had longer!
Mastodon were absolutely AWLFUL! They were clearly trying to maximise their short set time by playing and playing and playing some more. The only interaction with the crowd was one of the guitarists saying 'You guys are alright'. You could barely hear the vocals, and at times it was just noise.. I just wanted them to get off stage, so I totally switched off during their set. My brother yawned all the way through it and other people around me said they could have fallen asleep during their set. So I hope they were just having an offnight and that they're better on other nights of the tour, but last night, like I said, they just didn't do it for me.
The wait for Trivium seemed to take agesssss! Finally the lights went out and I waited for Divinity, but it didn't happen. Instead some random rock show and light show started, so I was like huh, they got rid of Divinity?!! Then the lights turned blue after the rock song and Divinity started! The whole crowd appeared to be there for Trivium, everyone was shouting for Trivium! :) Then KG started and madness erupted over the venue! The party had finally commenced!
The guys played an awesome set. Throes was amazing! As were all of the songs played! I didn't want it to end! + it went by wayyyy to quickly. I hope the guys come back soon! haha.
Next stop, Meet & Greet. By this point EVERYONE is walking towards the bar, so we had to push our way through the crowd to get to the point where Melissa was meeting us. But no one else from TW was there, so I was panicking that we'd gone to the wrong side. But then Amir (I think?? haha) came with his friend, and we all slowly reached the point. Melissa then took us downstairs to this weird room, that was supposedly a kitchen, but looked more like a shower block. She told us to stay there while she went to get the guys..
We started talking amongst ourselves and got things out ready to be signed when the guys came. Unfortunately, these Security people came in and asked us why we were in the room, who'd let us in and that we shouldn't be in this room because its off limits because they prepare food in there! We had an arguement with them and explained it was the meet and greet and Trivium's tour manager had brought us down and told us to wait. We explained she'd be back in a second, but they were having none of it. The security guy got this woman, who told us the same thing, and we were kicked out and told go back upstairs to wait.
Melissa then brought the guys down the stairs. She is unaware we've been kicked out and speaks to security about it. By this point everyone knows Trivium are on the stairs and fans start to surround the area and try to get pix and stuff signed. Melissa then shouted for everyone without a blue wristband to back away.. and they soon did. Finally, we went downstairs to get things signed and get pictures with the guys. We all got hugged by each of them. Hehehe. :) But overall, it was really good!
After we went back upstairs to see Slayer, stood at the back of the room. My brother went in the moshes and as much as I would have LOVED to have gone in them with him, I had the camera to worry about, so I decided to stay well away from those areas. Haha.
All in all it was a great night. A massive thank you to Melissa for organising the meet and greet, taking pictures and sorting out the whole secuirty fiasco! . + thanks to Rowan for giving us a lift back home.. Hope you have a safe journey home buddy. Was cool to meet you!!
Next time Trivium are in the area, we need a Proper TW pre-show meet up haha.
Take Care.
Claire x
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October 21, 2008 04:01PM
This past week gone by its been a mix of highs and lows. The week started off awesomely with my Birthday but slowly dropped due to the sheer amounts of homework and essays that I've been bringing home. Its been a nightmare.On my actualy birthday, I spent the night at dancing clsas and doing homework. I've been spending soo much time doing work from when I've goit home from school right to rushing things the next morning and skipping other homework to meet the deadlines for other teachers. Just arghh. It seems to have died down a bit now though. I still have alot of work to do, but I'm managing it better I guess.
Last week I had an extra dancing classes because I had a Major Championship on the Saturday. It was hard work and it gets REALLY stressful coming up to the big competitions, but it was fun I guess. I had the actual competiition on Saturday. We travlled down on the day to Bognor Regis which is like 3 hours way and by the seaside. As soon as we got there, we found my teacher and found out one of our younger dancers had got a recall. A recall is where the top 50% of dancers entered get to do another dance. So it was awesome that she got one. After that I had to go with my teacher to sort out my wig and make-up. I was ORANGE! Lmao. Then we went to the hall I was dancing in and I got my shoes on and we went to practice and tidy up some little bits to make it loook better. My teacher told me to make sure I was fully warmed up, so I just kept repeating the same stretches over and over. I don't really know how to warm up so I looked a right fool haha!
They called some numbers back stage and mine was one of them, so I went around and waited and went through my steps dancing them, I was soooooo nervous! It got closer and closer to my turn before I finally took to the stage. The lights were soo bright and I was like ahhh! This is it Claire, lets do this thing. I smiled the whole way through my dance and I was totally dead after the first step and a half and my thoughts were keep going Claire and I did. I walked off stage to my mom and nearly felll over because I'd given it my all. My teacher was really pleased and even got a text from another teacher that said 'well done Claire'. It apparently did look like I died on stage and I kept up the loudness and everything which kind of surprised me!
On the next round, I ended up on stage with the former 4 time world champion. I was like SHIT"! Then I said to myself 'Don't worry about her, just focus on yourself''. I tried to move across the stage loads and I knew this girl was behind me so I made sure I moved further. I hogged the front of the stage and beat her to both corners and I finished where she wanted to! Haha. I came offstage my teacher was impressed. She said I dominated the stage haha. I thought that was quite awesome.
I didn't make the recall, but tbh wasn't expecting one. I ended upo 44th out of 57, but one judge actually gave me 26th place which would have been a recall! EE! The other judges gave me 46th and 49th.
I have another Big competition in a few weeks and i hope I can qualify for the World Championships in Philadelphia. So we're putting in loads of workk to try and do it. I have a 2hr private lesson tomorrow, so I hope it goes well.
Its half term next week, so a week off school and also Unholy Allliance! I can't wait to see Trivium again and meet some Trivium Worlders again. Yay!
Kris - Thanks for listening to my moans this week. Good Luck with the Recordings. Can't wait to hear them! :)
Stephen - Glad Alton Towers was fun! Wish I could have come too! Coming soon to a club near you!! Going to be cool to meet you in the near future! Can't wait!! (Y)
Chris - Congrats on the Mod-ness! Roll on Slipknot!
Kelly/Sas - I hope I can come to London and see you 2! :)
Nicola - Have fun at Slipknot tonight. Don;t scream too much! Haha.
Harry - Have a good holiday. Have fun surfing! ^__^
Angus - Haven't heard from you recently. Hope your alright and having fun jamming and such!
Graham - Goood luck with the Story writing. I;m eager to hear more after the hint on your Blog!
Scott - The Shogun CDs are mineeeeeeeee, All mine! Muwhahaa.
Nik - You're cooooool! Loving your band loads!
Rowan - Can't wait for Unholy Alliance. Its going to be soo much fun!
Jess - The pix from your holiday were awesome. Glad you had fun!
+ Sorry if I've missed anyone out. I love you too! :)
Right. Ending this ramble now. :)
Take Care.
Claire x
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