days off

i love days off... heard bout granny today tho... sux but other then that had a day of rest and im ready for tomarrow... sry if its short today... dont feel like writing

friday... finnaly

today was fun... more singing and dancing... but tomarrow were going rafting down the arkansas river and in my photos i posted a bunch of pics of the rockies and my host families car after a small amount of the hail fell on it and when the leaves were stripped off of the trees onto it

today in my life

it was a fun day... we had speakers that came in and talked about leadership then i went into vocals then worked on my dance... also we talked about sex in the cast and in the communitys... apparently its frowned opon... who would have thought? also its not good to get wasted and do drugs... not suprising. but despite the news it was a good day for me... easy dances and songs all day...it was good.

news

today was fun. we went into the mountains and explored a few towns up there. also we read the uwp website and it turns out that theres a show on july 26 in mesa colorado... whos in it...? because we are not ready yet and i dont know if we will be... its not far off... but ya...

holy crap

very very tired today... yesterday we missed our bus because we wanted to get somthing to eat but then we tried to get a bus later and they were done running to our station. i tried to call our host mom the first time and i got some random lady... after i was done talking to her i got the number right and called our host mom and it turned out the next bus to go near where we wanted to go was at 925... needless to say... i hate buses. but after all that i had a nice read before bed and when i looked at the clock it was 1 in the morning... today we did coreography for the remainder of the day... if im not on at ten there youll understand why... im beat... but all in all its fun, so...

-Dylan

other cultures

迪兰佛桑

for all you crackers that reads di-lan fo-som
which as it turns out is my name in chinese... who would have guessed but its pretty cool lookin...
today went good and there was alot of dancing... we did cast fitness and we did zoomba which is likk salsa dancing... it was very... feminine... and i have recently learned that all the workouts are based on womens fitness because of all the women in the program... not really fair but who cares right? o well i guess thats the price you pay for being surounded by women all day... worth it.

- 迪兰 (Dylan)

modules...

we went through a bunch of stations today and they tested a few things. vocals was first thing in the morning... you start in a group of 4 then you sing this little snippet off of the wall with the group a few times. then you move to singing it in front of the group by yourself... the judge told me it was a rock song and i was singing it to "pretty" so after a few years of not singing i took it as a compliment... then he went on to say to sing it more "rocky" and less "pretty" it was an interesting morning. after that we went into costume where they told me that i needed black shirts so that wasnt so bad. then came tech... boring but it was just stuff like "dont trip on these cords" and "dont pour water on the power splitting box" and simple stuff like that. after tech we went to speaking. i feel like this was my part of the day as opposed to the rest. we went in and said these speaches to our group and they needed to come from the heart... or at least look like they did... i think i fake pretty well... hopefully. then we went to the thing i had been fearing the most, dance. it was so funny. they wanted us to do this crazy hiphop routine then a ballroom dance. then they wanted us to do a jazz music dance then others but we messed it up so badly that the group of staff just laughed and we started just doing our own... kind of. it was funny but i dont think lead dancing is for me. o well! but we ended up not going to the movies last night because tickets were sold out!!! hopefully we will be able to see journey when they play in the city this weekend. it should be fun so ya... see ya

-Dylan

1st singing day

started the chorous today... its like a 5 part harmony and its very hard... my voice hurts but ill live. also we are going to a drivein theater in denver which should be fun because i havnt been to one in many years but if our host brother dosnt come back soon we wont go. their showing the office and even tho the movies just ok at least its on a 90 foot screen. missing home..... just kidding... its fun here i think ill stay.

lst day before dancing begins...

me and my host brother went to the denver museum of art today and saw some pretty cool art. it was weird because he said that they dont have american art in china but we have so much of the people of asias art that its rediculouse. i think its because we stold it from them during ww2 and other conflicts and just never gave it back... spoils of war??? o well whats done is done i guess...

first free day

woke up at like 330 today... it was a good sleep though. then we went with our host dad ike to a shopping center much like pioneer park mixed with the fair. it was fun and i got a few pictures of the mountain.

Meet and Greet

winding down off of a long day today... i cant remember how many times i awnsered my name and what state i was from. met a kid named marek from the check republic today hes cool... im probly gonna hang with him for a while. im rooming with a kid named erin. but in his home city of bejing china he is known as liangchang. my host family seems nice enough they have good food and a dry place to sleep.dont miss home yet but ill keep you all updated.

-Dylan

first blog

its the night before the first of many trips and i hope that i see some cool stuff on this trip... to my parents, whom i told about this blog when i was allready leaving ... love you guys... to my dear friend tim...PHONE CHECK!!!