Teaching

What a day! I taught two amazing classes today, the kind of class that you don't want to end because the energy is still high and when it does, you want to do it all over again. Is it normal to feel this passion when teaching? I often wonder because I think so many people don't, especially those who are where I aspire to be, those who have already set up their schools or own businesses that focus on educating people about dance. It can be a lucrative business but why kill the passion? MONEY. We all have to make a living but I've worked for to many people who no longer see dance as a passion and a way of teaching others (mainly children) how to express themselves, but a way of making quick money. Can you see the problem? Time will tell if I end up killing my passion for the love of money, i'm seriously hoping not.
Now for my real issue..the classes I taught today were great but I stuck with the "norm."I taught a genre that the kids knew, Street. If I'm going to introduce a African-Caribbean aspect to my classes, I need a figure out a way to make it appealing. How do I make something appealing when all that's known is what's seen in the videos? Even though for many of the children I teach, it's their culture. I'm looking forward to exploring my options.

Creation of the Flickr!

 Whilst trying to get my head around the "technical stuff," I thought id upload some of my recent photos to Flickr. Reading other blogs I came to realize that this is a useful tool and would be a good way of letting people see some of my professional shots recently taken for the dance organisation ADAD. Please feel free to leave comments as I intend to get more professional shots taken and would be grateful for feedback. Looking at various profiles, I'm thinking I'm going to need some Professional head shots taken in the very near future.
 When setting up my account, although it was very much a stress free process, I thought it was a bit strange that you had to create a Yahoo account first and as a result I  now have one to many email addresses.
Check them out:http://www.flickr.com/people/aliciaa3dance/

Blogging!

So here I am,with my first blog entry, actually quite funny when I think about it as I see myself as quite a computer illiterate person. Easy to set up, but what about the rest? So many questions,am I doing it right? How do I put this there and why does everyone else's look so much better?
But I wont dwell on it, I think I will use my lack of knowledge as an advantage. Dig into the depths of Blogspot to discover just what I can do. Wish me luck x