my last multicultural.

Friday, December 05, 2008 was my last multicultural show. My second and my last. I was very sad afterwards. I had spent Oct-Dec practicing, perfecting my dances. To have all that effort, that work in one night was very depressing. But I was so happy afterwards, so happy. The song above will remind me of multicultural, especially the night show. It was the song for PIC's hula dance. It really reminded me how this is the last multicultural for me.

This year I am Asian Club secretary. Last year I just participated in the Asian Club couple dance and I choreographed the Korean fan dance with Michelle. This year, I choreographed the Korean fan dance again. However this year was even harder. Last year, I only had eight girls in my dance and it was a less than 2 minute dance, but still we tried hard and did well. This year we had a 2:38 song and 22 GIRLS!! It was freaking crazy. Originally I wanted probably 16 girls. I was worried I would not get enough girls but over 24 girls signed up. But in the end, I got 22 girls who performed. It was so stressful, so hectic, and crazy. Coming up with choregraphy for 22 girls throughout a whole song was crazy. I think I've watched every single Korean fan dance video on youtube to for inspiration. I didn't want to use the typical Korean fan moves so we even came up with our own. Luckily I have creative friends. Tiffany, Mimi, Michelle, Maggie, and Hanh helped out a lot. But in the end, I was responsible for everything. And last year we didnt have time for costumes because we had to do the dance in a quick two weeks but this year I WANTED TO HAVE COSTUMES. I stressed so much for costumes. We bought material, got the jackets, sashes, and bows made and bought skirts. The jackets had to be sewn and it was stressful to try and get people to get them sewn. We bought skirts online and they didnt come in until the DAY BEFORE the performance (I had guesstimate the girls size too).

The night before dress rehersal (on a thursday, the day before the actual performance), I realized I was short THREE JACKETS so I had to go to my friend's house in the middle of the night and sew three jackets and we had no idea how to make it because our aunts' had done it so we had to figure it out from the jacket samples. It was crazy. But in the end, the costumes came through.

Luckily during rehersals our dances came out good, but my brother's ninja dance was horrible unorganized so the night before the performance, I stayed at school until 7:30 pm to make sure they had it down and it would look good. I did not want all my hard work to go down the drain if my brother's ninja dance made our club look horrible. I prayed so hard when they performed, but they pulled through. They really did their job.

The day before the performance, I had a breakdown at school. It was horrible. I have never cried before at school but I did that day. And the night before (when i had to make those jackets) I had a mini breakdown at home too. The stress was too much. But I felt happy after it so it is good to break down once in awhile.

Fashion Show;
Korean, Thai/Lao, Vietnamese, Hmong


Asian Club repping.


Asian Club Picture


My senior girls;
Michelle, Adrienne, Maggie, Tiffany, Me, Hanh the Blowfish


Most of my fan girls


Our last multicultural :(


Me and my family

And now to see our beautiful performances.
I mixed ALL the songs for the three performances







I am proud, I really am. All the tears, the stress, the anger, etc, was really worth it. Even if I failed two tests that week, it was worth it in the end.

If anyone wants us to perform for them even if it is on a random street, WE WILL!!

--ck.