Nationals

The start of the second semester of my freshman year was a hectic one. We got one week of normal school, and the next we were off to Orlando to compete at UDA Nationals. The bus ride took us 6 hours, but we finally made it to the resort in Disney. On a bus with the Golden Girls and the FSU cheerleaders was definitely a tiring one, but the minute we got to the hotel, we put our stuff down and went outside to find a place to practice our routines. Problem, lots of rain. We ended up practicing and going over corrections in the small but available space next to the elevators until about 1 am. The next day was semi finals. All nervous but ready to work my team mentally prepared themselves for the first round. Meanwhile, I and the other non dancer of the weekend Annie were in charge of spirit with all of our signs and spear shaped noise makers ready to watch our team on stage. Although we witnesses some minor mistakes, we made it to finals the next day. That night was just like the one before, practicing until we couldn’t anymore. Although we were more focused on the Jazz dance, Hip Hop was also a very strong point of ours, but the judges didn’t seem to have liked it as much as we thought. Semi finals ranked us 6th in Jazz and 12th in Hip Hop. That was not ok with us. The final day came and we killed our routines. I couldn’t not have been happier for my team. Through all the tears and time practicing, we placed 3rd in Jazz and ended up jumping 6 spots in Hip Hop ranking 6th. The next day we were awarded with a day at Disney. It couldn’t have been a more perfect weekend.