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I was grasping for familiarity, and my thoughts kept echoing your name.

at farrington on tuesday, we were doing across the floors.  not much different from our other practice days.  but on this particular day, syd, one of my students with autism, came to practice, and he had a different skills trainer than he usually does.  she was the FIRST one of his skills trainers to ever get up and try to help him dance with us.  like normally syd holds his own, which is awesome.  i've had him since he was in 6th grade, so i know how he operates, and i know that he doesn't necessarily care about getting everything right, he just likes coming to practice and having fun with the rest of us.  cheeeee!  but anyway, back to the skills trainer.  it was clear that she had dance training and experience before because she knew all of the french terms i was talking about.  and she was able to demonstrate to syd the things that he needed to know.  not only that, she was wearing skinny jeans and boots, and she was still dancing!  not many skills trainers would get up and dance with syd, let alone get up and dance with him IN SKINNY JEANS AND BOOTS.  i had mad respect for her.  anyway, when we were done with class, we were packing up and everything, and she pulled me on the side and asked me where i danced.  and i told her i used to dance for 24-7 DanceForce when i was younger, and then i was a dancer for Kamehameha.  and she actually told me that i was really good.  don't get me wrong, i have confidence as a dancer.  but more as a hip hop dancer.  i didn't really get that many compliments before on my ability to dance jazz and other technique related styles of dance.  but that meant a lot to me.  it really did.