Yeah I really like the blue leotard I have right now because it does fun things in the back and the color looks really good one me. And I think our captain has the same skirt but in pink and she wore it to Madison and it looks really pretty and flirty and spinny on the dance floor. The purple one comes in black but I don't think it looks as good in black as it does in purple and I really like purple, too

Yeah it is :/ One of my friends on the team told me that if we don't really know it, when we're supposed to dance slow fox to just not go on the dance floor because I'd rather not dance it than go out on the floor and make a complete idiot out of ourselves because we can't remember any of the choreography because it was taught to us in like 25 minutes.

Exactly. Like I'd be fine dancing waltz, tango, and slow fox even if they were shaky and needed work but I still knew the choreography. I feel like with what our captain told me to do, everything's going to really rushed and my partner and I are just going to have a fuckton of choreo threw right in our face and then we'll get on the dance floor and it'll just suck and fall apart, and that's not how I want my first competition of the year to go (and let's not mention the fact that I've never been actually taught the latin dances, I've just picked up the basic from watching people and we just guess what steps are allowed in latin that we also dance in rhythm). I asked my partner on Monday if he knew the difference between american and international cha cha besides bent knew in american and straight knee in international and he didn't know, he was just guessing what moves were allowed. And we had good instruction last year, like we had a fabulous coach who taught us good technique, but the problem was that it wasn't reinforced at practice. The captains last year would rarely go around and correct people's technique, it's like they assumed that we would just fix it ourselves, except that's not how it works in dance no matter what style it is.

I DONT FUCKING KNOW THATS MOSTLY WHY IM SO ANGRY LIKE SINCE WHEN DO YOU NEED APPROVAL ITS NOT EVEN LIKE WE JUST DONT WANT TO DANCE ITS THAT WE DONT FUCKING KNOW IT and like I told my friend on the team who's having her own issues with the team and she basically said the same thing too and it's like, I don't want to learn 3 dances in a total of 90 minutes because they're not going to be good and we might not even remember them because we learn them so quickly and then to be expected to go to a competition and dance it well in bronze is just really overwhelming and I don't want to compete something if I don't feel confident enough in the dance. If I'm going into a competition thinking "oh fuck I don't know how to dance this" I don't want to compete it. On top of the fact that tonight I heard a couple of returners commenting that most of the second years (so everyone in my newcomer class) don't have the technique to be dancing bronze. Like thanks I'm sure you meant in just an observational way but still. It's not our fucking fault if we don't have the technique. It's the captain and the team's goddamn fault for not fucking teaching us this technique last year when it should have been taught.

It's just been like building up with everything that happened last year and I thought this year was going to be better because I have a new partner and it generally has except my partner and I are playing major catch up because we're supposed to be dancing bronze American and International and I've never actually learned the newcomer syllabus for International and we've been trying to balance learning our new American bronze routines with learning the standard dances. And my partner and I filled out the registration form for the competition in 2 weeks and we made a note on the form that said to not register us for slow fox because we haven't learned it yet but we got registered for it anyway so I emailed the person in charge of registration and asked her to take it off our list of dances and she said she couldn't because we didn't get approval from the captain (except I was never aware that we had to get approval to NOT dance a dance???) and so I talked to the captain to explain the situation and I told her that we only have 2 weeks, and Patrick and I still have to learn international waltz and tango (because we're dancing bronze and I don't even know the newcomer syllabus) and we only have one lesson a week so you know, waltz one week and tango the next week right? And I figured our captain would see the logic in that, but she just told me to have our coach split our lesson in half on Sunday and do half waltz and half tango and the week after that, to work on slow fox half the time and the other half work more on tango and waltz. Did I mention that our lessons are only 45 minutes long? So basically I have a total of 90 minutes to learn 3 basically new dances and be able to dance them at a competition. At the bronze level. And after I talked to the captain I was just so frustrated and angry and stressed and overwhelmed that all I could do was just go back to my room and cry for a good 30 minutes. And as soon as I start thinking about it, I want to cry again. It's honestly gotten to the point where I wonder if it's even worth it anymore. And if I hadn't already put so much money into it, I would most likely quit. But I love the dancing and competing part, it's just the team stuff like this and everything from last year that is just getting too much.

Dooooo it omg they're so good. and the 4th one is coming out august 27th too

I highly recommend reading them if you like fantasy

If you don't watch DW: Favorite kind of accent??