So the Fukui festival was canceled because of flooding, which meant no dancing (and public humiliation) for me. But then, miracle of miracles, they rescheduled the dancing part of the festival. I was bit nervous having missed almost all of the practices in August, but it turned out very well. I was really worried while I was dancing but then I looked up and the new teacher from Colorado (Sean) was smiling and waving, then I looked the other direction and Anthony and Maiko were waving. If there are at least a few friendly faces in an audience it makes it easier to pretend the rest of the audience doesn't exist. It was a lot of fun! I have another performance in October (and I am going to all of the practices this time).

So Sean just got to Fukui yesterday and I immediately dragged him off to watch me dance. He is really nice and I think we are going to get along well (you always worry a bit before you meet someone. I remember thinking that Gina was going to be a crazy axe-weilding psycho and although a bit crazy at times I never once saw an axe in our dorm room). So I have a good feeling about this. Although I am very sad to see John leaving. We have been very close friends for 9 months and now he is moving to the other side of the country (which is considerably closer than the other side of the world i.e. England).

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