Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Funny Memories
Last night on American Idol, David Archuleta sang Neil Diamond's "Coming to America." I have to admit that it brought back an embarrassing, but hilarious memory that I thought I would share with you. When I was in 6th grade we had to do a "creative project." This project could be basically anything that we wanted to do. For some strange reason I thought it would be a great idea to do a dance. I enlisted the help of my friend Megan and we began choreographing a dance to "Coming to America." I don't remember why we chose that particular song, or really to do a dance in the first place. I didn't have a lot of dancing experience. I had taken a couple community summer Jazz dance classes, and one folk dance class at BYU, and apparently I thought that made me qualified to do a dance project. Needless to say it was a complete mess. We wore blue leotards with red, white and blue striped skirts. We were going to use pom poms, and I honestly don't remember if we ended up using them or not. I had to perform this dance numerous times for classmates, teachers, and parents. I thankfully don't have any pictures to post, so for those of you that were not there to witness this dance, you won't ever completely appreciate how hilarious this was. I don't remember what anyone else did for their creative projects, so I am hoping that no one remembers mine. But for me, whenever I hear Neil Diamond singing, I can't help but laugh at myself. What was I thinking??!!
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Hold up, you never told me this. This is information that needs to be disclosed while dating. Now I'll never be elected to office.
Not only do I vividly remember your dance, I'm quite certain that a VHS tape still exists and secretly collects dust in some dark corner of the IDEAS classroom archives.
My favorite memory triggered by your post is our foray into folk dancing. We were definitely the best twelve-year old Mexican hat dancers north of the Rio Grande. !Vive la baila!
My Creative Project that year was a multi-generational family cookbook. Proud Danes and Sweds the country over contributed such culinary delights as aebleskiver. Tasty!
I thought it was funny that Archuleta wore a prison-striped shirt whilst singing that song... ;)
Ha! Ha! Ha! That's really funny. I know what you'll be for Halloween this year. . .
No, I remember that every girl in my entire school danced to some Paula Abdul song for the talent show, and in honor of Idol, I went through every song on Itunes by her to try to find which one it was. No luck. But, I too have a 6th grade Idol memory. Though I wasn't the one dancing, fortunately.
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