If you think choreographing 15 kids from age range of 5-11 is easy, think again. And kids in Myanmar are much more non-outgoing and shyer than those from international schools.
Call it habit but it seems like my English has gone a bit too formal lately. I was talking big words to the kids like ‘complimentary’, ‘biased’ and ‘appreciate’. I don’t know.. those words seem so easy at the moment but I swear when I was their age, I did not know of these words. So, I had to keep reminding myself that I am talking to kids with age range of 5-10, who do not have “English” as their mother language.
The kids were great but it was so hard to choreograph them after actually choreographing myself or people who were so much better than me before. If I gave them easy moves, I feel stupid and pretty uncool and if I gave them hard moves, I felt like they would lose interest cos it looks too hard. So, it was pretty difficult to handle kids’ choreography.
It doesn’t help that there was one kid, who was 10 and he was a bit of a hyper one. There’s always someone who’s ‘special’ among any kids group. Like Alfafa in Little Rascals and that booger picking kid from ‘The Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ or ElMira from Looney Toons, there’s ALWAYS one kid who is ‘special’. This kid, who I would like to nickname QuikEMart , is special. He’s obedient and quite adorable but he gets totally hyper and he would get a bit bipolar at times. Now, like any other parents in denial of their kids’ sanity, his parents refuse to do ANYTHING that would boost his sanity up. So, yeah, I ended up putting him in another group where the dance moves will be breezy. I love the kids but god, kids choreography is such hard job!
P.S. Happy birthday to my one and only gay daughter hahahaha. Love ya, NOL !
Call it habit but it seems like my English has gone a bit too formal lately. I was talking big words to the kids like ‘complimentary’, ‘biased’ and ‘appreciate’. I don’t know.. those words seem so easy at the moment but I swear when I was their age, I did not know of these words. So, I had to keep reminding myself that I am talking to kids with age range of 5-10, who do not have “English” as their mother language.
The kids were great but it was so hard to choreograph them after actually choreographing myself or people who were so much better than me before. If I gave them easy moves, I feel stupid and pretty uncool and if I gave them hard moves, I felt like they would lose interest cos it looks too hard. So, it was pretty difficult to handle kids’ choreography.
It doesn’t help that there was one kid, who was 10 and he was a bit of a hyper one. There’s always someone who’s ‘special’ among any kids group. Like Alfafa in Little Rascals and that booger picking kid from ‘The Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ or ElMira from Looney Toons, there’s ALWAYS one kid who is ‘special’. This kid, who I would like to nickname QuikEMart , is special. He’s obedient and quite adorable but he gets totally hyper and he would get a bit bipolar at times. Now, like any other parents in denial of their kids’ sanity, his parents refuse to do ANYTHING that would boost his sanity up. So, yeah, I ended up putting him in another group where the dance moves will be breezy. I love the kids but god, kids choreography is such hard job!
P.S. Happy birthday to my one and only gay daughter hahahaha. Love ya, NOL !
Listening to: Muse – Supermassive black hole
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