A flash of lightning .... London Lightning

Where does the time go?  It is December already and almost 2014 to boot!  In the dance world we are gearing up to dance in the half time show at the London Lightning game on December 8^th.  When I say ‘we’ I truly mean that as I am also dancing along aside my son and 28 other dancers from our studio Élan Dance Arts.  We are the largest group ever to perform during the half time show at a London Lightning game.  During the first practice my son kindly (haha) referred to me as an elder.  

A little background on why we dance.  We sell tickets for $15 each and $5 from each ticket goes back to our competitive team.  Kian sold 15 tickets so that means $75 goes back to him to help cover his entry fees to the 5 competitions.  Yes, that money is due on Friday and will hit me just over $1K eeks.  Nice timing too right before Christmas :(

The London Lightning Dance Team is actually run by the owner of our studio Shawna Kwan and features a few of our dancers and a couple of teachers too!

If you are going to the game Sunday have a look and see if you can spot me.  My son is dancing right behind me … totally a family show :)

This morning I handed in my final assignment for my Digicomm 3209F class.  I feel like a giant weight has been lifted from my shoulders.  As I mentioned before, I switched my online class for next term to an in class night course.  Life is so busy these days.  As a final blog for my course, our assigned reading was on virtual worlds which as it happens is the topic of my class next session.  I used to play a game called the SIMS where you could go online in your ‘world’ and interact with other ‘worlds’ all over the real world as part of the game.  I enjoyed playing it as a step outside of, at the time, my world as a university student.  I have heard about virtual worlds often since then but haven’t really interacted much with them myself.  My kids play a game called Animal Jam where they can meet up with other kids (or adults pretending to be kids) and you have an animal avatar you can create and accessorize.  You then play games with your ‘friends’ and learn more about the animals you are playing.  The kids like it because it is fun, I enjoy that they are testing their reading skills and learning about animals they likely wouldn’t find in the real world.  My son also plays something called Minecraft which I admit I don’t know much about but he creates worlds to play in and then interacts with others.  I would assume this is like a virtual world but I admit I haven’t really paid as much attention to this one as it doesn’t seem very educational ;)