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 8th. 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 ;)
