So today I got to work with Andy again. I find him super easy to work with – really “go with the flow” and easy going. I’m not always that way so it’s cool that I can get that energy from him and I TRY to give it back.
So yeah, we started with the mirror exercise again at the beginning of class. I kind of felt like “WHY?” because, well, we did that yesterday!!! But the second time around it was a little easier, like we were able to jump into it a little quicker because we kind of knew what to expect.
But this time it felt like we were mirroring each other’s emotions! I had had a bit of a hard day – my classes are a tiny bit harder than AMA’s, and I think they expect waaaaaaay more of us than my other teacher’s expected – so I may have been in a little bit of a funk when we walked into the room. But Andy and I started the exercise and it was like he picked up on this during the exercise! And while it looked like his face reflected commiseration back on me, it also looked like he was trying to tell me he had a hard day as well.
I REALLY wanted to hug him at the end but I didn’t. I wish I hadn’t held back.
Then we did some weird “clay molding” exercise. I didn’t like that one as much. You stand up there and your partner “moves you” into different positions. Then they finish, like you’re a “sculpture of art,” and you have to hold that position as other “artists” walk around and look at you. It makes you really self conscious!
When I was the “artist” I put Andy into a position to make him look like a pitcher on a baseball mound, about to win the game! When I walked around the room, other kids were made to look like they were picking their noses or doing other gross things. One even looked like he was on the toilet! Everyone was laughing at that, but I’m not sure I got the point of the exercise.
Tomorrow we have dance. I’m really excited! I haven’t danced in a few years. But we don’t have to have ballet shoes and jazz shoes and tap shoes like the dance department students do. I think we might be dancing barefoot. I don’t know, we’ll see.
Off to sleep to have a good tomorrow!
Love,
Aubrey
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