Jumping the Shinkansen

I had my first dancing lesson on friday.
It was tough.

First of all: I don't mind dancing. I actually think it's fun, although I hate feeling like an ungraceful stork when I'm learning how to do it with people who already know how. I love music and rhythm.

It's just that most of the people in my dancing class are also in the dancing club. This means that they train dancing several times a week, they've probably been dancing for a while, and they're darn good at it. They learn choreographies much faster than I do. And they go from 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 (which I can keep up with) to 1,2,3,4 go go go!! much too fast for me. So Francesco and I end up standing in the back feeling stupid while everybody else is dancing as if they've never done anything else. I feel like I'm slowing them down too, because they have to show me slowly several times (and I still can't do it at their pace. No chance). They're not pressuring me or anything - it's just that I feel bad because I want to keep up with them, but can't.

Quote Dazey: "You're jumping a train. They're asking you to jump the bullet train."

Another issue will be the clubs.
I thought about joining the kyudo club (archery), but heard from my homeroom teacher that the kyudo teacher doesn't have much time to teach. Which means that about 70% of the point's gone. There's very few members (only one guy we've seen training there) which means not so many friends. Another 20% gone. The remaining 10% would be that there's not so much training, so you don't have to come every day. Still, it looks like I won't be joining this club if it continues this way. But I'm not 100% sure yet. That one guy can teach me for all I care! XD I just want to learn something.

The other thing I thought of joining is the kendo club. It looked kind of fun, and I heard that they don't train so often. (My HR teacher thought otherwise, but she said she'd check so I'll know for sure.) Still, I know the other exchange student quit because he didn't get along with the kendo teacher, who's very strickt and noisy (according to Madoka). Madoka also told me that a friend of hers started in the kendo club the first year, but quit when she started the second for the same reasons. So I don't know. There's not much else I think I can do. There's several I'd be interested in, but I'm not good enough to join, and they train really hard. *sigh* I really want to join a club and make friends there too. What's Japanese high schools without the clubs? I want to experience that too!

Well, I'll keep trying my best! Ganbarimasu! Oo~! \(>o<)/☆


Location: Japan!
Mood: :cip:
Watching: "Charmed" dubbed to Japanese! It's hilarious! XD (I'm imitating the bad guy and the dubbing to my host mother's amusement.) :P
Eating: rice in a bowl filled with hot green tea (o-cha)!
Drinking: water and o-cha.