College Girl Blog!

Me and a fellow classmate Kaitlyn partnered up to deliver this podcast to help you out with your hair concerns as well as educate you on some things you probably didn’t know.

All throughout high school I have seen people showing off their foreign exchange students from all around the world. I have always wanted to experience hosting a foreign student but I knew my parents would never approve they already had to take care of me and my three other siblings. But lucky for Audriana she got to experience it.

The first clip is her story that I gathered through an Interview I had with her, without my voice.

The Second Clip is the same as the first but with music that fades in through the beginning, and fades out near the end.

This final Clip is a Scripted story I created based on the interview I had with Audriana. This Story contains two sounds bites from that interview.

Who Are The Crimson Dancers?

Well, they are a group of girls that all attend Park University they all work hard during the week attending practices to bring you your halftime shows during the big games. They have practice in the labor hall gym on Mondays and Wednesday from 6pm-7:30pm. On Tuesday they have a morning practice at 7:00am -7:45am to work on techniques, exercises. “The team also does lyrical and some gymnastics on our Tuesday morning practices, it all depends on the day” say’s Demetria Bryers who is currently on the dance team.

About The Team

The team does a combination of hip-hop, Jazz, and Pom. They are also involved in the school by doing fun raisers and participating in school events like Fright Night. They had a booth for games for the kids and help set up inside so that the night could be enjoyable for all since it rained outside. The crimson dancers also sold boo grams to help fund their squad because they don’t get money funded directly from the school so anything they want to do they have to do themselves.

Along with that being said since the dance team dose not have their own private practice space, they have to share the gym with the rest of the school. This then cuts into the time the boys uses the gym to play basketball they cant play while the dancers stretch or practice cause someone could get hurt so the team has to tell them to leave. So for other people they also have to wait till practice is over or just come back the next day. Sometimes the gym will even be closed or off limits and the girls would have to find another place to practice, for example they had to practice in the underground once. 

How The Dance Team Came About

The dance team was organized and founded by Abby Jeans. The two captains are Nique Brown, and Gabby Bretz. These two work hard together to create the dance performances for the girls. Nique recently choreographed the hip-hop routine to the song Level Up by Ciara. Gabby recently choreographed the jazz routine by the song Hand Clap by Fitz and the Tantrums. Abby Jeans choreographs the Pom routine, like the recent one that was done at the boys and girls basketball halftime game featuring the song Heaven by DJ Sammy featuring  Yanou and Do. Here is a slide show of the girls and what they have done.

“You have to practice outside of just coming to dance practice every day. Because just coming to practice isn’t going to get the job done.” “You have to practice alone and by yourself, so that you know the routine and don’t have to rely or count on the people in front of you or beside you.” “It also builds confidence when you know the routine and makes you feel better about being at practice versus when you come to practice not really know the routine and haven’t been practicing, that can be a little difficult and sometimes stressful cause you find yourself being lost a little more,” Says dance member Victoria Smith.

“Being captain of the dance team can be tough at times because going through the dance routines over and over and seeing the girls struggle is a little frustrating at times but at the end of the day when we all come together and know the dance it just makes me so happy,” “We all also keep in touch by using group me” says Nique Brown. 

Playing The Role

There are two different parts of the team one part of the team is the performance team and the other side of the team is the general team. The general members do not perform but they still come to practice and work on their dancing skills they are not required to show up at every practice. The performance team on the other hand practice is mandatory and once you get 3 strikes your out! So yeah they take dancing seriously.

Being on the dace team means also representing the school in a good and positive way. That means not saying hateful things about the school on their social media pages or just being rude or disrespectful in any way. The dance team has now been growing for 4 years strong. Take a look at their performance during the boys basketball halftime game.

 

Born and Raised. Daniel Rodriguez was born in Kansas City, on February 11th, 1997. She actually grew up here in Kansas City with her parents and her two older siblings who are nine years and five years older than her and has lived here every day since.

A Perfect day. When Daniel was younger consist of her waking up in the morning and her parents making breakfast, then her mom would take her to school. When she would come home from school she would help her mom cook, she says it’s always fun to cook with her mom. She also enjoyed hanging out with her cousins when they would come over, and then at night, she would stay up late watching cartoons.

Growing up her parents gave her a lot of tough love, they were strict and they still are strict, but they were very loving, and since was the youngest, she got spoiled. She says her two older sisters were mean, and always left her out. They would only include her if they if she did things for them like bring them food or bring them a cup of water they called it “The servant game” She says spending time with her sisters made her happy even though she was the servant. Daniels best memory as a child was taking family trips to Mexico. The bad part about growing up in was getting into real physical violent fights with her sisters.

As a child, Daniel described herself as a quiet and happy child. Daniel Says “She never felt like she was wronged in any way.” She also states that people have said she was a well-behaved kid. She was the only one out of the three that didn’t cause problems. She has never even gotten into trouble, the worst thing she’s done was put Nair in the conditioner bottle that her sister used, and there were no consequences because no one knew and she didn’t tell anyone until she got older.

Daniel has three nicknames “Danny” “Nanni” and “Potato.” The name potato comes from the origin of couch potato she says, “My sister was arguing with my dad about how I don’t do anything and she called me couch potato and it kinda just stuck.” “Now they call me potato.”

When she got older she thought she would be very bubbly, more forward with people, and be more friendly with people where she could just go up to people and talk to them, she says laughing “That’s not how I turned out at all” She also expressed her dream as kid she wanted to be singer and an actress and as she got older she felt like she didn’t have the talent for it. To find out more information about Daniela or even contact her she can be reached at her website.

Fun Fact: When Daniela was younger she use to have a bowl cut this link shows examples of some bowl cuts hairstyles.