I remembered being a teenager preparing to go to university and my family who is a typical Chinese - Thai family would like to see me pursuing the doctor career. I myself was sort of knowing that I like art but had never taken any drawing classes but the thing I knew for sure at that time that I liked was to dance. However, what I didn't know is dance would be with me this far.....
I was a nerdy girl (still am) with thick glasses (+9.50) who tried to be fashionable and liked to dance. This combination doesn't seem like going together. I never believed my innermost self. Then, it all started when I accidentally got accepted to the Architectural School at Chulalongkorn University where I found it was ok to be different.
My second calling began when I planned to continue my study in USA. I sneaked out from my English classes that I attended preparing to go abroad to take Ballroom lessons without telling my parents. It was about 3 months and I became more focus on the dance classes than the English classes. Right away, I knew... that was I would love to do but still I didn't believe it.
New York City gave me opportunities to be exposed to multi-cultural activities and USA was where I was taught to believe the unbelievable. I can dream and with hard work and being truthful to myself, those dream could be true. I never believe I could go to the world's best university, and I did. Being the creative environment that confirmed me that I should dare to dream and find the way to make it real.
One afternoon, I walked on Avenue of Americas (aka. 6th Avenue) and remembered looking up to many tall office buildings and thought it would be so nice to work in one of these offices. A year later, I worked at the most prestigious and biggest Architectural design office in the world and the office was right there at the Rockefeller Plaza. At one point I felt it was not real.
My love of dance continued and it is dance where I learn a pharse which it becomes part of my life 'DO NOT GIVE UP'. It is hard when you start learning how to dance when you are not that young. I am not flexible and coordinated but I love movement and music. It takes me years of doing that and being disciplined so I would go to dance classes every day after work. What keep me doing that? I started building a relationship with the community of the dance classes I attended. Those were people with the same passion and we had a lot of fun. There were people at different ages with different backgrounds and I think this is the beauty of America: DIVERSITY.
After many years of doing it and trying it again and again, I could say at least I am good enough in few dance styles. I still like my practices and am happy every time I teach my students at the Universities. I still do believe the unbelievable because it challenges me to live my life and one day after a long hard work, I hope it would become true.
Keep dancing, keep living everyone :)
I was a nerdy girl (still am) with thick glasses (+9.50) who tried to be fashionable and liked to dance. This combination doesn't seem like going together. I never believed my innermost self. Then, it all started when I accidentally got accepted to the Architectural School at Chulalongkorn University where I found it was ok to be different.
My second calling began when I planned to continue my study in USA. I sneaked out from my English classes that I attended preparing to go abroad to take Ballroom lessons without telling my parents. It was about 3 months and I became more focus on the dance classes than the English classes. Right away, I knew... that was I would love to do but still I didn't believe it.
New York City gave me opportunities to be exposed to multi-cultural activities and USA was where I was taught to believe the unbelievable. I can dream and with hard work and being truthful to myself, those dream could be true. I never believe I could go to the world's best university, and I did. Being the creative environment that confirmed me that I should dare to dream and find the way to make it real.
One afternoon, I walked on Avenue of Americas (aka. 6th Avenue) and remembered looking up to many tall office buildings and thought it would be so nice to work in one of these offices. A year later, I worked at the most prestigious and biggest Architectural design office in the world and the office was right there at the Rockefeller Plaza. At one point I felt it was not real.
My love of dance continued and it is dance where I learn a pharse which it becomes part of my life 'DO NOT GIVE UP'. It is hard when you start learning how to dance when you are not that young. I am not flexible and coordinated but I love movement and music. It takes me years of doing that and being disciplined so I would go to dance classes every day after work. What keep me doing that? I started building a relationship with the community of the dance classes I attended. Those were people with the same passion and we had a lot of fun. There were people at different ages with different backgrounds and I think this is the beauty of America: DIVERSITY.
After many years of doing it and trying it again and again, I could say at least I am good enough in few dance styles. I still like my practices and am happy every time I teach my students at the Universities. I still do believe the unbelievable because it challenges me to live my life and one day after a long hard work, I hope it would become true.
Keep dancing, keep living everyone :)
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