Where has the time gone ????

My my, it has been along time since i last wrote on these pages, and i'm not sure if i am going to remember everything that has and is going on!

Well Christmas was fab and New Year was awesome as i was living it up in Amsterdam with my lover and some friends.

Started back at uni with heaps of dead lines and exams, but now it has mellowed out before the storm in the next few weeks when we will be given more deadlines and our final year exams start, ARRRGGGHHHH!! hehehe

The UPPDC classes have been back on and are going well, though have been turned up a notch as i really want to challenge my girls now it is the second year of the club running successfully. The AGM will be arriving soon so a new committee will be nominated and elected which is very exciting! I will be stepping down as chair because of uni commitment in my third year, but I will still be teaching the UPPDC classes.

Well as i am sure you are all well aware of Sam's new fame from the South Devon College performance. It is amazing that some people just can not open their minds to the concept that pole dancing is actually very physically demanding and not a display of muff grinding on the pole! The news was found to be all over the world making the Art of Dance the most talked about and published pole dance school ever! (In my eyes) I am very proud of Sam putting her foot down and not letting the college treat her like an idiot as she is anything but! Go girl!

The UPPDC had recently performed in the university SU in a showcase to raise money and awareness for Muscular Dystrophy, most of the committee performed and some of our members. It was such a successful and awesome night that we are in talks about doing another one maybe at the end of this academic year. We raised over £200 (we are waiting to hear back from Muscular Dystrophy campaign for the exact figures), so we are all very pleased by ourselves. We also have to thank the DJ's that volunteered for us and the BreakDance club who put there moves down to entertain so we could all have a break and not worry about our nerves. Chris filmed the whole event so i am slowly uploading them on to YouTube (it takes over 2 hours each time) under Sexinixi so you can have a little look and see how it went.

Sam sent me an email recently which British Isles Pole Dance Championships are advertising their pre auditions and competition through seedy strip clubs, this is not what the pole dance industry want to hear as everyone have been working so hard to make the art of pole dance have a great reputation, and this "championship" could just destroy all the hard work building pole dance up to be an athletic and professional sport. It just makes my blood boil how some people really just want to make money from something which should be treated with respect.

Right, i have to finish ranting as i am starving and i have just finished an essay so needed to let off some steam. Sam will be glad when she has seen i have written on here :-)

Thank you for reading, have a great weekend and take care of yourselves ;-D

xxx