When vocation tests were taken in High School (I guess there are a lot of kids who don't know what they want to do with their lives), the two high scores that came up were "ballet dancer" and "truck driver". I originally started ballet when I was 7 and danced til I was 12. Then my last 2 or 3 years in High School I realized I need to get serious again if I wanted to make a career out of dance. So, I took classes in the morning and in the evening when I got home from school. Somehow I convinced my school & mom that I needed to do this til 12 noon, then go to school from 1-3. Was I special or what???
After a semester of that schedule, I got very sick from mono and everything came to a halt for almost 2 months. I barely graduated, as I missed so much school, but did get straight A's my last semester. At 18 I got my first dog and dance was history. I just didn't want to leave my little puppy for hours every day & night to train. As much as I miss dancing and would love to take classes again, even now, the animals consume me. And, I am happy.
While I was dancing, I got my teacher to choreograph a tap dance to the B side Elton John song "Whenever You're Ready, We'll Go Steady Again". That, I auditioned for the Gong Show. I honestly don't remember what happened after that, if I was on the show or not. But, I didn't get "gonged" and I remember the audition off of Hollywood Blvd. (with my mom) like it happened a year ago. It was sweet.
As far as being a truck driver? Big trucks don't intimate me, and driving across country appeals to me. I think about it every day. Where I would like to go? I know doing it as a living probably would lose it's attraction quickly.
So that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!
