Asian-Pacific Festival Hula

This is the Hula from the Heratige festival.

Learning to Follow

So I've been learning to salsa dance! It's a lot of fun but what I realized last night was that I don't know how to follow. I've known since I started learning to salsa that I don't know how to follow in a dance, mainly becuase I'm used to dancing by myself. I'm used to doing things by myself and having control maybe not over what happones but over what I do and where I go. This is not the case with salsa (if you're not the lead) nor is it the case with life. Even if you are leading other people in life you're always subject to someone else's will. You have no control over what's going to happon. I'm getting much better at following the lead in salsa, but following the lead in life is a different story. See I like doing things by myself and having control over everything, but my MAN up above is trying to teach me otherwise. My whole life has been a series of unfortunate events that have forced me to rely on otherpeople, and on HIM, but as meny people know I am stubborn. Then minnute things get better I start taking over and then the cycle startes again. I have no clue why it hs taken me casi 20 years and approx 5 weeks of salsa lessons but people are strange creatures. Sometimes it takes them a while to learn things even when the answers are right in front of them. So I challange you to learn from my 20+ years of experiene. Stop trying to be in control. Just live, love, and learn to follow. Some salsa lessons wouldn't hurt either. :)
Much love ,
Kesha

Almost Too Much to Bear

I know it's been awhile since I've posted anything but so much has happened. As you know I am probably one of the busiest people alive (I'd argue that I am busier that the great Winston Churchill who had time to take a daily afternoon nap!). This is nothing that I want to brag about. It has gotten me into some trouble (well not trouble, but has made life slightly harder than it needed to be). Let me explain. My days are packed, my weeks are packed, my weekends...are packed. So what do I do when I get sick? Nothing really. I may occasionally blow off small things like reading for class but I can't seem to let go of some of my activities. This has come back not to bite me in the butt but to PUNCH ME IN THE FACE!!!! And I mean hard! But I think my business is a coping mechanism for my various and assorted (they really are various and very assorted) issues. Me being so busy that I just don't deal with it. I don't even stop to think or even ponder how any particular series of unfortunate events (and this year, it's been more than a mini series) affects ME. My Mind. My Body. My Spirit. My Soul. My Being. ME. Since the beginning of my junior year (which will end in approximately one month AMEN!!) I have lost a friend in the War on Terror, injured myself (not severely, no worries), lost a company mate to suicide, lost a fellow cadet to a freak water accident, lost three other graduates from the class of 2005, and found out that my grandfather (who was supposed to pin on my bars next year) is on his death bed (and I have to sit and wait for him to die). Not to mention this whole Virginia Tech shooting! So now I'm sick. I don't know what I have but I feel like I've been hit by a truck (one of those big ones you see on the interstate carrying all kinds of crap) that went into reverse and preceded to run over my already broken body. I have no clue what this illness is, other than exhaustion. Every part of my body is in some sort of pain and all I can think about is sleep. I walked around all day feeling like someone as slowly cutting my stomach from my body and every one of my muscles hurt.
Ok, so what’s the point?
I'm not trying to complain about my various and assorted ailments. I would just like you to know that everything has an affect on you and you should consider that affect and adjust you life accordingly. If that means letting something go for a few weeks, saying a few extra prayers at night, taking time for yourself on the weekends, DO IT! I have been so busy that I still have not mourned my friends' death in September and each day that becomes harder and harder. I know that the only reason I have been able to carry this incredible burden is because I have had a tremendous amount of help. I know that I will never experience something that I cannot handle, I will never receive a task that I cannot accomplish, and I will never be asked to do something impossible. So I wish you all blessings, peace, health, prosperity, and wisdom. Especially the wisdom to know when to let things go. Much Love (and I do mean love),
Kesha

Spring Break

It was a lot of fun,surprising.... I went on tour with the Glee Club (we did 10 concerts in 10 days WOW), Lillian and I did a duet I think at 6 of the performances. We went to D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. I made some very good friends on this trip and learned a lot about myself and other people. First Lillian and I became closer, and we found out that we have similar personality types ( I will talk about this bit in another post), I also found out that Adam and I have similar personality types and I got to know him a little better also (in a friendship kind way, just wanted to clear that up). I got to know Emily and Matt pretty well, they're a cool couple, and realized that Mike likes to touch people, a lot (not in a repast type of way but in a extra friendly kind way) and it got a bit annoying. I had some pretty cool sponsors...My sponsor in D.C. works in the Pentagon and is totally cool. He went to culinary school in California and cooked for us....some of the best food I've ever had... and then after our concert in the...get this...Library of Congress, he took us out to dinner at this snazzy place where, once again the food was amazing. The other sponsors were nice but not as cool as him. I did have a retired Air Force chick Major. She was pretty cool, she use to mix her own drinks at parties, I thought that was pretty hotttt. But other then that everyone else was just the average ex-cadet or old person. Actually (you may think I'm racist after this next comment, but I'm not... if you are non-white then you might understand, if you are white...I'm sorry, it's a colored folk's thing...) I was starting to get really tired of old white people. They were really starting to get on my nerves. It got to the point where whenever one would talk to me I would just smile and nod. If I didn't have to say anything I would just sit and be quiet. I don't know what it was but I was very annoyed. There was this one lady that was taking Emily and me to the beach in Florida and she was just going on and on about how the only black people in Florida were from islands like Jamaica and how they have great manners and they are soooo nice and how 60% of her friends are black and 40% of her friends are white and how when she was sick only her black friends sent her cards....AND THEN SHE HAD THE NERVE TO SAY...."OH, my Kesha, I forgot you were bl...in the car, I'm so embarrassed. You're not suppose to say things like that in mixed company."....WHO SAYS THAT!!!!!! If she weren't like 90 years old I would have wanted to punch her in the face...but instead I just smiled, like a good little negro....GOODNESS. Well I have to check out now. I might write late tonight or early tomorrow because I have something fun to write about. Also I have found a website that will let me make slideshows out of my photo albums so I am doing that and soon I will have them posted. Much love Kesha:)

OMGOODNESS....

Round about 2:30 today I wanted to shoot myself in the face....but I made it though, this week is pretty much done. I farted out my American Politics paper (which really sucks but I won't let that ruin my break). Now I just have to get through math, physics, a military science test, and then i'm done for the next ten days....yes....did you feel that.....we'll do it again.....*deep long sigh*...yes....*deeper longer sigh*....the only think I have to think about now is the Glee Club Spring Break Tour (which is what i'm doing over Spring Break). Let's see...well I don't really remember what I wrote about in the last post so I won't comment on that...Well I guess that's all I have to say other then my West Point Blog will be up soon ( I have found a site that will let me make photo albums so i'll just to that with my pics *I can post more of them that way* and transform the My Pics blog into the WP Blog) is that I have still not written my song yet, alghouth I have been thinking about it so it hasen't left me yet. Maybe I'll get to it on Friday.

I'm Fealing Alright

Today is the first day in a long time that I feel good....I can honestly say that it was a good day and agree with myself. Today we had training and I think that I would have enjoyed it if i didn't feel like it was -10billion degrees outside. We did some really cool stuff that I like doing but not in the cold, but anyways....After that I went up to the Beauty Salon and got my hair done for the first time since June. I was at the salon from 1 to 5:45 but I didn't even care that it took that long because it felt soooooo good. I was so relaxed and I was happy. I don't know why, I just randomly decided to get my hair done. I don't know why... well there is kind of this guy but i'm totally not thinking of him so I don't that was the driving force but it might have been a reason that i used to convince myself. And this kind of guy well if nothing happens this is all your hearing of him so don't even ask....so there. Well i'm outy. P.S. I'm almost done with the photo album so i'll be moving all of my pics to there and turning the "My Pics" blog into the West Ponit Project one. ok bye for now....

ok so here's what's been on my mind....

...I haven't written my song yet but I have been thinking alot about it. I really feel like now that I want to help bring some resolution to the problems that I have been having at West Point. In response to this feeling I will be startinga new blog intitled "The Difference Between Men and Women: The Observations of a Female Cadet". I have encountered many problems at West Point and almost left becasue of my frustrations. Now I have decided that I will attempt to make a change and try and fix some of these problems. I don't know how this is going to work into my very busy schedule as I have recently taken on two new activities, but i'm excited. We'll see what happens. I guess you might be wondering what my new activities are, well... you might not even know wha the old ones are but I'll stick with the new ones. I have started taking hula lessons and will be dancing in the Pacific Islander's Heritage Festival. That is a BLAST!!! I am having sooo much fun with that and it's a good workout. The second thing I am doing is....pledging. Yes, I am pledging into a serority. Sigma Lambda Gamma. I'm excited. My line sisters are awsome. We'll see how that turns out. Hopefully I won't loose my mind with all of the stuff that I am doing, but you know whatever does't kill you only seriously wounds you... or something like that. Well I'm checking out for now. Stay tuned for my new blog. I will probably do some rearranging of this blog to accomidate that. I might just move my photo album to My Space well see if that's more Kesha Photo Friendly. But whatever just check the links and there'll probably be a post explaining the changes, if anyone cares.