Jamming it all in: Part 11

I woke up on the final day of the module with every part of my body hurting. I had initially thought of going into Britomart early to go through my second track, but even getting out of bed was a mission. Heck, every single movement I made was an absolute struggle, and my head was absolutely throbbing; kinda like being kicked in the face by a horse.

I listened to my track over and over, though had to force myself to concentrate - I found myself very easily drifting off.

I hadn't been to the doctor at this stage, and didn't know the extent of the injury. My track involved a lot of upper body undulation, and that probably was not what was the best form of activity for it. When it came time to present, my focus wasn't on others on the floor, it was barely on the music, and it certainly wasn't on my coaching. I was trying very hard to not cry out every time I performed the move which is effectively a body roll.

You can see the move demonstrated in the routine here at 0:14, and explained at 0:31 in this clip.

Yeah okay it probably doesn't look like much from afar, but I can guarantee you that everyone on that stage is getting some serious ripple action on during that move.

I may not have cried out every time I had to do the move, but T could tell that it hurt.

Throughout the day, I kept convincing myself that anything I felt wasn't because of the crash, but because of the general soreness from the module. Everyone in that room was hurting, so I felt embarrassed everytime T looked at me with concern and said, "Raina are you okay?"

I of course, tried to overcompensate leading into our final presentations and asked if I could teach a warmup. T said I could teach the first track which I presented as a warmup before doing my second track later on. Just because I'm insane like that.

When it came to giving us our outcome, T told everyone in the group straight away that we'd passed. I let out an audible sigh of relief. I didn't expect the news to come so quickly, especially after how long Sarah took to tell me last time.

It took a while to sink in. I couldn't have pictured that just passing the initial module for Jam would have taken that much time, and that much effort. I also couldn't picture how much continued time and effort was ahead of me. After all I wasn't out of the woods yet. I still needed to certify.