𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧. [𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐮]

5 | miss joo

heeseung ~

it's friday. finally.

the weekends are my favourite parts of the week. i've made it a daily ritual to kickstart my weekend with an afternoon iced vanilla latte. i often use my weekends staying up late filming and choreographing dance covers so i can upload them to my youtube channel. 

one of the best things about being apart of the dance faculty is the limitless creative freedom i'm given (so long as i continue to manage my academics successfully). aside from the three to four theory based courses i take, i'm given a choice of two or three large projects where i must challenge my artistry and in ways i best see fit. 

originally, my platform as a video content creator started sometime around the end of 8th grade. when i first started out, all the videos i made were about video games. i'd film video game reactions, livestream sessions, collaborations, reviews, q&a sessions with my subscribers and as i continued to upload more content, my following naturally took flight. it was only around the beginning of senior year which was when i began to take dancing more seriously and consider pursuing a career in the arts. hence from that day forward, i had started to upload more dance covers & self-choreographed pieces.

ever since i have been able to recall, i have been dancing. the most fond memory i have of dance began when my mother enrolled me for lessons at my first studio. i've always been more quiet and reserved in personality so my mother thought it would be good way to build my confidence. i hated the idea of it so much when i first started out but slowly dancing grew on me. much to her amazement, she was right. to this day, dancing is where i seek refuge. and i owe it all to one person: my first teacher.

when i was around 5 years old, one of my mother's childhood best friends had recently retired, finished her last tour as a ballerina and opened a dance studio in our neighbourhood. in the studio, i'd address her as miss joo and would frequently attend all the classes she taught. jazz, contemporary, ballet, hip-hop, lyrical... i trained in all genres and her studio is where i built my foundations in dancing. she is the one who still inspires me to this day to continue dancing as i practically grew up in her studio and that place truly became my second home. to me, dancing is the one thing i can always turn to and a complex language i have learnt to understand & comprehend. 

sadly, as i was heading to the studio one day, i noticed the place was boarded up and closed for good. when i ran home, my mom had told me that miss joo had suddenly left to live abroad for reasons she never clearly stated. 

before i was about to enter university, i received a mysterious letter from an address in russia. miss joo had mailed a handwritten letter to my doorstep and it was addressed to me. to this day, i still keep all the contents of that letter with me. 

within the letter, she told me how proud she was of me and that i was one of her most talented students. she had also asked me to keep a promise. that promise was to never stop or forget about dance. i wrote back to her and vowed that i'd keep her promise alive. miss joo was my role model growing up and she still is now. 

wherever in the world she is now, i hope she knows that i've been doing well and that i'm still dancing. hopefully one day, i can meet face to face with her and express my gratitude in person. 

SIKEEEEEE. so i decided to add some nice heeseung back story in this chapter. all i'm going to say is that it's an important part of the story and future chapters will build upon this one :)) the starbucks encounter is the next one heh dw