i used to jump around and then when commercial went on on the tv i would start running around

and dancing. it was really fun. and then my mom took me to dance classes on the weekend.

i thought it was like just the best thing in the world.

when we first moved in our new dorm,everyone one was so happy. Hello.

At shen yun we have really big dorm, big classroom.. It's really big. Everything. anybody, anybody.

so the younger performers have to take academic. classes for half of the day and then for the other half we use it fro dancing.

i used to think i'm pretty good at dancing. Cause my teachers was always saying oh i listen very

good. she can maneuver all the moves. and she's really flexible. and accordinated, oh

she's a good dancer. i was like oh ok i was a pretty good dancer. and then i came here

and then there like oh no you have a lot of work to do.

when i first came to shenyun i think the hardest for me was performing like ancient tale. this story was tongu there's

. i had to be this little girl and i felt she's really happy and she's

going out to play with her grandpa. but then suddenly this nine sun appear and then it

suddenly become very hot. basically i had to point at the sun and go like oh no what

do we do. i had to show people that it was really hot and i couldn't do it because i

couldn't act and i didn't feel it. i didn't feel like it was really hot. i thought oh

i'm going to do this move and that move. every time we had rehearsal the choreographer was

always telling me that you're not using your heart. you're not showing me that you're actually

feeling this. i was like. wait. cause i thought oh i'm pretty good you know, my techniques

and everything and all my movements they're in the right place AND EVERYTHING and she

said wait you don't look like you're burning. you don't look like you're using your heart

to dance. you have to connect it with your body. and you have to really feel that you're

in that same situation as those characters that you're going to play. i learn that as

a performer you can't feel proud of yourself. But you can't look down on yourself either.

then to overcome hardship your heart has to be in the right place. out of this year's

dances, the biggest challenge for me was our handkerchief dance. i have to throw my handkerchief

out and do a front walk over and catch it. there's one time and then we have a rehearsal

and it took me so many times to try to catch it. i'm so scared that it would fall and i

guess it wasn't a very good attitude and that's why it affected me cause it's all connected

from my movement to what i'm thinking inside and after i said that well handkerchief are

pretty happy dance why be so scared of it and then after i became more determined i

never dropped when we went to asia

the most important part of our show is working together like you see at some stages and then

we're dancing together. that takes a lot of teamwork. But we also like behind the scene

in the change room or backstage anywhere we all working together sometimes it's dark when

you come off stage and people help you hold the flashlight in so you can see where you're

going sometimes i'm helping other people and sometimes they're helping me. even it was

just a little thing like passing a prop to someone or straightening out their sleeves

or their riven i guess this how i learn to think for other people and not just for myself.

and i think the coolest part of our being in shen yun is going on tour because who get

this opportunity. i've been here for three years and for three tours we've been to around

seventy five cities in almost twenty countries around the world. and we perform at least

four hundred shows. sometimes it's really tiring when we perform but then after i have

to really take this out to go play and see like all this different places and it's really

exciting we can take a lot of pictures you can buy a lot of food and gifts you can go

shopping you can also like learning different cultures and meeting different people like

i make a lot of friends