The moment we found out

The moment we found out

I have just recently graduated from Anniesland College as a professional Dance Artist this year and I am extremely fortunate enough to be taking part in the Delhi Handover in October this year.

I first heard about the Handover through my senior lecturer at college. She was contacted by Culture and Sport Glasgow about the opportunity.

At first there was only one allocated place and so one of my other colleagues from college was fortunately offered the spot as a cast member.

A few colleagues and I also applied through our lecturer but it wasn't guaranteed that we would be going to India and for the time being we were possible reserves.

Nevertheless, I was still beaming with excitement and feeling extremely lucky just to have gotten this far.

Orientation was nothing like I expected. To be honest, I wasn't too sure what to expect but it definitely opened my eyes to the enormous scale of the project. From that moment on, I was sooo excited for those going, especially my classmate, and I wished deep inside that I would perhaps get to go, but never in a million years did I think that it would actually happen!

When I received my email of confirmation, that I would be going to India as a cast member, I was ecstatic! Orientation was a fun 2 days which definitely brought the situation to life and made the experience so much more realistic!

It turned out to be a great team bonding experience, meeting lots of new people from lots of different backgrounds.

It included different workshops such as a taster into the dance performance with Nathan and his team, a costume fitting and demonstrations of what we will be wearing, as well as presentations from the 2014 team leaders and project managers that are making this opportunity happen.

I feel so privileged to be given this amazing opportunity and to be part of a project this huge is such an awesome experience for me.

Being a dancer, this opportunity is one in a million but to be representing Scotland in India, as well as doing something that I have a great passion for, is just so overwhelming.

I really couldn't have wished for anything better than this amazing opportunity.

I am majorly excited and cannot wait until Bootcamp now, although I reckon it will be tough and probably the hardest I've ever had to work in my life! But nevertheless it is going to be worth every second of the blood, sweat and tears.