Springville Fun

This last week David and I had a great time in Springville, UT with some friends who visited from out of town. I'm talking about Marta and Mark Chapman and Aura Ene. We met at brother and sister Smart's home, had dinner together, played games took pictures and just had old plain fun talking and joking. Marta and Aura are from Romania and I've known them for more than 7 years now. They are really nice and fun people to be around. I hope you'll enjoy some pictures of our adventure.

Folk Dance

One of the things David and I love is folk dancing. We both started folk dance at BYU and made it to different teams. David was even on the back-up team (or SPAC) this year!

Anyway, like I said, we love dancing so we decided to be counselors for the folk dance camp this year. That was a great thing and we had a lot of fun with the kids. I had a group of 6 girls between 10 and 13 and David had a group of 6 boys between 9 and 18. It was a lot of fun to take care of the kids and to help them learn the dances and enjoy the camp. We did everything together. David had to teach the boys a couple dances and that was a good experience for him. We learned Irish dances, African, Hawaiian and Polynesian dances and also a mixture of dances from all over the world including my and David's most favorite, Israeli folk dances.

Now, that the camp is over and we both got back to our jobs (we both work in computer labs on campus), we decided that we wanted some folk dance in our life so, I became a TA for the international folk dance class and David TA-s for the clogging class. We both have a lot of fun TA-ing even if it's hard sometimes to teach dances. It's a very rewarding activity too because we get to learn from the teachers how we can become better teachers and dancers and in the same time we help students get better and learn the dances faster.

Because I want to get better at dancing, I decided to take an Irish Dance class at the Power Academy of Irish Dance. It's a class where I can learn proper technique and become stronger and more true to the Irish dance style. I like the class because it gives me the chance to practice and learn new things and it's also fun and entertaining. All the students are friendly and the teacher, Aubrey, is really nice and a great dancer.

I love being a TA and I love folk dance. Oh, I forgot to mention this: It's because of folk dance that I met David. We were in a dance class together when we first met last year. But that's going to be another story...

Hello world!

Well, I'm new to this but I'm excited to share a bit of our life with you.

I'm Daliana, a senior at Brigham Young University, Utah. I'm a French Studies major and I have three minors: World Dance, Computers and the Humanities (CHum) and TESOL (Teaching English as a second language). I'll probably graduate in a year and might go to grad school to become a certified TESOL teacher. I love to dance, to travel and also to have fun. I love foreign languages like French and Spanish and other cultures too.

On March 3, 2007 I married David Johansen. He is a student at BYU as well, studying Exercise Science and planning to go to Med School. He loves Mac Computers, folk dance (clogging and Israeli in particular) and watching movies. He also plays computer games sometimes.

So, this is our little life in a nut shell. We love it. We live in Provo for now but would love to travel and live around the world. I was born in Bucharest, Romania and came to the United States on December 31st, 2002 to study at BYU and David, who was born in Provo, Utah has lived in Germany, Korea and Japan and visited many other countries. He's also been a missionary in the Philippines and speaks a language called Visayan (Cebuano).