The man whom you say is "unreasonable" just bought me health supplements today, he's "not nice", but he gave me many dance apparel, took me in as a disciple under his pre-professional programme, and let me pay my dance fees in installments.

The man whom you think is "strict" was trained in much harsher conditions, suffered much more pain that you will ever suffer just so that he could create the environment where everyone is happy with.

To you he's that unreasonable instructor that always demands perfection, you may not understand him and why he keeps saying he suffered a lot. To me he's the kid where his parents divorced when he was just 2, he worked from 13 and started dancing at 16, started teaching dance at 18. He's the man who says things like, "Don't wait for the right moment to do something, if I waited for the right moment to do professional dancing, you wouldn't see me here today." He's the man who asks about my family, who teaches me so many things, who has to speak like a teacher teaching secondary school kids as most of his students are adults with the mindset of secondary school kids. He's the man who wanted to give me a position in a dance troupe he just started as he knows my abilities, but thought that that would be "unfair" as I do not have this official status required to join the dance troupe, and so he decided to give me further training in the pre-professional programme.

Don't say that I'm submissive and meek and "have no opinion" because I do whatever my instructor asks of me. I analyze the reason behind his every move and I know he never wanted to hurt me.

Don't say that my teacher is biased and only likes me as he praises me in class often, he praises me because I work hard in classes, I attend every class, I apply the corrections given. He likes you as a student, but you aren't worthy of praise, you didn't put in as much effort.

Don't debate about how you wanted to be trained. Who do you think you are, saying that you don't want to count the beats while you danced? Your sense of rhythm is not good, you keep dancing ahead of time, the method which you suggested have no impact on your performance. How could you debate on how you wanted to be trained? Does it hurt when you speak? Then why can't you count? It's easy to do it, and only then you'll learn. Do you have any skill in this dance genre? Then why are you trying to alter the curriculum. Do you have talent? No, you don't have any.

Then why are you trying to debate on how you are supposed to be trained? Do you have a health condition that causes you to be hurt when you count while you danced? If you want to improve in your dance skills, you should be trained in the aspects you are weak in, and you refused to be trained? How can you improve if you don't do things outside your comfort zone?

How could you guys ever think of something bizarre, something like, "I don't want to do things the old-fashioned way." (okay I can't translate the exact words she said, so I'll use 'old fashioned'.) Do you know how good you guys can be if you just stop thinking of those bad things about discipline and be trained by my instructor? I benefited and you can benefit but you just don't want to benefit.

And don't wait for me when I'm wearing my tap shoes in between lessons, just go and practice. I didn't go to dance class to make friends, I came here to train to be a professional. I'll like a friend, but if you want to be my friend, don't wait for me, don't need to praise me, just do what you should do, be attentive in lessons like you always do, practice after class, talk to me about dance, and I'll be happy. I know that I'm different, I'm young and you can't relate, people might talk behind my back. It hurts but I take it as a sign that I'm improving at a rate much faster than them and I'll rather not have any friends than to go down to the level of these people and associate with them. I want you to be good, but you aren't giving yourself any chances.