And almost a month later...

...I am finally writing another post! (applause please) I have been feeling refreshed and more confident since my trip back home during Thanksgiving. Let me tell you, it was AMAZING! I literally ran through the airport to me parents and started to cry the second I hugged my daddy. It was one of the best feelings in the world. After the grand reunion we went to lunch at Sweet Tea and enjoyed some great food and caught up with each other. I also got to see my grandmother the day I got back along with my best friend, Sarah Traylor. Sarah and I had an emotional reunion in my front yard, which I'm sure the neighbors loved. I got to see most of "the crew" with a couple extras, all the day I got home. It was just wonderful!! I really love and miss my friends. Of course I got to see John too. I went to Auburn and he showed me around the campus. It was the first time for me to be in somewhat cold weather! I got to stay at Grant's place that night, so it was great to see him. It was weird because everything felt like normal again. After Thanksgiving day we traveled to the country part of Alabama to see the Nolan side of my family. The amount of joy and happiness and love that filled my Pappy's house was overwhelming in the best way possible. Not to mention the CRAZY amount of food that was consumed within two days. Not gonna lie, I am proud of myself for eating as much as I did. It was very hard to leave my Mommy and Daddy again, but it was comforting to know I would be back home in no time at all! Now Orlando Ballet is focusing on Nutcracker like crazy! I am doing four shows, so it shouldn't be too bad. My mommy is coming next week and then I go home on Dec 19. I am so excited! Looks like I am going to have a good bit of doctors appointments when I get home, but at least I will be home. Peace and blessing y'all, peace and blessings :)

Hello again

It's about time I updated this thing, isn't it? Well things have been going well for the most part. I am one lesson away from being done with both Government and Sociology! I am proud of myself for accomplishing that. Now I need to step up my game in English. It takes a lot longer to complete a lesson so I am slightly behind but it isn't a big deal. At least not now. We have officially started Nutcracker! I am learning two spots in Waltz of the Flowers, Snow, and Candy Cane. I love all the choreography although it is weird to be doing different dances now. I did Candy Cane for the first time last week and I thought my calves were going to fall off afterwards, but I enjoyed it very much! I have yet to do snow full out yet but I think it is going to be rough. On another note I am going to be home in less than a week now!!! Can I get a WHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?! Thank you. I just can not handle my own excitement about the subject. I want to hug my Daddy so tight and watch Judge Judy with him and see Grant for the first time in what seems like forever. I also want to see my Mommy of course cause she is the best in the whole wide world. But I can not forget all my friends too. Ahhhhh there is just so much goodness that is going to come from going home. Thanksgiving will be wonderful too because of seeing all my aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins. Okay I am totally rambling now. I will try and be more consistent with the blog again.....key word here is try. XOXO :D

So behind.

My bad. I totally forgot about this until Miss Traylor pointed it out to me via Facebook. A lot has happened the past few weeks, or however long it has been, but I am way too tired to do that now. So sleep and then stories possibly tomorrow. No promises though.... Sweet dreams of sugar plums (Nutcracker season has officially began) :D

Today. Oh man today.

Class, rehearsal, intensive-> private, another class.
Let me explain the third event in this time line, yeah? Well we have "intensives" once a week which is when a small group of people take an hour class to work on specific things. I am in one with 5 other girls and today all 5 of them had to go to rehearsal half way through and I was left for a private. It was really helpful! I could feel my turn out more than normal and I think it is really going to help my improvement. But not I can't stop shaking because I was working so hard and I have another class in about 15 minutes! I ate some M&M's, so bring it on ballet class! (just not too hard please....)

Craziness!

It has been awhile but all for good reason. I have been through a good bit the past week or so (to say the least). First of all my mom came last Thursday (not yesterday) on a little visit that turned out to be a little longer than expected. She was planning on coming to stay Thursday-Monday. Planning. Well Sunday she decided to stay until Tuesday and I could not have been more happy! Not gonna lie, I had an emotional break down just thinking about her leaving. Monday rolls around and I just wasn't feeling very good during my first class. Then it got worse during the break. Even worse in my next class. I was debating on whether or not to go home and got to the point of being miserable so decided it would be best to leave. My mom came and picked me and it went down hill from there. I got back to the house without getting sick but the rest of the night was not as lucky. I'll spare you the details. My mom cancelled her flight again because she didn't want to leave her baby so sick. And man was I sick. The next day I barely out got of bed and my diet consisted of soup, jello, and crackers. Yum yum. The next day, Wednesday, I started to feel like a human again and could eat real food without my stomach feeling too bad. I did not go to dance that day either because I didn't want to push too hard and have a relapse. My mommy rebooked her flight for Thursday and actually left that time. It was too hard to say good bye. Yes, I cried. Oh! Let me go back to Sunday. My aunt was throwing a friend a baby shower and my mom and I volunteered to go get the cake. Bad choice. We treated that cake like it was a priceless artifact and when we arrived at the house the top on fallen over....the gasps were intense when we took the top off and saw it had slide off into the side of the box. I thought my aunt and my mom were going to cry. We called Publix right away and they said to bring it in and they would fix it. Which they did! The second time we got it back in one piece and it was raved about to the shower. My mom and I spent the rest of the day together. Good times. I love my mommy very much. I am so excited about Thanksgiving because I get to see my whole family and all my friends! It will be magically for sure. Anyways, have a wonderful weekend :)

One thing to say for today.

In partnering class today I danced with one of the company guys and I have one thing to say about that: ten pirouettes. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and a 10. It was like my turning dreams but in real life. So very incredible.

Week Four

So I'm not going to lie, this week has been rough. It has been very hard to convince myself to do things the past few days. Ya know, simple things like: getting out of bed, making my hair look decent, putting on make up, and doing school work at night. The latter is the very hardest! Good news though, I have completed three Sociology lessons (six chapters), 2 government lessons (four chapters), and one english lesson (4 essays). I am currently work on lesson 3 for government and going to start my next english lesson either tonight for tomorrow. I am trying so hard not to stress myself out about school but sometimes it just does not work. I have had to sit out of the very end of two of my classes this week. Monday I had a tummy ache and couldn't finish my second ballet class or do the variations class and today I didn't jump in my first ballet class because my knee is feeling funky. It doesn't hurt that bad but kinda feels like it is twisted and off track. I'm not sure how to explain it but I'm afraid to push it too much because it might injure it. I have also been applying to different colleges, fun fun. I have been loving stalking everyone from Hoover on facebook this week because it is homecoming week! Finally the class of 2012 has some school spirit! I was tempted to wear a toga to class today, but resisted. I miss everyone dearly and pray for everyone every day. If anyone is ever board shoot me a text, tweet, phone call, skype, anything! :)

Goal until May

I have created a goal for myself: I will find some way to enjoy some part of my day. It could from eating a big bowl of ice cream, taking a little shopping trip, taking a longer shower, dancing without thinking about being perfect or anything else really! I think ice cream will be used the most for enjoyment. Also, I am going to stop killing myself with school. Yes, I am going to work very hard to complete it fully but I am not going to stress myself out with it. Ya know why? Because I don't have to! It is time to enjoy this experience and not keep on letting my mind take over with thinking too much. I get that from my daddy. Which by the way, I miss my daddy very much. In fact I miss everyone very much! Thanksgiving break is going to be filled with so many friends and family. It is going to be wonderful! I'm more excited about that than the food and that is saying something. For real though. Well, one more class for today so I should go claim a spot at the barre and start stretching or whatnot. Hope everyone has had a fabulous week and it will continue in that way!

Happy Monday Off!

Can I just say it has been amazing to sleep in the past two days? Okay, it was been amazing to sleep in the past two nights! I needed that sleep more than I knew. I have spent most of today outside reading in my english book and doing sociology. As of right now I have a 100 in all my classes! Yeah, it's only about a week since I started but that is still an accomplishment. I have also started to do college applications, which haven't been as bad as expected. The family is all good. I got some awesome news yesterday: John is coming to visit in October :D I can not wait for that! I miss everyone back home so so much already. I look at everyone's senior year facebook albums all the time. I do miss the football games. I hope everyone is having a great year so far and having tons of fun! Tomorrow starts week three and for some reason I have a feeling it is going to be a killer week. We shall see though!

It's been a while

I have been so consumed with dancing all day and trying to get school work done that there has been no time to do almost anything else! It has been kinda stressful. I am finally making some progress on school work. It just feels like it is taking me forever and a day to finish anything. Remember how I needed to get new pointe shoes? Well well well. I went to the store on Monday and spent about an hour trying on shoes and seeing what worked and what didn't. I found a pair that worked (at the time) and bought those expensive suckers. I sewed them that night in order to wear them the next day. I wore them in pointe on Tuesday and did not like them no bit! I couldn't balance or turn or anything! Talia reassured me that is just took some time to adjust to them and they would get better over time. She was right, for the most part. Wednesday I wore them in rehearsals and they felt very good! I was turning well and could actually dance without looking like a flopping fish again! I was starting to think I could like these new shoes until today. Today they were totally and completely dead. For those of you who don't know what that means, it just means that all the support was gone. My foot was bending away to far when I was on pointe and it started to scare me. I'm very upset that they cost so much money and then lasted three days! I called the store, believe me. Maybe it was just a bad pair. Maybe I need another new kind. Only time will tell but it better start talking real soon! Money does not grow on trees. So yeah, that's my dilemma. Classes are still going well and I am still working on butt off everyday. It makes me so hungry at night. I just can't stop eating! I got some really good blackberry pomegranate yogurt today from the store. It was my dessert after a breakfast sandwich. Then I ate an apple. Then some watermelon. Then some triscuits. I guess most of that is healthy stuff, right? Okay I'm just rambling on so everyone have a good Thursday night or whatever day/time you read this!
(I'm not going to proof read this one so ignore any mistakes. K, thanks)

Week one: complete

I feel like they should hand out t-shirts at this point saying "I survived week one at OBS!" All in all this has been a very successful week. I realized though that I have jumped from taking 4 or 5 ballet classes a week to taking 11 in a week. That's over twice as many! How I am still standing is a mystery. After class today my friend Talia and I went to get sushi as a reward and had a great time. We tried to go back to her apartment and lay out by the pool but it started to rain which put a damper on things (get it, cause it rained?). Instead we just relaxed in her apartment, read some magazines, painted our toe/finger nails, and went for a walk. It feels kinda odd to have almost a full day out of the studio and have a real full day off tomorrow. I got one of my three text books last night so I can finally start school! I haven't decided if that is a good or bad thing yet, but it must be done. Now I have the rest of the night to myself. What to do, what to do.....oh and GO BUCS :D

Almost done with week one

I was just starting to write a post last night when I was given some bad news. My grandfather, Pappy, found out yesterday that his cancer has come back again. This is his third time to have cancer and I would appreciate so very much if everyone would be praying for him, my family, and family friends. Well, the past two days have been very tiresome and full of very hard work. Today we had Ms. Marsh twice, which was intense! She gives one tough class. She doesn't let anything slide but that I just what I need. We had rehearsals for Stars and Stripes again today ,and I got to actually do it for the first time! Mr. Munoz had been choreographing the piece on six people and today he asked for another group to give it a go. The first run through was rough but the second one was much better. Right after that I went to a rehearsal for a piece Mr. Hill did last year and is resetting with more people. I have been understudying a girl that was originally in the piece, but today her foot was hurt so I jumped in and took her place. Thank goodness I had been paying attention and knew what to do! I messed up some arms here and there though. I just have to make it through another full day tomorrow and 9am-1pm on Saturday, then it will be time for some needed rest. Maybe I'll even be able to go out with some people. We shall see! Time for a food update: Last night I helped with dinner! We had chicken, pasta (which I cooked), and green beans. Tonight we had kabobs, sweet potatoes, and broccoli. Then I ate some good ole ice cream! I just can't resist it and deserve it after dancing all day. That's my reasoning and I'm sticking to it! That's pretty much it. Just a lot of dancing mixed in with some sleep, food, and baby Makayla. I really should look into a job as a professional baby bouncer. I'm going to get some ripped arms and legs from holding/bouncing Makayla. But I don't mind doing it one bit because she is so stinking cute! Anyways, please pray for my Pappy and that I will survive nine more months at this level of dancing. XOXO

Day numba 2

This is gonna be short because I am pooped! I had a total of 7.5 hours of class/rehearsal today. Let me break it down for you: 1.5 ballet class+1rehearsal+1.5rehearsal+1.5ballet class+1 pointe calss+ 1 jazz class = 7.5 hours total. Overall it was a good day besides when it came to turning. It was not at all a good turning day. But hey, maybe tomorrow will be! My energy meter is close to E, so it is time to go to bed super early and feel all better tomorrow! Hope all is well with anyone who reads this :D

First day blogness

FIRST DAY IS OVER WITH! Can I get a whooooo?! WHOOOOO! Okay, now I will stop with the annoying all caps and get serious (ha). My first class was at 11:30, which I did not mind one bit. It was awesome to see everyone I had become friends with over the summer and to see some new faces too. Everyone looked refreshed and ready to get back to the grind of it. I know I was! I had ballet with Mr. Munoz who I love dearly. He is French and hilarious! Then I had a rather long break that will normally be filled with school work, but I still don't have my text books yet. It's weird because I kinda feel like I have already graduated and shouldn't be taking more classes. Maybe I'll just get them done really fast and be done with high school. After the break we had modern (honestly I was not looking forward to modern at all) and it turned out to be almost enjoyable. Almost. Then I had a ballet class with Mr. Munoz again which was also a very fun class. Finally I had variations class that was taught by a company member who is super sweet and even more helpful. We did a variation form Don Q and I loved it! It was very sassy and my style. After a long day of hard work I came home and got a yummy dinner of steak, green beans, and a biscuit. It was delicious! Then I had a yogurt parfait thingy with some pineapple because I am obsessed with pineapple. I think that is about it! This post was rather boring but factual. All in all, I had fun dancing today and have been missing that for a while now. I can only pray that will continue through out the year.
Side note: please ignore any grammar errors. Thanks

And we made it!

I am officially in Orlando! Whoo hooo! I was a lazy bum and slept almost the entire way. For real. Last night we stayed at my grandparents house and got to see a good bit of our family and eat lots and lots of food (which came to bite me in the butt later). Taco soup, tacos, nachos, and an amazing pound cake with whip cream icing that had pineapples and oranges in it. So yummy! It was all delicious but did not agree with my tummy this morning when it all tried to come back and see the light of day again. Thankfully it did not succeed. Enough with that nastiness. On the way here I kept a small record of funny names of streets, towns, and such: Ty Ty, Georgia, Ty Ty Nursery, Ty Ty Station, Lower Ty Ty Street, Old Coffee Road, Slappey Blvd. Also, my mama and I saw the new 2012 VW Bug! It looked kinda weird, but hey, whatever floats your boat. Now we are hanging around the house with my Aunt and Uncle playing with my baby cousin. I love moments like this. Hope everyone has a fun and safe Friday!

PS: does anyone actually read this?

The World of Ballet Shoes

I just now noticed (the day I am leaving of course. Some things never change.) that I need leather ballet shoes when all I have is canvas. Thank  goodness for the internet! I began looking on Discount Dance, thinking there wouldn't be a very large selection. Wrong. There are 20 different types of women's leather split sole ballet shoes. Yes, I took time and counted only the women's split sole leather ballet shoes. Cause I can. Some have arch support, some have special lining, some have heel cushions, some have canvas arches, some have durable thread, some have antibacterial lining, some absorb sweat, some run small, some run larger, and list goes on and on. How in the heck do I pick? Oh the dilemmas of being a dancer..... how about some old fashion eenie meenie miney moe to solve the problem? Does anyone know what "eenie meenie miney moe" even means or where it came from? If so, I'd love to know!

First Blog (how cliche....)

Okay, so I am a newbie at this so no judging allowed. I decided today that I would keep a blog in order to keep all my friends and family updated on Orlando. Well, I am still in Hoover but figured it would be best to give this shindig a go before actually getting to Orlando. I am done packing and basically ready to go! I will arrive at my new home Friday late in the afternoon (just in time for a yummy dinner). I will probably be talking a lot about food because my aunt and uncle always have something yummy for dinner! Now I have a good arena to share what my taste buds experience nightly. Just get ready. I think enough for my first blog. Nighty night!