Play and Assiting

To start off, the play went really well. There were a lot of people there, especially for opening night. The audience laughed aeverything and I could hear my dad's booming laughter, which helped. They made me feel that all our hard work had paid off. I could call it a show from tonight's performance, but alas we have 3 more to go. I hope they will go as well as tonght did, with the great audience we had to go along with it.

As I was checking my email, I noticed that I had recieved one from my boss (otherwise known as Heather). She asked if I would be abe to continue assisting a 6-8 year old ballet class that I had missed because of play practice. I have a draft to email her back and I am going to talk to her tomorrow. I wasn't supposed to miss yesterday but someone decided to change it so I had to. That really irritated me! Also, I was irritated that some people missed many more practices than I did, and had a bigger part than myself and Sil seemed ok witht hat, but wasn't ok with me missing the few practices I did. I wish she would have let me miss the Thursday practices (minus the dress rehearsal), especially when Act 2 was practicing everyday. Then I wouldnt be in the mess I am in right now. Of course I guess if I hadn't tried out for the play at all, I wouldn't be in this mess either. But when the musical comes around, the same situation will come up again, I have that feeling. Like I said though, I am going to talk to Heather tomorrow and will talk to Sil about the musical to see if she could possibly work around my 4:45-5:30 class so that way I could still assist but hopefully not miss anymore classes. I really njoy that class becuase the little girls are so cute. I have waited forever to get the chance to assist and now the time has come and everything is falling apart. I wish school was not required (like it is at my house). Then I could do the things I enjoy most. But then Mrs. Erwin comes into my head saying, "School is a privelige. We GET to go to school." Anyways, I'm definitely going to pray about the situation ad leave it up to God to decide what is right for me. If anyone else would like to pray for me, I would really appreciate it. I need all the moral support I can get!

I'm trying not to blame others for my mistakes (take play practices for example) but it's soooo hard. It wasn't my fault that dress rehearsal was at 3:40 yesterday, but I have to take responsibility. I hate it! In my email I want to explain to Heather how it isnt my fault that Sil was about to kill me if I missed anymore, but that would be putting the blame on Sil and that is bad. I really want to keep assisting the class but I don't know what to do! I am at a loss! Help please!

Dance, Play, French

I went to my first ever high school dance yesterday. I had fun, even though I am not one to dance like one does usually at dances such as these. But it was good times anyway. Yesterday was slightly stressful for many reasons. I got up at 6:30 to get ready to take the PSAT's at 7:30. Once I got there, at 7:15, I found out that they didn't start until 8:00. That was kinda irritating. Directly after taking the PSAT's, I rushed to my dance studio to help with Nutcracker stuff. That was fun. Then after Nutcrackering for 3 hours, I raced home to get ready for the dance. I got stuck in traffic on y way home so it took my 20 minutes instead of the usual 10 to get home. Since I was ther driver, I needed to hurry. Once in the car, I found out that even though my parents were nice enough to clean out the car, they didn't ge tit filled with gas. So that was yet anouther stop I made before picking up the other 7 people who rode with me. Once everyone was picked up, we went to the Olive Garden for dinner. That was an enjoyable affair. After the Olive Garden we went to Starbucks to kill the hour we had before the dance started. It was a lot of fun. I had a great time.

As for the play...hmmm. It's going ok...I guess. It's weird though, at play practice the scenes seem to be going well until I come on stage. Is it me or something? Just kidding, I know it isn't really because I have really no lines, especially at the end wherre most of the problems ensue. Anyway, I hope it'll turn out alright. I'm sure it will because last year in "The Man Who Came to Dinner", everything was pretty horrible until opening night and then everything clicked. I have hope that this is how it'll be.

I'm so excited for Tuesday and Wednesday in French class! On Tuesday, Dr. Hellman and Mrs. Pertelli are coming in to go to the cafe and Sil is coming on Wednesday. My friend John and I get to speak French to them while someone else is translating. It'll be great fun! Pretty much that's the only joy in French class.

That's pretty much it from this end! Au revoir!

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I am very excited because a certain event is taking place next Monday...It's my 17th birthday! I'm sooo excited! It seems weird for me to be saying, "I'm going to be 17 on Monday." Or even more weird will be Monday when I can officially say, "I'm 17"...17. It seems like such an old number. I mean just think about it, I can go to R rated movies by myself...no adult supervision required (though I have no movie I really want to see at this time). It's just weird. I suppose that 18 will be even more weird because then I will truely be considered an adult. I can move out, go to college, have my own life. It's kind of a scary thing to think about. To have the freedom to move away from my family if I want to. But I suppose if I have any hope of going to college or dancing professionally, I will have to separate from them. But I will be able to proudly say, "I am 17 years old (or J'ai 17 ans)!" in 5 days! Let the count down begin.

I'm so excited for Friday. On this day, I will actually get to learn something for The Nutcracker. This would be Snow Queen. So far, in the 2 weeks practices have gone on, my parts haven't rehursed, so Friday can't come too soon. Also, on Saturday, I get to learn Mother Arch Angel. That will be amusing, seeing as I am in chrage of choreography for myself and will hopefully ask Bradien if I can make a certain step harder for both myself and the Lead Arch Angel. I'm really excited. This Saturday many a thing is happening. Dance team is having their Kids Camp from 9AM-12:30PM, if anyone knows of any kids grades 1-8 who want to come. It will be fun...I hope. I'm just glad that i don't have to take the SAT on this day. Oh and good news, the SAT classes are done for me! Yeah!!!!!!

Saturday is a busy day because that is the day I'm having my mystery party. It should be very fun. I can't wait. Everyone should try these party games. The ages recommended are 13-17 but those older will have a great time anyway.

I was just informed that my neighbor down the street were robbed. That's kind of scary. My dad isn't too worried though because of my dog. She's deffinitely the protective type (those who've been to my house know what i mean). My mom's really worried and as for me, I'm concerned but stand with my dad in the fact that Sophi would bite their heads off before they got near anything to steal. Besdies, what do we have in our house that robbers would want anway...Dance stuff and Disney tapes...who in their right mind would want to steal anything like that?

As for the play, I was nearly replaced today. I feel bad for only being at one practice so far, but today was not my fault. My parents made me go to voice lessons (no joke). Believe me, I would have rather been at play practice. But thankfully Sil had mercy and is giving me one more chance. So tonight I worked really hard cementing my lines into my brain. I think I did ok. I'll find out tomorrow when Andrew will most likely burst out random lines in the middle of Tech Theatre.

And speaking of Tech Theatre, I hate people who are uncooperative. There is this one guy inparticular who drives me insane! Not only is he one of the three who smoke in the lobby bathroom, but when Sil was gone yesterday, he sat on the chair and put his feet on the stool and when I asked him to please get off of the props, he asked why. I spent a good three mintues just telling him to get off of the stupid chair, whic was a complete waste of time. The sub wasn't much help. He just sat there and tried to get people to listen to either me or Joey. The ones who were always working, were fine and listened to us, but the ones who never work, even when Sil is there, didn't. This boy was getting on my nerves. And once he was off of the chair, he put the can of paint on the table with the typewritter so that he could sit down in that chair. When I asked him to please remove it fom the table, he said "OK, I'll work on it", which of course he didn't. So in the end, after many times of "Would you please move the paint?", Kate moved the paint (I was busy doing something else, which I don't remember). But that's my complaint with uncooperative people.

My house smells like rotten eggs and it's gross! My dad has decided that the grapes we have at church should be made into wine. So on Sunday we picked the grapes, and now the grapes (including yeast), smells like rotten eggs. The lid to the container can't be removed to check teh progress. The good news, we have over 7 gallons of wine. The bad news, my front entry smells and it'll probably smell for my party too. I hope not though.

That's all for now. Tomorrow equals a test in Calculus and French, dance/work, and a sleepy morning. Good night everyone!