Modern Ensemble Piece

alright, so as you know, I was picked for a modern ensemble piece. I go to rehearsals at the end of the week which is a good thing. anyways, I've been to 2 rehearsals so far and we got about a minute and a half done. the song we dance to is called "White is in the Winter Night" by Enya. it's a Christmas song to go along with the upcoming holiday. it's a pretty cool song that's fun to dance to except the steps are kinda fast, so you have to really know the dance. so the first rehearsal was good except for one thing. the teacher was giving all of us specific "personalities" to act as during the piece. when she looks at me, she automatically said that I was "the silly one". yeah that's no so bad, but then she said that I had to be the only one wearing these stupid glasses. they are the kind that have the big nose and mustache connected to them. if you don't know what glasses I'm talking about then go to this website: http://www.bobpiper.co.uk/nose-moustache-glasses.jpg . I mean, it wouldn't be so bad if everyone had to wear them, but it was just me! no one else had "anything special" to wear! grrr..... but luckily on the second rehearsal, the teacher thought about it and said that the "personalities" didn't really seem like a good idea. THANK GOD! way to scare me to death! I was about to drop out of the piece! thoughts of the photo shoot and the performance made me so stressed out! yeeeesh! well, I guess I'm very lucky. the costume now is a skirt with pompoms on the bottom and a purple Santa hat. so everything turned out all right in the end. phew! 

well ttylz peoplez!

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SOME KID WITH A BUNNY NAMED MARMADUKE

Stupid Spirit Kids and Town Fair

On the bus to school last Friday, there were a couple "spirited" kids. it was spirit day in school on Friday and the whole school was divided into three teams: the red team, the white team and the black team. I was on the red team and so is this little, annoying, bratty, OBNOXIOUS, sixth grader. it's like the girl sprung off the diving bored and landed in a huge bucket of red paint. but she didn't come on the bus like that. when she got on the bus she was dressed in a red football jersey and red shorts. not that bad. but one of her friends on our bus had face paint crayons with her. so the girl took the red one and put red streaks under her eyes and wrote "RED" in messy letters down both of her arms. and when the tip broke off her precious crayon, she threw a fit. LITTERALLY! gosh get over it kid! it's a dang crayon! well I thought she was all done applying red to any visible part of her, but I was wrong. another one of her friens said that they brought some red hairspray that they can put on once they get off the bus. being the stupid sixth graders they were, they didn't know that hairspray wasn't allowed in school or on it's grounds. haha! I would have liked to see how that went! but gosh, they were annoying! especially the little red girl. but the thing is, she is ALWAYS like that on the bus!! grrrr...

well yesterday was that town fair thingy where I did face painting to little kids. it was acually kinda fun cuz they were really cute. it's a good thing I wasn't asked to do really complicated things. except this one girl wanted a princess. I personally thought it looked okay minus the face. I only had one very very dull black face paint crayon and I needed to make a face on my princess and no other colors would look good on it. so I just tried it with the black and well let's just say, the princess's mouth was thicker than both her feet. watever. she was little so she loved it anyways. another kid who was really little asked my for a rainbow on one check and a butterfly on the other. once I was done with the rainbow, I asked her what color she wanted her butterfly to be. she said rainbow. so I asked her if she wanted a rainbow AND a rainbow butterfly and she said yes. wow. this kid must really like rainbows. but watever so I did her rainbow butterfly and she loved it. little did I know she started a new trend and about three other kids wanted the same thing. little kids can be very interesting. well that's all I have in my magical hat of stories for now.

happy weekend!

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SOME KID WITH A BUNNY NAMED MARMADUKE

homework, essay, school, town fair, vocab.

uhggg!!! soooo much homework this week! but I have time now to be on my computer so here I am! I just finished by book report on The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. it's a terrible annoying boring a pretty good book. I mean it could have been a little more exciting but it was ok. I'm excited to see the movie in school next week (watching movie in school = shortened classes!!!). so on Saturday I have a big day. I am working at my town's little fair thingy with my friend-- we are doing face painting. I'm not sure how it will go over... what happens if I mess up on a kids face?!? wat ever. after that, I go to ballet class and then to the Nutcracker reversal. yah, I'm gonna be pretty pooped by the end of Saturday. I also had an English vocab test today which was very easy. but I still don't get why I needed to learn the word "lithograph". I mean, when am I going to need a word for a picture on a rock in my life? I know... who talks about pictures on rocks anyway?! well bunny needs some more water so I'm going to go refil it now.


that was my brief synopsis for today.
(hehe... "synopsis was one of my vocal words!)


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SOME KID WITH A BUNNY NAMED MARMADUKE

when in doubt, dance. when in doubt of your dancing skills, just accept that your dancing is an epic fail.

long title huh? well it goes along with my post for today. so today was the first jazz class I've ever took. I thought since I have been doing ballet and modern for so long, why not try jazz? so I did. and as this blog title says, it was an epic fail. but it's okay. the teachers really nice and the group of newbies just laughed with eachother. I know I'll get better, but it wasn't that bad for my fist class. so I give myself some credit for trying my hardest.

so I got more results today, and I'm in one modern contemporary piece. yay! I rehearse modern on Fridays and ballet (the nutcracker) on Saturdays. rehearsals are pretty close to eachother which is also nice. I also found out that my snow attendant part is acually a sugar plum fairy attendant instead. I'm really excited since that dance is done with me and one of my friends as a duet! I'm gonna have to work HAAARRRDDD to do well in that dance, but I'm up for the challenge.

remember: if you can't dance at all, dance your way through that epic fail.

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SOME KID WITH A BUNNY NAMED MARMADUKE

dance auditions

I dunno if I told you.... but I dance. a lot. six days a week. yeah, you can call me insane... but hey, it's the truth. so anyway, I tried out yesterday for my dance school's production of the Nutcracker along with some other contemporary pieces. I found out that in the Nutcracker, I'm gonna be a mouse and a snow attendant. usually the really little kids do the mice, and they are, so apparently I'm a "big mouse" who's in a dance with the mouse queen (the mouse queen is a lead role, so I feel special dancing with it). so it's not the worst part in the world but I guess I'm okay with it. the best part about being a "big mouse" is I get to have a dagger in my mouth the whole dance!!! hehe... did I mention the mice are the "bad guys" in the Nutcracker? well I'm looking forward to rehearsals to see what the whole dance I'm doing looks like. the results for the contemporary pieces haven't been posted yet, so I don't know which of those I'll be in, but I'll tell you once I figure it out.

well, I gotta go clean marmaduke's cage now, so bye for now!

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SOME KID WITH A BUNNY NAMED MARMADUKE

P.S. do ya like my blog's new look? Now you can see a picture of my bunny!!! he's adorable right?!?!

can ya handle the dish? I guess not.

so my beautifully handsome bunny, marmaduke, is still not getting the whole litter box thing. when I looked at his hay dish, there was a bunch of poop and pee in it. I almost puked. just kidding, but I did gag about 3 times while cleaning it out. so, we came to the conclusion that he thinks his hay dish is a litter box. no little buddy, you accually eat the hay. well watever. so to cure that problem, we bought him a hay rack. it's just a little box like thing filled with hay that hangs from the bars of the cage instead of a food dish, which he pees in. he seems to like it just as much as hay in a dish, but this tine, he can't pee or poop in it. the only annoying thing about the hay rack is, since we bought really cut up hay, it falls through the bottom of the rack. so we just put a piece of hard paper stuff from this pamphlet we got in the mail, at the bottom of the rack so it didn't come out. it worked fine which was good. then at dinner, my older brother was looking at something that says "with your verizon FiOS plan, you can watch TV on your computer for free! just go to this website to register" my brother was very excited about this, but when he looked down at the website, half of it was cut off. yup, that's the hard paper stuff we cut off the pamphlet and put in the bunny cage. haha! he threw a fit. not really, but he was annoyed. haha, I still think it's funny.

well that's all for today chicos!

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SOME KID WITH A BUNNY NAMED MARMADUKE

Smile! (NOT)

yup, today it was picture day at school. whoo hoo. I and a bunch of other people completely dispise picture day. well I guess it's not picture day we hate, it's just the annoying ladies who run it. this year, my picture day went quite well compared to previous years.

this is how last years picture day went (remember all of the things I say in this script are my thoughts):

lady: okay next person!
me: oh great
lady: now sit on this stool and put your feet here
me: alright whatever
lady: now sit up straight
me: I am sitting up straight!
lady: a little more
me: I FRICK'N SITTING UP STRAIGHT!!! so I just arched my back a little to be as "straight" as they wanted me to be
lady: that's perfect!
me: are you serious?
lady: oh, wait...
me: oh god what now?!?!
lady: let me just fix your hair a little bit
me: get your hands off me!!!!! CHILD ABUSE!!!!
lady: okay, that's better.
me: are you satisfied?! my back is cramping up!
lady: okay now tilt your head to the side a little
me: so I tilted my head a little
lady: a little more...
me: okaaayyyy.... so I tilted it slightly more
lady: just a tad bit more
me: I swear, my head is at a 90° angle!!!
lady: okay now smile!
me: **small grin**
lady: bigger! let me see those beautiful teeth!
me: just take the damn picture!!!!
lady: **snap, snap, snap** alrighty! your all done!
me: thank god.

so as you can clearly see, those stupid picture ladies are the most obnoxious and annoying things on this planet! but that whole story was last year... this year my picture taking session went by very quickly (that's very lucky) and boy am I glad! hopefully my picture will come out okay, but I still don't know.

that's my story. and don't forget to smile! (NOT!)

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SOME KID WITH A BUNNY NAMED MARMADUKE