OK, I believe we’re lastly beginning to get the hold of this dance workforce competitors factor!
Issues to anticipate embrace:
- A protracted day with numerous sitting round and ready with brief bursts of exercise when it’s time for the little women to bounce.
- Hauling round loads of snacks, particularly ones with protein for the mothers.
- Placing collectively a listing of the costume particulars. Spreadsheets and screenshots might be concerned!
- Researching locations to eat should you assume you’ll be there for greater than six hours.
- Researching the parking state of affairs earlier than I get there.
- Working towards hairstyles means forward of time.
- Snug footwear you’ll be able to run in since you may must dash from the stage to the dressing room; quick-changes are not any joke!
I’m considering that if she’s in it for the lengthy haul, I’m finally bringing tenting gear. I’m critical! On the final competitors I noticed a pop-up tent for altering and a handful of light-weight journey chairs and thought, “Nicely, that mother is a genius.”
The ladies did rather well! That they had two dances, they usually positioned at a excessive gold for faucet and a platinum for hip hop. (I’ve been informed it is a good factor.)
Can I simply say, it’s a visit to see Connor evolve as a dancer. Her confidence appears to develop with each routine, and I believe her lecturers discover it, too.
My hope is that she retains at it for some time as a result of dance appears to make her really feel particular outdoors of faculty. I grew up in a strict household the place grades have been the barometer that outlined your worthiness, so college was the one factor that mattered. The one sanctioned non-school actions have been quiet ones that appeared to make you much more studious, like enjoying piano. By no means thoughts should you hated it! Dance or sports activities have been typically considered as one thing that will get in the way in which of your research.
I don’t actually assume that’s the case, although. I believe actions outdoors of faculty educate self-discipline, easy methods to work with a workforce, easy methods to categorical your self and course of feelings, easy methods to deal with disagreements with others and easy methods to handle expectations – life expertise that turn out to be useful down the street.
Anyway, I’m completely happy that Connor nonetheless likes it!
Oh, and so this put up is considerably make-up associated, she nonetheless completely refuses to let me put any eyeshadow on her, sigh.
She likes vivid pink blush and pink lipstick. 🙂
Your pleasant neighborhood magnificence addict,
Karen
