I can't believe it's been a whole bloody year I've been with Ballet Rincon. One year ago today I was dancing around Cienega's stage as a Beginning Ballet Wood Nymph, escorting Clara to the Land of the Sweets.

Something about this year was more amazing than last year. Dunno if that I was in Jazz this year, that we did the ENTIRE Nutcracker, that we were on Santa Rita's humongous stage, or that I'm a flower this year, dancing around IN the Land of the Sweets for Clara.

They were the three best days of my life.

Tech rehearsal went okay at FIRST... I did the Jazz dance and felt fine, then went to sit in the audience to watch everyone else perform. Right before Wlatz of the Flowers, I got this INSANE tummy ache. They called up our dance and I thought I would be okay... A dancer's gotta do what a dancer's gotta do.

I did fifteen seconds of just the mark-through and told Sara to tell the teacher I had to go throw up and ran offstage. Very emberassing. Even more so when I came in the next day and EVERYONE knew, and they ALL asked if I was okay. Very sweet that they cared though. Dress rehearsal went 50x's better. The flowers and I have our own dressing room, so we hung out in there for the long hour wait until we're onstage. I love them so much. All of them. They're wonderful and I just... love them like nuts. We had a BLAST hanging out back there. Like little girls at a sleepover or something.

The next day was GREAT. Before we went to the performance, Sharon took me to see Corpse Bride (my tenth time) and it was SO MUCH FUN!!!! We made it to the school just on time and I rushed back to wait backstage for my dance.

The Jazz dance was amazing. Our dance went great and even without my glasses I could spot a lot of people who promised to come. When we came out for the finale and did the kickline, the audience started clapping. I almost burst into tears right there, I was so happy. But I settled for giggling insanely and continuing to dance instead XD Then we went backstage and I got ready for ballet.

*WARNING FOR BOYS: TALK OF FEMALE PUBERTY COMING UP HERE:*

I found out when I got backstage and felt a few cramps that I started my friggen period. I had been feeling cramps a few days before and was just PRAYING "Wait just a few more days... PLEEEEASE just a few more days."

But that is Chi's luck. And I got it THE DAY of my bloody performance. So I had to put on an emergency pad and just hope it would work. (I refuse to learn how to use a tampon. I despise them with a passion.) It worked fine with my Jazz costume but, as I expected, it started to leak on my Flower costume. Not very much, but still enough. And we get to keep our SPRING costumes. The winter ones we hafta return. (We snuck the costume out at the end of the night. We're gonna dry clean it and return it to her later.)

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As if that wasn't a costume disaster enough, the netting inside my dress ripped and was hanging from the bottom of my skirt. But I went to Miss Kellen and she just ripped the rest off for me and it looked fine. I went back to the dressing room and Audrey was playing on one of the computers at this website, playing this game for The Grudge. I thought it would be scary but we actually had a blast. We kept Cheri outside to keep watch and we turned off the dressing room lights and went through the game. We decided we would not go onstage happy until the Grudge killed us and we died.

Which we did eventually, 5 minutes before they called us up XD It was SO - MUCH - FUN.

The dance went AMAZING and Miss Kellen and Miss Vikkie were SO FRIGGEN PROUD. We got on for the bow and smileed until the curtain closed. I was SO firggen sad it was over, but me and Sara JUMPED up and hugged each other, and then the flowers got into this big group hug.

I can't wait until Spring Semester. I just love the people at my studio so much. It feels SO GOOD to be a part of it.

Next Semester I'm gonna be in ballet again of COURSE, and in Intermediate Teen Tap (WOO!) I can't WAIT for Spring Concert.

But Ballet season is over for now (*sniff*) And doesn't start again until March. But Cheerleading season started again! And we're going to Disneyland on Wednesday, muhahaha.

WOO! Life rocks.