Television

On Wednesday night the show Glee was supposed to come on at 8:00 and my DVR was set to record it. So we were going to wait to watch Glee until after it was done recording so that we could fast forward through all of the commercials. When the DVR is recording a show a little red light is shown on the DVR. It was about 8:10 when my mom looked at the DVR and noticed that it wasn't recording. She immediately screamed, "Glee isn't recording. Micah, did you forget to record it?" I immediately dashed into the living the room. Both my mom and I tried to figure out what was going on. All my mom kept saying is that we had already missed 10 minutes of Glee. It was total chaos until we finally realized that Glee didn't come on this week because the World Series was on. As soon as we found that Glee wasn't coming on total disappointment in the entire house. Every Wednesday my sister, mom , and I look forward to watching it. Actually we have many shows that we look forward to every week. It is so nice to be able to sit on the couch and be able to relax and watch tv. There are some people that can't really follow shows week by week. However my family isn't like that. We have our DVR set to record like a million shows per week. Sometimes we even get behind and that's really sad because then our DVR memory is almost full and we have to make time to sit down and watch tv. The tv isn't really a bad thing though because it is something that my mom sister and I can all do together. I love coffee :)

Ghost Hunting

For fall break I went to South Ponte Vedra Beach in Florida. It is not that far from St. Augustine, FL. I had been there many times but I had never been able to take a ghost tour because my younger sister had always been scared. This time my sister's friends stayed with us one night because they were staying at Daytona which is only a hour aways. So since her friends were going to be there my sister felt like she could muster up the courage and go on a ghost tour. So my mom, my sister and her two friends, and I all took a ghost tour that night. However it wasn't really like a ghost tour it was more like a ghost hunt. When we arrived at our starting point we were greeted by our tour guide. Luckily for us there were two more men who were ghost enthusiasts that were taking the tour that night. When we were about to embark on our adventure we were each handed a EMF transmitter. This was supposed to detect the energy of a "ghost". Every time the lights would flash up and then quickly go back down a ghost was supposed to be really close. Our mode of transportation for the tour would be in a hearse. Luckily my sister and her friends had to sit in the back where they would put a coffin because they were the shortest. The first stop on our tour was the lighthouse which was supposed to be extremely haunted. Apparantly there had been a lot of activity there lately. When we first started looking for ghost I was a little freaked out because it was kind of eerie. I was just waiting for my emf detector to start flashing. They even had us swing on a swing set because they though that we might attract the children ghost. After we got used to everything it actually turned out to be quite fun. We learned a lot of interesting things and had fun but I don't believe that I am going to be buying myself an EMF detector anytime soon so that i can ghost hunt. Starbucks is amazing :)

Pain

This week a choreographer has come in from New York to choreograph and set a piece on the company. Yesterday was the first day for us to learn the piece. I was at dance from 1-7. I never knew that six hours could go by so slowly and painfully. I really enjoying learning his pieces and his new technique that he is trying to create is amazing. However it is so different than what I am used to doing. He also has us dance with bare feet. I don't have that many callouses on the bottom of my feet so it is really painful for me to have to dance without shoes for long periods of time. After we got out of rehearsal yesterday I didn't even want to put any shoes on because the bottom of my feet felt like they were on fire. The bottom of my feet were raw and it was like the whole layer of my foot and rubbed off. I also got blisters on the bottom of my toes which makes it extremely difficult for me to walk. After I left dance yesterday all I wanted to do is to soak my feet and then go to sleep. When I woke up this morning I didn't think that I was going to be able to get out of bed. Every muscle in my body ached. Even though it is extremely painful the pain shows me that I am doing something right. If I wasn't in pain when I woke up that would mean that I hadn't done anything right and that I didn't do my best. However sometimes I wish that I hadn't done my best because then I wouldn't be so sore. Luckily today I didn't have to climb up any steps because if I did I don't know that I could have made. Every time I get up some bone in my body cracks. I just have to look at the light at the end of the tunnel because I know that Jon Lehrer is an amazing choreographer and it is going to be an awesome piece. I just have to dance out the soreness and when I wake up tomorrow I will be just as sore and I will have to start the whole process over again. Starbucks is amazing!!!!!!!!!

Street Sweeping

On Saturday I had my first Beta Club volunteer experience. We had to clean up the streets around Apollo. I knew that it had gotten cold outside but I didn't realize it was freezing outside. I had on sweatpants and a light weight sweatshirt and I figured that I had on plenty of clothing. My mom kept telling me that I should put on more clothes but I don't get cold that easily so I didn't put on any extra layers. I also stopped at Starbucks and got a venti espresso truffle because I figured that it would also help warm me up. I drank the whole drink before we even started. When I got there we had to stand outside and get instructions and trash bags. By the time my groups got our trash bags and started walking to our street I was frozen. I was amazed at all of the trash on the streets. There seemed to be just about anything you could think of on the street. Probably the most interesting thing someone found were syringes that still had stuff in them. I wasn't going to touch them but some of the other girls were brave enough to. Some of the girls also were chased by a dog. They had to cross to the other side of the street so that they wouldn't get bitten. The owner of the dog came outside of her house and said that the dog wouldn't bite. How would she know if it wouldn't bite? It looked like a dog that could have rabis. After we had frozen for a hour we were finally finished. As soon as we got done I went to Starbucks for a second time and got a venti cofee to warm me up. By first Beta club project taught me many things: dress warm in cold weather, don't throw your trash on the roads, and Starbucks really is a life saver when you need something to warm you up.

Nutcracker

Nutcracker casting was posted a few weeks ago. There acutally weren't that many suprises in the casting this year. Lexie and I had fantasy casted our Nutcracker a week before casting was posted. We assigned a point value to each part and if you guessed the girl with that part correctly you got the points. So when casting was posted Lexie copied all of the parts down on a piece of paper and brought it to school. We added up all of our points and I won! Even though it was only by three points I still won, but that wasn't really a good thing because I didn't give myself any of the parts that I actually wanted. It was kind of disappointing for me to look at the list because this year I didn't get any parts that I hadn't had before. Don't get me wrong I have always had really good parts because I have always danced with girls that are a year older than me. This year that has come to bite me in the butt because now all of the other girls are seniors and they get parts just because they are seniors. They don't care about me this year because I am just a junior. I just have to be patient and wait til next year I guess. There are three parts in snow, snow queen, snow princesses, and snow fairies. The seniors are snow queens and snow princesses and I am left to be a snow fairy. No one can understand why I am not a snow princess. Everyone thinks that it isn't fair except the one senior who is a snow princess but they have only been dancing for three years. So I am stuck with girls who are in the eighth grade and this is their first year in snow. They have no clue what they are doing. The worst part is that the dance teacher puts me in the front of everything by the snow princesses. It is almost as if she is trying to make up for me not being a princess. Why would she do that? If she feels guilty for not making me one then why did she make me a fairy? I would rather be in the back then stand up in the front and watch other people do what I should be doing. It just not fair but dance has taught me many times that life isn't fair. The first time I didn't get a part that I wanted because "I was to short" I cried my eyes out and when I didn't make company the first time I just didn't understand. However I haven't cried a tear since because you just have to be strong persevere. I am just going to have to wait until my senior year so that I can shine. I just hope that I can make it through this year. I love coffee sooooo much!!!

HOBY

This summer I go to attend the leadership conference HOBY at Translyvania. I was really excited that I had been chosen to attend this conference but I was also really apprehensive because it was 3 nights and I was going to have to use community bathrooms which was a first for me. I almost didn't want to go because I was afraid that my roommate would be weird or that I wouldn't know anyone and it would be no fun. However I decided to take the risk and go anyways. I'm so glad that I did. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. It was really nice to get to be around kids who are leaders just like you. In my group, C2, almost everyone was their class president. I am a pretty outgoing person but only if I know the people that I am around. At HOBY I had to step out of my comfort zone and do things in front of people that I didn't even know. The people in our group were all very outgoing and we were probably one of the loudest groups there. Every time our leader would yell out C2 we would all yell Oh yeah. We did that so much that eventually other students not from our group would join in. We also got to compete in an Amazing Race style race around Lexington. That was something different that I had never done before. Although our team didn't win (we had to stop for a coffee break at a coffee shop) we still had a lot of fun. We also had a dance on Saturday night that was lots of fun. I couldn't believe that I was the only person that knew how to do the hoedown throwdown. After that night I think that every one knew how to do it I was also able to get over my fear of public bathrooms. The first time that I had to take a shower with flip flops on it was a little weird but I was able to over come my fear. So I now feel like I can handle it when I go to college. I also had a really nice roommate who was from Whitesville which isn't that far from Owensboro. We even knew some of the same people. So unlike my fears I didn't have a weird roommate. I don't even think that there was a girl at the conference who would have made a bad roommate. Overall I had a great time at HOBY. I wasn't ready to leave when the conference was over. I'm really glad that I took the risk and did something that was out of my comfort zone because now I have great memories and lots of new friends. I can't wait to go back this year and be on Team Alumni. HOBY is not just a conference but its a way of life. This is an example of one of the many cheers that we had to do it HOBY. We had to say this after every speaker finished speaking.

What did you think of our speaker?

They were O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G

out, out, outstanding

Car Bashing

Have you ever bashed a car? Well now I can say that I have. Last Thursday I had the opportunity to not only bash a car but to skip some dance class to go and do it. My friend from dance, Lexie really wanted to go to the car bashing at school but the only problem was that it was from 4-7 and we had dance form 4-8. She kept telling me that she has a break while I was in tap and that I should just miss tap to go bash the car. I wasn't going to ask the teacher if I could miss a class to go and bash a car even if the money was going to a charity. So I told Lexie that if she would ask the teacher if I could miss dance to bash a car that I would go if the teacher said I could miss. It took Lexie about twenty minutes to muster up the courage to go and ask Allison, the teacher, and surprisingly Allison said yes! So as soon as Jazz class was over all of the dancers who attend Apollo changed and went straight to my car. We only had 30 minutes to get to apollo, smash the car, and get back to dance before ballet started. However we were not to concerned about getting back to ballet on time because Mrs. carothers had been very mean lately. Lexie decides that we should make a pit stop at Dairy Queen because she was about to starve and we didn't want her complaining the rest of the trip. We all order greasy food which is something our dance teachers don't like to see but we don't get to eat french fries very often. Bashing the car was a great way to relieve stress even though the hammer was really heavy it was still lots of fun. I just imagined that the car was someone and I hit it pretty hard. It was also really funny because we had to wear these safety glasses. Of course being dancers we take pictures at every get together so we had to take some of us smashing the car. It was kind of sad when the car smashing was over but it was a great way to relieve stress. Probably the best part of the night was when we got to dance and we were late for ballet. Mrs. Carothers knew that we were going to be late because one of the dancers told her that we were at a charity event. Which we did donate money to St. Judes. When we finally got changed and went to ballet lexie smelled like an onion ring. So all we did the whole class was laugh because she smelt like an onion ring. Lets just say that the car smashing trip was a great relief from the long week at dance and school. I hadn't laughed that much in a long time.