Nutcracker Arrest Time

We both got our makeup applied quickly, while we ran through our lines, and everyone knew one thing. The show was going to happen. No surprise blizzard, or car accident would stop the school play from going on!

The first few rehearsals, the girls stayed as far away as the boys as possible, but, as time went on, we began to mingle and make lasting friendships with people we would have otherwise never met.

It was still morning when we got there so we had all day to play and mess around. When we got all the stuff out the car we went to go find a spot. While we were looking we were already so excited, anyways when we found a spot we put some blankets on the floor, set our chairs up, and put all the food on the tables. Us kids all went to the bathrooms

Marie and I had just left her house and were walking to the tryouts. It was a really quick walk because she lives only 2 houses away from the studio. This was back in August 2017, a few days after dance camp ended for the summer. We hurried down the stairs to go inside and kept talking about how nervous and excited we were the whole way down. Once we got inside of Bleker’s, we started talking to the other girls. After just a few minutes we were all taken into the dance room and together we all learned a hip hop, jazz, and tap routine. We only had about 30 minutes to learn all of the routines so we were all feeling a little rushed. Before we knew it, the dance teachers put us into groups of 3-5 girls. These groups were the people we would perform our dance routines with. My group was Meghan S, Grace, and I.

We burst out of the door, unveiling ourselves to the crowd outside. We felt like rock stars. Everyone had to get a few more pictures with other friends as they arrived and then we filed inside. The place was decorated from top to bottom, glittered stars hung from the ceiling, white Christmas lights twinkled all around, and glimmering gowns in every color made the entire venue sparkle. As a class, months earlier, we had chosen the theme, “I’ve had the time of my life”. The girls had pulled it from our favorite movie, “Dirty Dancing”, and I think the boys just went with it. We sat down for dinner where we were served our choice of meat, with rice or potatoes and a medley of veggies. Nobody ate much though, either because of nerves, vanity, or just plain desire to get to showing off our best moves, we wanted to boogie! After about an hour the tables were cleared off of the dance floor and it was time to the highly anticipated partying. The DJ played the hottest jams of 1999 and we danced the night away. Most of the girls were in their bare feet, unable to take the pain of high heels any longer as we busted our best moves.

After dropping off our bags we ran into some more of our friends. We all headed back to class and my teacher started to call the roll. After then we all lined up to get on the bus. On the bus I sat in the front with one of my friends, we wanted sit in the front so we could get off the bus first.

The day of our first competition it was pouring and we were told we were going to perform inside. Everyone was excited doing their hair, putting on makeup and getting our uniforms on. We hopped on a bus and drove to the competition, unloaded, and were waiting for our instrument

Then we started to warm up because we had a judge's preview. So basically we just went into a classroom and performed our dance it was really scary at first, but then it got better because I knew they weren’t judging us that

Well, we got to my sister’s house on Friday, and the showing we were going to was the first Saturday performance. We got ready to go, by ready to go, I mean painting nails, trying on shoes, and doing make-up.

The second to last class and I was starting to feel it. This class went by so fast I couldn’t believe it! I was excited, but a little scared for today. I was excited to go see the Upper East Side and see the park of Central Park that I have never seen before, but I was also scared because we were going to Harlem and I heard not so nice things about this neighborhood from my neighbor who is a cop in Harlem, but at the same time I was still excited to see a new neighborhood I have never seen before.

A week and a half later, we had to perform in front of the school during

It was the weekend and we all: (Mom, Dad, Nelson, Mel, and me), went to the stores to get clothes and shoes for the new school year that was coming up. I was entering the First grade, Nelson the Sixth grade, and Mel was doing her last year of Preschool. Mel and I tend to get bored quickly, just watching mom looking

The next day was my first rehearsal. I was so anxious about meeting the people who would be part of my court. I am not an extroverted person, so the thought that I had to socialize with people who I did not know made me really nervous. I was also really anxious because it was the day that I was going to give the announcement of what they were going be wearing. The girls would be wearing long silver dresses and the guys would be wearing tuxes with pink accents. When I gave them this information Moises said, “Silver?!” and let me say that it was not really encouraging.

I arrive at the theater with my bag and find my freshman group. They were sitting in a circle, talking about what was gonna happen. None of us had been to one of these before, so it was all a little nerve racking for us.

I arrived after Jadynn but before Megan, we decided we would wait until Megan got here to start doing the interesting things. When Megan did get there we got on our snow gear and tied a light green long sled to the black four wheeler. Lorrissa drove us around first, it was also my first time doing that so as anyone would expect I would have fell off multifarious times but still Jadynn