Well..I'm sure by now nobody reads this anymore. It has been months since I last posted. I thought I'd just do a quick update. I have in fact been skating, but I've also been very busy with the drill team at school.
So first the skating news. I retook and passed my preliminary moves with flying colors. I'm currently working on my pre-juvenile moves which I have to pass before I can take my bronze freeskate. I haven't been doing any competing since the houston fall invitational last year. My first competition back is going to be the Bluebonnet open here in Austin. I'll still be skating bronze (and probably will for a good while). I started working on an axel sort of. I only get to have a lesson where we work on it when I have a lesson with my sister. Which is never. I'm just forcing myself to attempt them and get more comfortable with them. Then when I have a chance with her we get on the harness. I need to get better about the off-ice. The wierd thing is I used to be able to do them off-ice no problem, but since I've started actually working on them on-ice I can't do them off anymore. Humph.
In other news my drill team went to competition this year and the officers won the lyrical category with the dance I choreographed! I was so proud. I hope we can improve upon our competition performance next year. It's going to take a little more dedication, though and I feel like we're still lacking on that. Spring show was last weekend and boy am I glad it's over. It went off pretty well. I'm not 100% happy with the way they performed. They just have a problem with not taking any of these things serious enough. They talk about wanting a bigger team and things like that, but they don't understand that you have to be good for (good) people to want to be on the team, and that takes hard work, dedication, and taking performances seriously. There are some very talented dancers on the team, I just wish they would...you guessed it...take the team more seriously. I'm excited about next year, though. Tryouts are next week...I hope we get alot of girls trying out.
Well...I can't think of anything else right now. I'm going home for my high schools spring show this weekend. It's the first one in probably 8 or so years for me, but this is going to be my director's last official year, so I'd like to go see her last show. Anyway, that's it for real.
