Sunday, May 22, 2011

The end of school

is this Wednesday. With the end of the world imminent we managed to cram into one week, Emily's French exam award ceremony, her choir concert and a piano recital. The last piano recital with her teacher Kenda.


Emily is the third girl from left, in the back row, and Kenda is the second.
I am feeling nostalgic about all the people we are leaving behind as our move gets closer. I have been making arrangements to withdraw Emily from Jenks schools so she can enroll in her new school and register for the fall. Her eighth grade year has flown by. It feels like being on the top of a roller coaster ready to free fall, with no turning back.
But not everything is coming to an end.

There's still dance. Dance recital, dance camp, a performance of Sleeping Beauty. Emily was cast as Cinderella. Who knew Cinderella shows up in the ballet of Sleeping Beauty? But come on, who cares, what ballerina doesn't want to be Cinderella? I asked Emily what she thought when she saw her part. She said on a scale of one to ten, a twenty-five!

Emily is also a featured dancer for the 9 stake youth conference this summer. She's doing a 1930's and 1950's swing dance with lifts and flips and her personal favorite the "tootsie roll."

One performance she missed was her competition team competed last Sunday. They placed first which is so awesome just sorry it had to be on a Sunday.

Next up, the recital and the black swan.

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