Monday, May 16, 2011

A week of solitude

Well folks, I'm back in College Station for about a week. I teach dance classes at a studio here in town and agreed to help out with the recital on the 14th. I drove back up from Dallas on Friday so that I would be on time for our 8 am Saturday curtain call....yiesh...that was early. It certainly was an all-day affair though. We did the dress rehearsal that morning, starting promptly at 9. (The studio director, Lynsey, is a no-non-sense kinda gal so we started at 9 o'clock on the dot. I respect a woman with punctuality)

It ended up running impressively smoothly! The girls were a handful but hilarious at the same time. I help teach a little baby ballet/tap combo class on Mondays and they crack me up- one of the girls, Aanya, would look up at me every 5 minutes, tug on my shirt, and say, "Miss Bethany.......my brother is coming."..."Miss Bethany....... do you know my cousins?"..."Miss Bethany.......my mom is gonna watch me." those comments went on and on. We had to take them backstage a couple numbers before they went on and, not having much experience with the little ones, I didn't realize what an ordeal it would be to line them up. 8 girls, 2 lines, easy right? WRONG! They all wanted to be the leader, and none wanted to be the caboose. I would have them hold hands in order to stay in line, but Elina didn't want to hold Lauren's hand. And quite frankly Lauren didn't want to hold anyone's hand but mine.

I don't blame Sydney for not wanting to hold (a different) Lauren's hand because the little toot decided that if she had to hold Sydney's hand she wasn't going to do it without yanking it incessantly. When I became worried for poor Sydney's shoulder socket, I allowed them to drop hands...

I'm sticking around this week to finish up the last week of classes at the studio. Growing up, we were always finished after recital, but everyone does things differently, I guess. When looking on the bright side, it's nice to have gotten to go to Dallas with a load of stuff, and then come back to finish the move out. Makes things less stressful. It's nice to not really have anything to do. The cable on our TVs was turned off on Monday, so besides internet surfing, I watch movies and read. It's really beautiful outside too.

It's weird that I have no pictures to post in regards to this blog entry.....I know (for myself, at least) I'm always more prone to skip over posts without pictures. But I'm also ADD, and holding my attention in general is a trick. I'll be more entertaining tomorrow.

Here's to consistency...ish...

Nothin but love,
Bethany

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