Today, I had school. (woo! Exciting...) Since it's close to Thanksgiving my school has an annual "Turkey Ball." Basically, everyone gets out of class for the last three hours of the day to sit in the schools, hard, small, bleachers and watch the teachers cream the students in volleyball. And like the true 8th graders my class and I turned out to be- we came in last in the Turkey Ball competitions (between grade levels,) like every 8th grade class before us has. (Gotta follow tradition!) Though this year, we actually did try...a little.
My grade collected over 600 pairs of shoes for one competition, that goes to, "The Shoe Man." The Shoe Man is a non-profit org. that collects shoes from people, and sells them REALLY cheap to people in poor countries that can't afford regular priced shoes. He then takes the money that he earns, and uses that money to build wells in villages that have no local water supply. In some villages, the women have to get up every day WAY before daylight and walk MILES to get to one water well that all the locals share. Then walk back all those miles with the water! So The Shoe Man reeeeaaaalllllyyyy helps these people, and it's a REALLY good cause! Check out his website and maybe donate a few old shoes, any kind- even heels! As long as there are no holes, you're good! http://www.shoeman.org/
Well anyways-besides that competition, we lost every other one. Like the pie eating contest, the volley-ball tournament, or the golden egg race, lost em' all. It was funny though- I think we all took in as much pride as being last as we would have as being first! My teacher wasn't happy though...she really wanted to win....
Well, after all of that I went to my voice lessons. I take private voice lessons that are majorly based off of classical training. I want to become an opera singer when I'm older, but I also would like to do a few musicals as well, like Kristin Chenoweth. She recently played "Galinda the Good Witch" from Wi
cked. See? She has a beautifully trained operatic voice, but she is also wonderful for musicals because she still has that wonderful voice, but she is VERY spunky and peppy, and just a delightful performer.That's my downfall, I want to try musicals, but I am still quite terrible at dancing (meaning, when I try to dance, I'm the person people look at and go, "Oh...That poor girl.") Okay, so I'm not thhhat bad, but you get what I mean! ;)
Though, sadly, that's not my only downfall. I am still pretty shaky on acting. You see, up until this year I have been a very shy person, so this is all new to me. As a little girl, I was a tomboy and just wanted to play soccer. So, I have a bit of a late start. I take acting lessons now from a private acting coach, every two weeks. "It's a slow process...but you're doing better," he told me last lesson. I like him a lot. He's straight forward (which I need- I can't learn well from teachers who cover up my mistakes. How do I learn anything that way?) But, even though he is straight forward, he is pleasant about it. He's not harsh, which I am VERY thankful for, because I know that I'm quite a hard case! So, maybe I'll get to do musicals some day- I have done one (actually two, but that's a long story that I'm sure I'll tell eventually.) :D Hmm, musicals sound like a good idea for me huh? Maybe I'll audition with this song??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouL9ZMzEZ4k
Haha! Maybe not... Well, it's getting kind of late, and I have voice lessons again tomorrow early. (:P Why early lessons???) So, I will say Adieu :D Bye!!! I'll post again tomorrow! <3 xoxo
