Dress Rehearsal

Today at school we had the dress rehearsal of our show, when we ran it end to end. It worked out fine. Tomorrow is the real show. We end school on thursday next week. We did it just like we will tomorrow. After lunch, we did math. Then, at one, we started to get ready. We were all a little scared. In the bathroom, where we changed, there was a mutual feeling of tension. I helped Allie put her hair into a bun. I'm second. The end of my act ends with me in a split. As soon as the curtain closes, Thump! that's me getting out of my split. I have to fold up my pad quick as a flash. I go back in the dressing room. I put my hair in a bun and slip on my tunic over my unitard. A bit later, Amy and I get ready for the Odyssey Rap. Even once that's done, I can't relax. I get out of my greek monkeysuit. In the end, the finale, we sing the stupid song. It goes somewhat like this:

We are the future of the world,

We will take care of the earth,

We will take care of our country,

We will give freedom a new birth.

Why am I telling you this today, not tomorrow? Tomorrow I'm going to tell what actually happened- not what it was supposed to be like.

News Update

I've been really busy with the kittens. Buster found his family before he had to go to the shelter. The other kittens, my kittens, are starting to play. They are so cute! I've been working really hard at school. I'm almost completely caught up in math. I'm already above the standard for reading and writing things. Everyone in the fifth grade knows what they are going to do for the end-of-the-year talent show. We have to sing a really stupid song for the finale. The music teacher has been working on it with us. Last Saturday Mom and I went all the way to the mall. At the Target there, I got my gymnastics outfit. It's a black tank top shorty unitard with rhinestones around the neckline. Of course I have some old ones that I could wear. But would you like to give a performance to very minor key music while wearing a ratty old unitard that's blue with huge purple starbusts on it? I wouldn't. Uh-oh, I can hear Blackie fighting with one of the kittens.