Ezra and I Made the Cake

My 9th birthday is tomorrow, on November 7, and so is my ballet class. I have to leave at 3:30 because it takes a half-hour to get there. 

Tomorrow I have Miss Zoanne, my teacher because she is always there on Thursdays. Miss Mary is my teacher on Tuesdays. 

On my birthday we are going to have hamburgers for lunch. I might have my friends over. Ezra and I made the cake, but we haven’t made the frosting yet. We are going to make the frosting on my birthday. 

Ezra and I are going to make the frosting and the cake with coconut. Coconut cake is my favorite cake. When we are done putting the frosting on the cake, we are going to sprinkle coconut flakes on top of it. 

Some of the New Exercises

I got some new ballet exercises:

  • Kneeling turnout
  • Parallel to turnout 
  • Functional turnout
  • Performance stretch
  • Single leg rises turned out
  • Cat stretch 
  • Three legged cat 
  • Wall press 
  • Gluteal stretch

Some of the new exercises are hard for me because it is hard to follow the moves on the videos. 

My Performance is Right Next to Christmas

My performance is right next to Christmas. I have some friends that are going to be there at my performance. They dance at Selah Dance Academy too. Their names are Abby and Sophie. They are in the same class together at the dance school, but I am in a different class. They go to hip-hop and tap. I go to Ballet and Pointe classes. 

Sophie is nine years old and Abby is eight years old, which is the same age as me. Sophie lives right next to me. We live on one hill and she lives on an opposite hill. We can walk down and up the hill and we can go to each other's house. 

This is a picture of me and Abby at last year’s performance near Christmas.


There is a New Girl in my Class

There is a new girl in my class. Her name is Emma. She used to do ballet when she was four years old. I don't know why she had stopped. She might be now nine or eight years old like me. She quickly understood the dance instructions. There are two teachers: one of the teacher's name is Emma too. The new girl, even kind of looks like the Emma teacher, except the girl is not a redhead. We call the teacher "Miss Emma" and the new girl, just "Emma."

We practiced part of the dance performance by grabbing different size balls, one for each dancer, and running across the room by gradually lifting the ball slowly up over our heads while the music plays. We run on our tippie-toes very lightly, so we don't make any sound with our feet. We are pretending that the balls are planets. The dance is about creation and what God created. 

The difficult part is in the timing of the exercises in general, going too fast or too slow. The music goes slower or faster, and we follow the teacher's dance moves as she is standing on the side of the room. We can see her in the big wall mirror, no matter which way we are standing. Sometimes the teacher uses the mirror to write the French ballet words. She can erase it easily from the mirror.