Cats-In-The-Cradle And The Silver Spoon?
She's packed...well, except for the stuff she's sleeping in and the iPod gadgets and such that she's using. She'll put that stuff in this morning.
She's been talking about it ever since she went to the audition and made it.
She's gone food shopping for various dorm-room type non-perishables.
What's even worse is that she's doing all this at the loathed and detested University of Alabama. Loathed and detested by those of us in the Auburn Family. I guess it's pretty well-respected by most others...and truth be known, even those in the Auburn Family loathe and detest the football program and not the university at-large.
This American Ballet Theater is borrowing my daughter for three weeks. They stay in dorms, dance during the day, eat meals together and all that. I'm guessing it's like a short-term "Fame." You remember. That school where everybody was uber-talented and they allegedly went to school during the first part of the day and then danced or sang or played music or painted the other half?
These are kinda like that, except it's all dance. All day. They're called "summer intensives" which I've heard is an apt description. And they're pretty important in building your dance resume...which is pretty important if you'd like to dance for a living at a later stage in life.
Now, she's 12. It's hardly a career move at this point. She auditioned for a prestigious one just for the experience and landed a spot almost accidentally. We wrestled with the decision as this is for girls between 12 and 18. That's a pretty big gap.
But we think it'll be a unique and fun experience for her. Any dance resume stuff for us is just gravy. Lots of kids go to camp for two or three weeks in the summer, some for canoeing and such and others for computers or what not. So, this seemed doable from our perspective and with family 40 minutes away it became a slam dunk. So, even if it's 600 miles from Dallas it seems too good to pass up. Safe for Shelby to say that the parental planets aligned for her.
But I don't know.
When she's sewing her pointe shoe ribbons or packing her dance bag or styling her hair to get stage ready...
...or packing her own suitcase or going over her own checklist and the like...
...she seems so...
...I dunno...
...mature?
...prepared?
...self-sufficient?
...graceful?
...ready?
so...
...not young anymore?
She's packed...well, except for the stuff she's sleeping in and the iPod gadgets and such that she's using. She'll put that stuff in this morning.
She's been talking about it ever since she went to the audition and made it.
She's gone food shopping for various dorm-room type non-perishables.
What's even worse is that she's doing all this at the loathed and detested University of Alabama. Loathed and detested by those of us in the Auburn Family. I guess it's pretty well-respected by most others...and truth be known, even those in the Auburn Family loathe and detest the football program and not the university at-large.
This American Ballet Theater is borrowing my daughter for three weeks. They stay in dorms, dance during the day, eat meals together and all that. I'm guessing it's like a short-term "Fame." You remember. That school where everybody was uber-talented and they allegedly went to school during the first part of the day and then danced or sang or played music or painted the other half?
These are kinda like that, except it's all dance. All day. They're called "summer intensives" which I've heard is an apt description. And they're pretty important in building your dance resume...which is pretty important if you'd like to dance for a living at a later stage in life.
Now, she's 12. It's hardly a career move at this point. She auditioned for a prestigious one just for the experience and landed a spot almost accidentally. We wrestled with the decision as this is for girls between 12 and 18. That's a pretty big gap.
But we think it'll be a unique and fun experience for her. Any dance resume stuff for us is just gravy. Lots of kids go to camp for two or three weeks in the summer, some for canoeing and such and others for computers or what not. So, this seemed doable from our perspective and with family 40 minutes away it became a slam dunk. So, even if it's 600 miles from Dallas it seems too good to pass up. Safe for Shelby to say that the parental planets aligned for her.
But I don't know.
When she's sewing her pointe shoe ribbons or packing her dance bag or styling her hair to get stage ready...
...or packing her own suitcase or going over her own checklist and the like...
...she seems so...
...I dunno...
...mature?
...prepared?
...self-sufficient?
...graceful?
...ready?
so...
...not young anymore?
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