My Shpeel.

Ya know, it has kind of been a year of set backs.
Especially in dance, it seemed like everything kept me from progressing.
My 4 ingrown toenails would yell at me from the floor and tell me to stop dancing; it hurt them.
My torn hamstring made me limp for days and then lose my flexibility.

I'm lucky that this year I have been at my new studio, BSOB. It is much more professional and even happier there. It didn't take long to feel comfortable there, even though I started out hating my teachers. Now I love them to death! There are hundreds of other students, yet, I feel their individual care and want for me to succeed.

There were so many times I came home after dance and cried because I felt so incapable. My body just couldn't handle it and I wanted to dance so badly. I had made it into a Pointe dance at my high school and was set on quitting..... I couldn't do it. But for reasons I guess I can see more clearly now, I stayed. I'm the only girl there who isn't a vykelle and no one knows me or talks to me, yet I love it! I have started to feel like a dancer. And that means a lot to me.

Anyways, after feeling so incompotent and depressed this last winter, one of my dance teachers really started to ask about my toes and my leg. I quote, "Girl, you are falling apart!"
Love her. And after deciding to surgically remove my ingrown toenails (can't wait for MAY!) and keep working on my leg, I felt better.

But then today she pulled me aside into a classroom and while she sternly looked me in the eye, she told me I need to commit to taking the summer program and that I'd be alone and asked if I'd be okay with that. That may seem like nothing to you, but from her to me that means that I have potential and she wants me to work hard because I can get there. I am good but I can be even better! I can live on that compliment for 2 months.

In short, things are looking up. Set backs are set backs, but they make you stronger. I know it.