Insomniatic Dreams - S.J.D. Howson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Switched - Amanda Hocking
Torn - Amanda Hocking
Ascend - Amanda Hocking
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
My goals for the year (so far):
- Read more books.
- Keep track of the books I read.
- Make new friends.
- Make a scrapbook.
- Post 100 videos on YouTube.
- Learn a seemingly useless but entertaining skill (boomerang, perhaps?)
- Write and produce a song.
- Learn to say "please", "thank you", and "you're welcome" in 7 new languages.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
It's A Small World After All.
I know it's been too long since my last post. I live a busy life, as you'll soon see. Since I'm trapped in the car for several more hours, I decided to take the opportunity to blog on my nice 3G Amzon Kindle that I got for Christmas. I've accomplished some pretty awesome things in the last two weeks. I've given my IB Spanish oral presentation, which I believe went very well, and I've given my IB Theory of Knowledge presentation. I'll blog abut those later.
The reason for my absence everywhere but Twitter is due to the fact that I've been at Disney World without a computer or internet since Saturday. Unlike a significant percentage of the people at the parks, I wasn't running away from Mardi Gras. (Seriously, you wouldn't believe how many Louisianians were running away from Mardi Gras. I have never seen so much LSU and Notre Dame gear in one place, outside of Louisiana. I don't blame them. If I lived that close to New Orleans, I'd run away too.) I was there, along with the rest of my dance academy's performing company, to perform.
This isn't the first time my company has performed at Disney World. They performed back in 2007 on the Magic Kingdom Tomorrowland stage. I didn't perform with them that time, but my sister did, so of course I was there to see that performance. While the performance went well, the audience was little more than the people we had brought with us. It wasn't exactly what we were hoping for. The stage is pretty much the reason for our lack of spectators. Although the stage itself was nice, it was in the worst location. It was located in an obscured corner of Tomorrowland between the Carousel of Progress and the Buzz Lightyear ride. For those of you who don't know, Tomorrowland is where the famous Space Mountain rollercoaster is located. That rollercoaster is the reason why people go to Tomorrowland, despite the fact that it is notorious for its two hour peak wait time and its distibution of all Fast Passes within 2 hours of the park opening. Needless to say, people don't go to Tomorrowland to watch some nobody kids dance. (Another note, that stage doesn't even exist anymore.)
*** I am no longer typing on my Kindle. I broke it. Replacement comes tomorrow. ***
This year's performance was completely different. We performed at Downtown Disney on the waterfront stage, in front of a crowd of about 300. 300 people who actually stopped and watched our entire show. Besides the annoying stage flaws (that stage was NOT built for dancers), it was incredible. The audience response was fantastic. The adults thought it was great, and the kids were dancing along with us. It was a wonderful feeling, entertaining people. If it wasn't for my obvious lack of training, I could be a Disney performer. Making people happy would be a fulfilling career.
My goals for the year (so far):
- Read more books.
- Keep track of the books I read.
- Make new friends.
- Make a scrapbook.
- Post 100 videos on YouTube.
- Learn a seemingly useless but entertaining skill (boomerang, perhaps?)
- Write and produce a song.
- Learn to say "please", "thank you", and "you're welcome" in 7 new languages.
The reason for my absence everywhere but Twitter is due to the fact that I've been at Disney World without a computer or internet since Saturday. Unlike a significant percentage of the people at the parks, I wasn't running away from Mardi Gras. (Seriously, you wouldn't believe how many Louisianians were running away from Mardi Gras. I have never seen so much LSU and Notre Dame gear in one place, outside of Louisiana. I don't blame them. If I lived that close to New Orleans, I'd run away too.) I was there, along with the rest of my dance academy's performing company, to perform.
This isn't the first time my company has performed at Disney World. They performed back in 2007 on the Magic Kingdom Tomorrowland stage. I didn't perform with them that time, but my sister did, so of course I was there to see that performance. While the performance went well, the audience was little more than the people we had brought with us. It wasn't exactly what we were hoping for. The stage is pretty much the reason for our lack of spectators. Although the stage itself was nice, it was in the worst location. It was located in an obscured corner of Tomorrowland between the Carousel of Progress and the Buzz Lightyear ride. For those of you who don't know, Tomorrowland is where the famous Space Mountain rollercoaster is located. That rollercoaster is the reason why people go to Tomorrowland, despite the fact that it is notorious for its two hour peak wait time and its distibution of all Fast Passes within 2 hours of the park opening. Needless to say, people don't go to Tomorrowland to watch some nobody kids dance. (Another note, that stage doesn't even exist anymore.)
*** I am no longer typing on my Kindle. I broke it. Replacement comes tomorrow. ***
This year's performance was completely different. We performed at Downtown Disney on the waterfront stage, in front of a crowd of about 300. 300 people who actually stopped and watched our entire show. Besides the annoying stage flaws (that stage was NOT built for dancers), it was incredible. The audience response was fantastic. The adults thought it was great, and the kids were dancing along with us. It was a wonderful feeling, entertaining people. If it wasn't for my obvious lack of training, I could be a Disney performer. Making people happy would be a fulfilling career.
My goals for the year (so far):
- Read more books.
- Keep track of the books I read.
- Make new friends.
- Make a scrapbook.
- Post 100 videos on YouTube.
- Learn a seemingly useless but entertaining skill (boomerang, perhaps?)
- Write and produce a song.
- Learn to say "please", "thank you", and "you're welcome" in 7 new languages.
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