Ma Gurls

Today was head-shot day for the dance production in May (here's a picture of my first-year class).

I'm so excited about it... the dance show, that is. I've not even been to many dance recitals or productions in my life, but I think this is going to be a really good show. I even think we might sell-out for both nights which makes me very very excited and a TAD nervous.

Our Christmas recital seems like nothing to me now compared to this May show... we'll be doing all our dance pieces from our classes, plus the dances that the 10 full-time students have each choreographed themselves. I keep on thinking... 'hmmm... am I going to walk-away from these nights excited or embarrassed?' I think it was a mingling of both for the Christmas recital, though pulling together 8 choreographies in my first 3 months of dancing was a bit of a different story.

The girls looked so beautiful for their head-shots today, and I found myself thinking how sad it is that it'll all be ending for the summer soon. There were times in the cold winter freezes that I wanted it all to end... it being cold all the time, having busy schedules, God bringing-up all our crap, but now, in Springtime, it seems like it's becoming Springtime in our lives, too. We're overcoming. We've seen beautiful, real friendships grow. We've cried, we've got mad, we've laughed, we've danced, and now here comes the culmination of the whole year of time together into 2 nights that we'll put all our powers of performing energy into. Wow. Exciting. Crazy. Sad. Good. Fulfilling. Scary. Amazing.