Blues Clues!!! (A Childhood Favorite)

 When I found out I had to write a blog post about my favorite childhood  TV show, I thought of Blues Clues without hesitation. I had a small obsession with this show from when I was about three or four, to kindergarten (when I had a new obsession: Hannah Montana). I had a blues clues backpack, a few blues clues stuffed animals, and a few blues clues    books. The picture on the left was my absolute favorite book. It was about Blue's thanksgiving feast, and I had to "help Blue set the table". I asked my parents to read it to me so much, that it got to the point where they had to hide it from me! One time, my sister was sick with strep throat. I remember going to Walgreen's with my dad and getting her a stuffed animal of Magenta, another character. I think I only got it for her because I wanted it myself. :) Magenta was always my favorite because she was pink, and she celebrated Hanukkah. :) Magenta had glasses, and she sang a song about it called, "Now that I've got glasses". It was my favorite song. Here's a link to it. I'm very surprised by how much I remember about this. 

By the way, everything started going downhill when Steve went to college and Joe took his place. :)

Miss Abby (Where I see myself in 10 years)

  I want to be a teacher when I grow up. I have always wanted to be a teacher. I started playing school with my pretend class in kindergarten, and now I plan out how I am going to do certain things based on what I experience at my school. I think about what I love, and what I know I would change if I could. Now, going back to when I was younger, the names of my pretend students were quite interesting. Some of them were just the names of people that I knew, and some were just a lot of gibberish. Some examples of the very odd ones are Sepilacka (pronounced sheep-oo-lock-uh), Zooz (pronounced like the plural of zoo), and Zoz (like the wizard of Oz with a Z). I won't give examples of the names that I got from people in my class at the time, because I don't want to be creepy. :)
       I'm not exactly sure how I will do this yet, but I really want to somehow incorporate dance and music into my career. These have become more than just a hobby for me. They have become a passion, and I can't imagine just stopping after high school. As I said, I'm not sure how I'm going to keep these going after high school, but I intend to. (And no, I do not want to combine teaching and singing and become a music teacher. I want to teach third or fifth grade.)
      And last but not least; this is a little bit sooner than 10 years, but I am looking forward to the end of the year this year. I am hoping to receive the National Choral Award at the eighth grade awards assembly this year. I have been in chorus since I was third grade, and show chorus since fifth. I love to sing, and I'm hoping that when the chorus votes on who will get the award, I will win.

My Blog Buddy!

I have my blog buddy now! I am very excited, because I got a really awesome person. Her name is Jessica R. Here's a link to her blog! Go read it and comment! You will be in awe of her excellence! :)

The Most Suspenseful Vacation

  Every year, I go to the Wisconsin Dells with my friend Eden and her family. We always go to the Wilderness Resort, and our favorite ride is the Hurricane. It starts out pitch black, then it gradually gets lighter, and before you realize what's going on, there is a huge drop! It's so steep that the inner tube is flying in the air! Sorry I'm using so many exclamation points, I'm just really excited to be telling you about this! Anyway, it's a four person inner tube, but it is a two-four person water slide (depending on the weight of the person). After the drop, you are in a gargantuan (vocab word!) cone shaped thing toilet seat room-like place. It's really hard to describe. Look at the video I'm linking to this sentence. You move back and forth until you come out the other side. Eden and I have been on it 22 times.
     So, we were in line for the hurricane on January 1, 2016 with our dads. We were there at night, so the Hurricane was dark inside, because the light was natural. Our dads were talking about how we scream way too much on the Hurricane. Eden's dad said that he would buy us a pound of candy from the store we had been begging them to take us to if we were completely silent the whole time. My dad said, "Oh, there's no way they can do that." Eden's dad said, "You're right. Let's make it ten pounds!" My dad said,"No, let's keep it at one." It is an approximately thirty minute line each time, so we had plenty of time to work out the small details. From the second the lifeguard touched our inner tube to push us down, to the second the lifeguard at the bottom grabbed out tube, we couldn't make a single peep. Eden and I were both really nervous that we would ruin it for each other.
     It was eventually our turn, and we got in the inner tube. We didn't make a single noise the entire time, but my dad was screaming his head off! :) Our dads were surprised that we actually did it, and our sisters were mad when we came back to the hotel room with a half a pound of candy each!

The Best Quotes In The Entire World

I found this quote while searching Google for something

awesome. But, even though my method seems effortless, I

immediately chose this one when I saw it, because it applies

to me perfectly. I think that all of the singers out there can

relate to it as well. Singing gets me through every emotion there is.

I sing when I'm happy, sad, excited, and angry. This may seem 

fake, but it actually helps me feel a lot better. I think that this

quote reflects this perfectly. (Also, I like the sheet music in

the background.:) )

This quote is definitely one of my favorites. I discovered it while listening to a song, because it is actually a lyric in "Keep Your Head Up" by Andy Grammer. This quote describes how you have to get through all of the bad situations in life in order to reach the good ones. This quote is very similar to the quote, "This too shall pass". These two quotes help me get through difficult times, because they help me remember that I only have to put up with it for a little bit longer, and my situation will improve very soon.

As you know from reading my about me, (cough, cough, read it) I love to dance. So, my first thought when I read this quote was, "So it isn't just me." I'll explain this further for all of the non-dancers. If a person is truly passionate about dancing, then they lose themselves in the movement. Dancing isn't just dancing! It releases this feeling that temporarily takes you out of reality, to a world where nothing matters. A world where all you have to do is dance, and feel the movement and emotion within you. This is the reason that Contemporary is my favorite type of dance. It isn't because the moves look cool. (Well, partly because the moves look cool.) It's because Contemporary has no limits. The choreography can go wherever you take it. When I'm doing a Contemporary dance, I truly feel free. Click here for the song my favorite contemporary dance was to. You may recognize it. :)

This quote relates to the last one a little bit. I like this quote, because it recognizes something that most people overlook: You must be an athlete to dance. Dance is a sport. I wish it were an Olympic one. And no, gymnastics is not in any way the same. Only a true dancer, or a very well-informed person know that. Dance takes the exact same amount of athleticism (if not more) than other sports. Dance is not just a useless sport where sweaty guys beat each other up to throw an oddly shaped brown thing through a weird U. Dance is beautiful, and dance is meaningful. Dance is a sport and an art. Which leads into my next point. Anyone can do the disco, and anyone can do the sprinkler. Anybody can dance, but only a dancer can make it as meaningful, and full of emotion as it should be. It takes an athlete to dance, an artist to be a dancer, but both to be a good one.