Dance, CYC and Other Stuff

This is a guest blog by a good friend of mine. Her name is Hannah. She is a twelve year old girl who loves to dance. She finds me and her brother Elijah weird, strange, crazy, etc., etc., etc, which we are, but more on that never. Hope you enjoy Hannah's post.

The introduction is accurate. Let me tell you a little bit about my family. My brother's a goof ball. My Mom makes good soup and pies, as we all know well. My dog Judson is very fast and he's a nut ball. My Dad is totally embarassing, but kinda nice. And his dancing is terrible.

As Jordan said in the introduction I do love to dance. I have a new video game called Just Dance 2. It's my favorite video game that we have. It's kind of like video exercise except that you hold the remote and mirror the person on the screen. I also have dance classes three to four days a week. I have nine dances for my recital this year, which is on June 18. Before the recital on Wednesday and Thursday we have regular rehearsals, then on Friday we have a dress rehearsal. On Saturday we have two shows, one at 2:00 and one at 7:00. I am doing one tap dance, one ballet dance, three jazz dances, three lyrical dances and one modern. My little brother is in modern class with me. He is doing the recital with me as well.

This is my seventh year dancing and I am used to having so many dances. Last year I had eight. The most dances I had to learn in a short time was 10 dances in 4 days. Nine were at dance camp and one was for Chapel at the Christian Youth Conference which my Dad is the Dean of, but which I can't go to til I am 15. Now I am a staff brat.

I am not technically a brat that's just a name that we have. Jordan, Elijah, my friend Christina and I are all staff brats. The beach there is the best I have ever been to and I can boogie board there which I can't do anywhere else. They also have a great library which has a lot of Garfield and Calvin & Hobbes, which I love. This year we get one of the most adorable cabins I have ever seen. The room that my brother and I sleep in is purple, which I am very excited about. I love purple. We get to bring our WII, our laptops, all our WII games and my new Ipod Touch which I got for my birthday this year. We can also go almost anywhere we want within our boundaries, as long as we ask a parent, without supervision.


I am homeschooled. I am so glad I do not have to get up 6:00 in the morning to get dressed, eat breakfast and go to school. My two favorite cartoon movies are Up and The Incredibles My favorite non-cartoon movies are Stomp, The Lord of the Rings movies and Pirates of the Carribean.


Good-bye and I enjoyed doing this blog. I hope you enjoy it, too.

God bless,

Hannah









Ed. Note:
Christian Youth Conference at Ocean Park is a two week ecumenical conference for high school students held in August on the beautiful southern coast of Maine. The theme for the 2011 conference is "Face to Face" and will look at restoring relationships between God and individuals, and amongst people. Click here for more information.

Africa

I went to Africa, and here is a little bit about Africa. Technically it was specifically Kenya and in Kenya it was specifically in Kisumu. It took three planes to get there. One to London where we had a 14 hour layover with my Dad's family. I slept through most of it though because I didn't sleep on the plane. Then one to Nairobi and then one to Kisumu. It is a very hot part of the world because it is very near the Equator. And when I was there I went over the Equator twice. I also went camping. I would have gone on a Safari but I was sick that day and a few days more so I missed out on the Safari but I saw some other stuff. The weird thing about the camping place was that you slept in a tent but there was a wooden outhouse and a pingpong table. You could also play darts with actual spiky darts you don't want to get hit by. You could also play Twister and other games I think. I'm not sure though. It's been a while. Four years approximately. But I know definitely we had a barbecue in a big stone thing about 20 feet from the tents and I believe there was a big wire elephant.

We went to Africa because we have some friends there who are missionaries and we were going to stay with them. I forgot to mention I went to a school for street boys there. It was an experience. Mostly I stayed home while Mom and Dad were on the streets with real street boys. But sometimes there were exceptions. Like sometimes the Dad of the missionary kids took me to swimming pools but a lot of the time I was on the computer playing games with him.

While we were there one of the missionary kids lost a molar. There was lots and lots of blood. In the sink mostly.

We also rode a boda-boda and before that we saw a chameleon in the road and we met some soapstone carvers who carved some soapstone for us.


Kwa heri


Have you ever been to Africa? Please let me know.



Jordan