June 5th-6th

Pencils and Pink

The beginning of my weekend was a birthday trip to Netherlands with friends, a train ride to Cologne to Alex’s house, and then waking up early on Saturday morning for my SAT Subject Tests. I was taking them in Düsseldorf, a city I had never been in. I sat through three hours of German, Math, and Spanish. Grammar of two foreign languages ran through my head. I took the math test, while thinking in Germany and messing up the ever confusing decimals and commas that have different meanings in different languages. I filled in the bubbles on my scantron and turned in my test. Done with learning before I left.

Here's my ballet recital. I picked this center photo for you so you can see the MASS of glitter that I had everywhere. This was such a different recital than any other one I've ever been in. I got there early in the afternoon, got ready, and then had tons of time. Also, when we were getting ready, everything was so much more fun. We were throwing on tons of glitter and doing each other's make up. Plus, my insanely bright red "Burt's Bees" chapstick was LOVED. I felt more apart of everything than any other recital. I was important. I was given face paint and told to do make up. I laughed with the 8 year olds and got them ready to be mermaids with white and blue make up on half of their face: "So are you excited? Are you happy? Tired? Hungry?" I was just having fun, talking with them. Then I danced and although I knew it wasn't the best, I was sad that it was over. But I was quickly running downstairs and getting a group of 12 year olds ready to dance! They were excited, because I was from America. Then when they were ready, I went to back to the 8 year olds and talked and lead conversations and joked. All of the little girls were asking me how to say certain phrases in English then they would tell me, smiling: "You're funny." "You're pretty!" I smiled and said very pronounced: “Thank you!