Talent Show

Uh, I'm so frustrated. I set my account on blogger (or whatever you call it) to the new look, but it still has this weird type setting and when I press the bold button or load a picture it just puts the code instead of the pictures of making the words bold. It's so annoying and it's very frustrating, but that's not what I wanted to post about. I have three main points to post about. Our talent show, my birthday and Grandma's visit. So I think I'm going to give each of these points their own post just because. So here I go.

So, at our co-op there was a talent show and Anna and I signed up to sing a song. We were searching for a song to sing and we found Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof and thought it was really pretty. Even if we have never seen the movie and in the movie parents are singing it so it doesn't fit us at all. But then we saw the song Sisters from White Christmas in the songbook we were looking at and thought it was perfect. So we wrote in the parts that Judy sings and the part Betty sings and had Anna practice the harmony that Judy sings. We did a bit of choreography and everything. We practiced with markers for microphones and on the Sunday before the show Mom had us sing it for anyone that came into the house (which was a YW leader and two home teachers) to get us over our nerves. I'm not sure how singing it more than necessary would get us over our nerves, but that's what we did.

So, at WISH (the co-op) on Tuesday we practiced at lunch with a little audience of kids (that did not make me feel better) and we practiced with the microphones. There was a little whoopteedo when you couldn't hear me over Anna even though during practice I was louder than her. It was probably because I felt weird with the microphone and sang softer than usual. Anyway, during all the classes after class I was a nervous wreck. And then in my last class, Life Skills, I was asked to introduce two acts in the Talent Show. I was supposed to, oh! Mom fixed it.  Blogger's right again.  Okay, anyway, I was supposed to improvise and talk about the people and their acts while they set up.  Ironically I got the two that took the longest to set up and I didn't know anything about them.  So, while I was worrying about finding out things about the people doing the acts that I was introducing I was running around looking for my mom while trying to keep my bra straps under my sleeves.  In the room where the talent show was people were running around and setting up and it was just chaos.  When the show started the sound system kept breaking and overall the show took over an hour.  My first introduction was for a tumbling act.  I snatched at anything to talk about.  Someone in the crowd said that they loved hamburgers and I talked about burgers for 5 minutes after that.  Mom says I did a good job, but I honestly don't remember much of it.  The second time I introduced something I started to say something and then kind of gave up and stopped talking.  So, someone else took over.  That was after we sang and I was just a wreck.  We did good with the singing and nothing bad really happened.  I'm not really sure what it was.  But by the time we left I was ready to take off my dress and high heels and go home and cry.  Mom said it was probably the disorganization because I don't deal well with that.  But if I am to get anywhere in life I can't break down anytime there's disorganization.  So, hopefully I'll get over that.

Overall, it was pretty good I suppose.  I just don't know what got into me.  Oh, well.  Better time next time. :)