Andrew Lloyd Webber= LOVE!

I am a HUGE, GIGANTIC musical theatre geek. I want to have a career in musical theatre so badly! And American Idol tonight, just made my life! The final 6 were singing Andrew Lloyd Webber songs!

I have loved that man since a very young age. When I was 5 years old, I used to dance around my house singing all the music from The Phantom of the Opera. My grandma had bought my mom the cassette tapes, and she would play them. I learned all the words! For my birthday that year my mom asked me what kind of party I wanted to have, etc. I told her that I didn't want a party. I then demanded that I wanted to see the Phantom live! haha. I was 5! So for my birthday I got my wish, and I got all dressed up in my nice dress, hat, and white gloves with white ankle socks and patent leather dress shoes. We sat very close to the stage, and I was right underneath the chandelier when it dropped! Of course though, I was sitting in a booster seat, annoying everyone around me as I was singing all the songs. haha. And I'm sure not very quietly.

So anyways, tonight on American Idol made my life! I want to be in a Broadway play, or in an off Broadway play. Once that happens ( and it will! haha) my life will be complete!!! I admire Andrew so much! I think he is an absolute genius! There aren't many people in the world like him!! Ooh Andrew, all I feel for you is pure love!

Here comes the sun....

So I am offically DONE SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!! I had my last day of classes on Thursday. Yesterday, the dance departent had a pizza party and talent showcase for all the programs, and it gave us a chance to say goodbye to the girls graduating. It was a lot of fun, and gave us time to just have fun as people and not just as dancers. haha!

With the warm weather, I have been getting out of my shell and take in Toronto. I have been going out most nights, and touring around different areas of Toronto. It has been a lot of fun! Today my roomate Jess and I went downtown, and walked most of downtown! We went shopping and went out for lunch. It was a lot of fun, and we got to enjoy the beautiful sunshine!

I am excited for this Friday, because I am performing in a show at one of the biggest theatres in Toronto!(I am not naming the theatre due to privacy reasons) We are also performing with a live orchastera. It is going to be a great experience, and give me a taste of really being a professional dancer!

Anyways, that is all for now! Everyone... enjoy the sunshine!!!! :)

Almost Done

So last night was the final show for George Brown Dance. It didn't really make me sad or anything, seeing as I have another year left with another show at the end of next year. It was a good experience overall, and I was happy to have my family there. I had a surprise from one of my old dance teachers coming! She brought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers as well. It was great!

Now I have one more week of class left, and then I am offically done! Well, I have one more show on the 25th, but that wont require any class time. It is nice to think that I am basically done!

I have been feeling kind of sad lately, becuase I am going to be living in Toronto for the summer. It will be my first summer not being at home and it makes me sad, because I am going to be a huge loner! I am excited to be in the city and stuff, but with no one here... it breaks me heart! Hopefully I can find some fun, cheap things to do and make some friends....I dont know where, but somewhere!

Im also very sorry that the spacing is really messed up on the last blog. SORRY!

Meeting my best friend

So my best friend Christy has also suggested, me writing about how we met.

I will write this down, as long as there is no judgements passed to either one of us. hahaha. It is a little bit of a crazy story, but anyways... here it goes. I'm also sorry if this is crazy long, which I have a feeling it will be! haha

So two years ago last July, my boyfriend at the time was leaving on a full time mission for our church. We had been dating for about 9 months at the time, so it was a big life changing thing, and we weren't really sure what was going to happen once he got back, or what we should do for the time that he was gone. So we decided that we would write eachother, and continue to be a support to eachother for the two years, and just stay as close of friends as we could.So basically I was technically, ''waiting for him'', which now I think is a really dumb term, but that is my opinion, haha. I was doing pretty good with keeping busy for the first few months that he was gone. I had graduated from high school, but I was working and of course keeping busy with dancing. I did though come into contact with a very addicting website called......MYSPACE.

I didn't really understand how myspace worked at all, but my sister helped me make an account and add my friends that I knew that had it at the time. One day, about two years ago January, I was feeling really sorry for myself. A lot of my friends from high school had moved away for university or college, and I had taken a year off. And friends from church were either on missions, or had moved away. I was really missing my missionary, and for some reason decided to type into the search engine on myspace, "lds missionaries''. Well low and behold a page came up called, ''I love my missionary". I decided to add this page to my friendlist, and didn't really think anything else of it. A few days later, I was accepted to the page and started to read comments from girls all over the United States, Australia, and other countries who were waiting for a missionary. I couldn't believe it! It was so exciting to see so many girls in the same position as me! There were different sections on the site that included package ideas to send missionaries, talks to read, uplifting scriptures, etc. It was just a very positive place to log into everyday. I was always uplifted, and felt a deep connection to the girls on this site. We all came from different backgrounds, and even different countries but we all just got eachother.

I became close with a few of the girls from the site, one girl in particular. She was a student at BYU- Utah, but was taking some time off to help her sister and husband out in Michigan with their new baby. She was originally from Washington though. We had a lot in common, just from talking online. Our missionaries left around the same time, we had similiar situations with our missionaries, and we basically had the same personality, haha. After a few MSN conversations, we decided to take the plunge and call eachother. We were both kind of sketched out because we had never met eachother, and yes... we met on myspace, but we clicked, and we made it a weekly thing to talk on the phone about letters we received, trials we were going through etc. Throughout the following months I also became close with a lot of the girls, we would always talk to eachother online about our missionaries, it was so great!

That summer, my family and I were planning a pretty big family vacation. We hadn't been on a vacation for about 9 years, and my parents definetely deserved it! We decided that we wanted to go to California, drive to Nevada to go to Las Vegas and then drive to Utah! My sister was going to be going to EFY with a sister of a past missionary that served in our ward, so everything worked out well. I was too old to attend EFY so my parents asked me if I wanted to stay in Utah for an extra week or something, and see if a friend of mine wanted to come with me. I didn't have any friends that were able to do so, but I totally wanted to stay in Utah for that week! So I had the bright idea of asking my good ol missionary gal pal when she was going to be back in Utah! She was going to be heading back to Utah a week before I was to get there, so she offered for me to stay with her, and we would just hang out for the week. We were both so excited, and the next day my parents booked my flight to come home a week later. It was going to be my first time going to Utah so I was super excited in the first place, but I was also excited to meet this new friend of mine.

Anyways, as time grew closer, my friend cancelled at the last minute due to a family emergency back in Washington! I really wasn't sure what I was going to do. The only people that I knew well enough in Utah were all returned missionaries, and I didn't really feel comfortable asking if I could stay with them for a week! haha. So I went to my trusted page of amazing, waiting girls. And I posted a post saying something like...''I know this is weird, but I was wondering if anyone had a place that I could stay for a week in the next couple of weeks.'' I wasn't very hopeful that anyone would take a stab at it, seeing as we had never met eachother. But, someone did! And boy was I ever grateful for that!

The creator of the site, Christy posted saying that she was going to be moving to Utah a week before I was to arrive there, and that she was living with her sister and her brother in law in their house, which just happened to have an extra available bedroom. She was orignally from Boston MA, and decided that it was the right time to take a big step and move completely! Her town was lacking church members, and she wanted to imerse herself in LDS culture. Christy and I hadn't really talked a lot on the site, but I always saw her posts about her and her missionary and knew that she was a nice person. She sent me a message with her phone number, so that we could talk and make sure that eachother weren't creepers. So I got up the guts and called her. We talked for only a few minutes, it was kind of awkward, but we discussed what needed to be discussed, and that was that. I left a few days later for California with my family, not knowing what to really expect when I was to arrive in Utah. Also, before I left the girls who were from Utah decided to plan what we called, a ''Girls night out'', or ''GNO''. We planned to all meet up at temple square in Salt Lake City, and then go to the Joseph Smith movie afterwards. There were about 20 girls that confirmed that they would go, which was unbelievable!

So I got to Utah. I called Christy before travelling to Provo to meet her, and her sister. My parents were trying to act cool, attempting to trust me in this really messed up situation. I will never forget first meeting her. I had no idea what to expect,and all we knew of eachother was from myspace. I totally recognized her though of course, from her pictures! haha. So we met, hugged... and my mom met her and met her sister. I said goodbye to my parents and sister, and said a little prayer that everything would be okay! It was kind of strange at first, we didn't really know what to say to eachother. I had brought some gifts for her and her sister from Canada, so we discussed what Canada was like, and how the church is in Canada. Then we got onto our missionaries, and of course talked about them for a while. But after a while, it seemed that we had known eachother for years. We were very comfortable with eachother, and it was very normal. AFter our first night, we both went to bed, feeling a whole heck of a lot better that we had met eachother... and Im sure she was happy that I wasn't a crazy axe murderer.

We did so much during the week. Everyday was so exciting!!!! We went to church bookstores, shopping, for drives around Provo. When it came to the day for our GNO, we were feeling very mixed emotions. We were incredibly excited to meet all the girls in person, but we were also scared that it was going to be terribly awkward! haha. We were meeting up with two of the girls from Provo, and drove to Salt Lake together. The girls were amazing! We had such a good time driving to Salt Lake, and they were feeling the same way about meeting everyone! haha. When we finally got to temple square, there were a bunch of girls standing infront of the reflection pool, and of course we recognized them all! Everyone was so nice! E veryone instantly clicked, it was incredible! So we all walked around temple square, and then we got some dinner, and then went to the Joseph Smith movie. People were staring at us as we were all together, and a few asked how we all knew eachother, and we just simply laughed not really knowing what to say! AFter the movie was finished, we decided to do a photoshoot! And luckily I had my camera! We took sooooooooooooooooooooooo many pictures! And the pictures look like we have been friends our whole lives! Needless to say it was one of the best nights of my life. I made so many new friends, and experienced a very spiritual experience with amazing girls! Christy and I stayed up for a majority of the night talking about it afterwards when we got home.

The next day was the second last day before I went home. A few of the girls from the website met up with Christy and I and we went bowling in Provo. It was so much fun! Then afterwards, we drove to the Provo temple and took pictures there. With the MTC right across the street from the temple, we took pictures infront of the sign, seeing as the MTC brought us all together, haha.

The next day, my last day... Christy and I decided that we wanted to do baptisms in the Salt Lake Temple! We both had not had the opportunity to go to that temple before, so we were both so excited. We were able to go and do baptisms with youth from a nearby ward, which was great! Christy and I were so excited, and were both crying watching eachother being baptised for someone on the other side of the veil. We were on such a spiritual high that we called the Provo temple on the way home to see if we could do baptisms then as well! We also got two of the girls from GNO to meet up with us and go with us! It was once again, one of the best days of my life. The spirit was so strong throughout the whole day, and I loved every second of it.

Going home was a very hard thing to do. I really wanted to stay longer, but I knew that I would be back to Utah soon enough. Christy and I shed our tears, and I got on the plane and flew back to Canada. We continued to talk almost everyday after that. I then planned another trip to Utah and went back the following February. This time I stayed for two weeks, and it was also amazing! I also met Christy's soon to be husband( who was not her missionary just PS).

There are so many memories that I have because of meeting Christy. She will always be such a large part of my life, because a lot of who I am today is because of joining that myspace page, and meeting all the wonderful, amazing girls on it! I didnt end up waiting the full two years for my missionary, but we are still good friends and that is all that counts for me.

I'm sorry that this was so long, but there were so many details leading up to meeting eachother, that I couldn't leave them out!

I love you Christy!!!!!! Piglet and Ratling are eternal!:)

Memorable Words

So I decided to write somethings down that I think are important to me.

Shopgirl gave me some ideas, so I am going to go with some of them.

There are many poems, sayings, or even just sentences that have stuck with me through my life.

One in particular is the poem, "In Flanders Fields". I have a very strong connection to war. My grandpa on my mom's side was a prisnor of war during World War Two. He was captured after landing on the beach at Dieppe, and was in the camp for three solid, long years. After many horrible days, and grusome experiences, and many escape attempts on different accounts, he made it out of the camp with the help of some allied American soldiers, AND lived to tell about it.

When I was a kid, he used to always recall stories from the war, and he would discuss every detail as if it had happened the day before. My mom and him had discussed many times about writing a book about his experiences, and one day they did! It was titled, "Destined to Survive", and it went on to be a Canadian best seller.

Anyways, to make a long story short! haha..the poem "In Flanders Fields" always made me think of stories that my grandpa would tell me as a kid. The lines that especially get me are...

''In Flanders Fields the poppies grow, between the crosses row on row."

This always stuck out to me, because I could just imagine the graves of so many innocent people, soldiers especially that were killed during battle for their country. And how many of the graves were those of an "unknown solider''. Blah, so sad.

Anyways, that is something that is important to me. And I thought I would write about it.

On a side note, the video for the song "4 minutes'' by Madonna and Justin Timberlake just premiered on TV, which I didn't know, and I am currently watching it. I am going to say that it wasn't my favourite video, but Justin dances in it, and I am always mesmorized by his dancing. Haha. So I will give it a 7 out of 10.

and another side note! They are showing Justin Timberlake's concert "The Future/Sex Love/Sounds'' tour on muchmusic right now. I am such a JT fan, and saw his concert twice last year in Toronto, so I am basically on cloud 9 right now reliving two of the best nights of my life! hahah. Wow, I need a life. IM BRINGIN SEXY BACK:)

What would you like to know?

So I know I have written a lot about dance lately...but what can I say... I am a dancer!!

So I've decided that I want to write things that my friends out there will want to read about.

What are somethings that you would like to know?

xo

Crunch Time

So today was a good day. I handed in my last paper of the year! YAAAAAY!! It was such a relief to hand it in. So now it is just down to my rehersals for my show! Next week we don't have classes, instead we are in the theatre having tech runs and working with the lighting directors and things like that.

So I am keeping busy busy busy.

That's about all for now.

Counting down the days..

So this weekend has been constantly stressful! I have three major papers due this week. And due to my crazy schedule, dancing 40 hours a week it is hard to balance doing homework and sleeping! haha. So I have almost two of my papers done, and my last one is for my elective class and will be due on Wednesday.

Blah, just need to get them done!

Anyways, I have my last week of stress coming up. I have a rehearsal tonight, extra ones all throughout the week as well as my classes, and exams in my major classes. I have my ballet and pointe exam on Friday. Oh well. Our show is in a week and a bit, April 11 and 12. It is a scary thought that this year is basically over!

Anyways, enough of that. I just downloaded studio recordings of two of my favourites on American Idol. David Cook singing an acoustic version of Billie Jean, and my girl Brooke White singing Let It Be. Oh how I love this show this season!

Dannnnce

So today marks 4 weeks left of school! It is so exciting, yet I'm terrified. Our final show of the year is April 11 and 12th, and not all of our pieces of choreography are finished. It's a little nerveracking, but it will all come together. Everything always does.

Today was a good day though. We have a ballet exam coming up in 2 weeks, so we worked on everything that we are going to be performing in our exam. I think I know everything now, which is good! I think exams in dance are fabulous, because it really challenges your mind to put certain techniques into your muscle memory. Our exam, is just exercises that my ballet teacher has put together. I have done exams in different syllabus' for ballet and jazz, so doing an exam, where it is not a set syllabus is strange, but really challenges me.

I am very excited because The Hills is on in 45 minutes!!!! It is a sad and guilty pleasure, and is not the most intelligent show... but the theme song gets me going!!! haha

xo

Home!!!

So I am finally home for a much deserved three day weekend. I love long weekends.And I love being home, even though I completely adore my apartment, my amazing roomate, and living in the city. Before I headed back to the B dot, I spent some time with my dad at my grandpa's house(who is passed on). My family and I have been sorting, and cleaning out his house since his death in October. We are thinking that his house will be on the market sometime in the next two weeks, so my dad and I were cleaning the upstairs tonight. It felt so weird cleaning my grandparents house. The closets are now empty, everything is spotless. It felt weird, like they never lived there. But I kept feeling like they would be happy with what we have done with their beloved house.

Something kind of cool happened while we were there. My mom's mother, who passed away in 2001, loved the song ''I just called to say I love you'' by Stevie Wonder. When I was a kid, my mom (who was/is a tv producer) decided to make a video for her for her birthday, with all of her 9 grandchildren singing the song. The song has always had a special place in my heart, because it always seems to come on the radio when I have had a bad day and need a pick me up. So tonight my dad put on my grandparents old radio, and we were cleaning away, when the song came on the radio! It was great, because I hadn't heard it for a long time. When the song finished, the phone rang. It was perfect timing! haha. I picked up the phone said, ''hello?'' and no one was there. I don't know what that meant or if someone really was on the other line, but it gave me a chance to remember my grandma and have a laugh while I was at it.

On the drive home with my dad, we once again were listening to the radio. We had it on a radio station that had a show on called, ''Songs that are your guilty pleasures''. Some of the songs people were requesting were so funny. The song ''Barbie Girl'' came on, and I got sooooo into it and was singing away to it, while my dad was probably very scared. It was fun! Another song that was played was, '' Good Vibrations'' by Marky Mark!!!!!! My heart was content after hearing that. And I am currently listening to it as I write this. Got to love the oldies.

xo

Easter Weekend!

So tonight I went to see a play for my acting class at school. It was called, ''A Man of no Importance". It wasn't what I was expecting, but it was ok. I guess I need to be more open to the art of acting. Because I am a performer myself, I am very critical on things that I watch, whether it be acting, singing or of course dance. But overall it was good. The actors were quite amazing actually, it was just the story that was a little sketch to me.

I am also very excited for tomorrow night, because I will be going home for Easter weekend! I can't wait! Blah....I'm almost done the year, but long weekends like this realistically keep me sane, and keep me going!!!!

Blogging if fun:)

4 weeks left!!!

So today started off another week at school. It was exciting though because we only have 4 weeks left!!!!!! I never thought I would be as happy as I am, thinking about that thought. I love dancing and all, but having a break from it everyday is going to be glorious! We have our last two shows at the beginning on April, and another at the end of April. So lots of performing which is great as well.

I really want to figure out how to post pictures on here, so if there are any ways to help, please let me know! haha

I have been thinking a lot lately about spring, and how happy the change in weather makes me. On my walks home from the subway at night after school, around 7pm, it is still sunny and beautiful outside!!!! It is so nice for it to be like that. Summer is fastly approaching! And I love it!!!!

New to blogging

Well, I gave in. My best friend Christy convinced me to make a blog! I feel strange, because everyone that I know of who has a blog, is married. And well...I am definetely not. haha. But this will be a good chance for people to know what I am up to in my life!! So I will fill those of you in, who will be reading this.

I have been out of high school now for three years. I took a year off after school, continued dancing and worked at a dance studio. I feel like it was a great move for me, because it gave me time to try and figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. I applied to a few universities for the following year and got into a few programs. I decided to go with a psychology program at Laurentian University. The good thing about the program was that it was offered through Georgian College in Barrie, so I could live at home and save money!! I was so happy to be able to stay at home, while still obtaining my education.

I had an awesome time being at school. I made a lot of amazing friends, and learned a lot about myself as well. Throughout the year a lot of life changing moments happened for me, so it will be always be a year that I will remember.

One of the amazing things that I did, was travel to Utah with one of my best friends John, and his friend Mike. I was already planning on going to Utah to visit my best friend Christy, but the boys were planning a trip as well so we decided to go together!!! It was so much fun. I loved being with Christy. I stayed for two weeks and loved every second of it! Christy planned so many amazing things for us to do, we were never bored!!! It was sooo amazing!!!!!

Another thing that happened in the year was, I got to go to New York City!!!! Going there has been a dream of mine since I was a kid, because I am such an arts geek! I would always tell my parents how much I wanted to go to broadway, and it happened!!!! I went to the ''Pulse'' workshop, which included teachers and choreographers from so you think you can dance. It was amazing, I got to see a lot of amazing dancers, as well as challenge myself with new styles and choreography. A couple hi lights from that trip were meeting Shane Sparks and Mia Michaels, and getting to see my first broadway show, ''Chicago''!

In August of 2007, I decided that I wanted to surprise my best friend Christy, at her wedding reception in Boston. She was married on August 15th, but I was too poor to make it to her wedding. So myself, John and my sister travelled the 11 hour car ride to Boston! It was a lot of fun driving and see all of New York State and then driving into MA.

Earlier that month, I decided that I wanted to audition for a post secondary dance program. I auditioned for George Brown Dance, (George Brown College) and was accepted! I found myself having to figure out a lot of life changing plans very quickly, like... moving to Toronto! My friend Jessica was also looking to move to Toronto for school, and wanted a roomate, so we went apartment hunting together and finally found the perfect place! We couldn't move in until October 1st, so for the month of September I was going to be living at my grandpa's house.

I was very excited to be living with him. My grandpa was a very funny person, and we got a long very well. The first week I was living there, we were eating dinner, when he started to feel very ill. He went very pale and crouched over on the kitchen chair. He told me he was unable to breath so I got him to the couch in the front room. I called his family doctor, who thankgoodness lived down the street. He came over and said that he was having a mild heartattack and needed to get to the hospital ASAP. He was then in the hospital for a month, before being put into pallative care. On October 23rd he passed away. It was a very hard time in my life, because I had just moved out 20 days earlier, and was in a new program, in a new city, and now my last grandparent was gone. But I made it through, and am still trying to be strong.

Life right now is just crazy busy. School is over in a month, and there is still so much to be done. Rehearsals on top of rehearsals, seeing plays, musicals, auditions, eating, sleeping. It is crazy. But it is what I LOVE more than anything, so I wouldn't trade it for the world!!!

I will post pictures once I figure out how to do so. I hope you all enjoy!

-D xo