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Slowest Variation Ever

This variation was simple compared to the others but it had one little twist that made it really hard. It is extremely slow. That one element would make it seem easier but by the end of doing this I was exhausted. This variation is from Les Sylphides and is the 3rd variation. This ballet was the first artist ballet that was written not as a story but just as an art. This would explain why the hardest part about this variation is its artist quality and its slowness. Sorry that the video is not that good for a better picture go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uyixV4Z7PI&feature=related. Remember Confusius say "Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."

2nd Variation of the year

Here is my second variation. This one is only like 50 seconds but it was still a killer because you never stop doing big jumps for that whole time. Not to mention you run across the stage every two seconds. Well I hope you enjoy it. This variation is from the ballet Giselle and is part of the willies (dark dancing dead fairy people) dance. The Character is Myrtha the queen of the willies. Note: I did not learn the second half of this clip, because that is the finally and is not till the end of the willi dance (you can see where is jumps to the second section).

Lacy's Adventures

Here is some random pictures from the last year!! Enjoy!!

Books I have read this Summer

I thought I would keep track of how many books I have read this summer and share them with everyone. Some of the books on this list are books I have read on tape. I drive a lot, either to dance, around the neighborhood, or random places. Also I have listened to books while working. The books I listened to on tape are *stared*. Here is my list: The Haunted Mesa by: Louis L'Amour Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

by: Brandon Mull

Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra by: Obert Skye *The Book Thief* by: Markus Zusak *Eragon* By: Christopher Paolini *Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince* by: JK Rowling Frankenstein by: Mary Shelly

*Eldest* By: Christopher Paolini The Feathered Serpent: Part I

by: Chris Heimerdinger The Feathered Serpent: Part II by: Chris Heimerdinger *The Last Dickens* Matthew Pearl

First Variation of the season

Every summer I have taken a variation class, a variation is a short solo done one of the leads in a ballet. I have attached a video of the variation done by some fabulous dancer. I wish I could dance this good. Some of the steps are slightly different from what I learned but basically it is the same.This dance is from the ballet Giselle and this is Giselle preforming a dance for her lover and trying to not let her mom know I also found a quote that sums up my feelings about ballet. Including my toes that aches from doing to many hops on pointe. “If ballet were easy, they'd call it football” That is all I need to say!

SUMMER!!!!!!

So here comes summer. My life has slowed down almost too much, but give me one week and then I will fix that. It is an understatement that I enjoy being busy. I really thrive off it. Yesterday I could not cope with having no homework so I decided to start working on my online classes. Even though I had promised myself I would not start until next week (I am sad if I can't keep a promise past Monday). I have so much to do this summer, here is a list 1. Dance every day 2. 1 term of Financial Literacy 3. 1 term of Geography 4. 2 terms of Health 5. Work where ever I can get a job 6. Youth Conference 7. Girls Camp 8. Dance Camp 9. Trip it BOSTON!! 10.Then back to school shopping 11. oh ya hang out with as many friends as possible 12. Paint Quotes on my wall I hope that I will be able to have a great summer and enjoy it more than any other before. All I know is I will keep smiling and laughin' through life. Well I thought I should just add a random video.I hope you enjoy it.

My quotes

I have 5 days left before voting stops but so far these quotes are winning:

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

-Victor Hugo

I know that a life without love is no life at all.

-Leonardo da Vinci (from Ever After)

"I believe the only way to get through this life is laughing, mostly at myself."

-Shannon Hale

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

- C.S. Lewis

We are what we believe we are.

-C.S. Lewis

I am still debating about one more quote that is :

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

- Alexandre Dumas

So you better vote before the summer! When I will start painting.

My Bathroom

Here are pictures of my bathroom and I LOVE the yellow. My dad needs to wear sunglasses to go in. It is not finished and I want to add quotes on my walls. On the side of this blog I have put a survey for the quotes. I have about 10 quotes and I can only pick five quotes. So I need you guys need to narrow it done for me. You can vote more than once.

First view of my bathroom

My bathroom shelves

Melissa's Mirror

My shelves by the sink

My sink

All the paint stuffed in a corner

Best shower curtainEVER! (it has flamingos that is what makes it so great)

TOLIET and SHOWER My Favorite new toys

Spare'oom

More of Spare'oom

C.S. Lewis Quotes

I have been writing a paper on C.S. Lewis and I found so my Quotes from him I just want to share them. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C. S. Lewis I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis We are what we believe we are. C. S. Lewis What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. C. S. Lewis God is not hurried along in the time-stream of this universe any more than an author is hurried along in the imaginary time of his own novel He has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. C. S. Lewis One of our great allies at present is the Church itself…I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity …All your patient sees is the half-finished, sham gothic erection on their new building estate. Provided that any of those neighbors sing out of tune, or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd cloths, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous. From Lewis's Screwtape Letters It does not matter how small the sins are, provided their cumulative effect is to edge the man away form the Light and out into Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. From Lewis's Screwtape Letters Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man C. S. Lewis

Random Quotes

Henry: Then let's say God puts two people on Earth and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well then what? Is that it? Or, perchance, you meet someone new and marry all over again. Is that the lady you're supposed to be with or was it the first? And if so, when the two of them were walking side by side were they both the one for you and you just happened to meet the first one first or, was the second one supposed to be first? And is everything just chance or are some things meant to be?

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded

by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas

"I believe the only way to get through this life is laughing,

mostly at myself."

— Shannon Hale

Danielle: If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?

“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”

J.R.R. Tolkien quotes

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. Alexandre Dumas

The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directy in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.

Philip Pullman

There is no frigate like a book

To take us lands away,

Nor any courser like a page

Of prancing poetry.

This traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of toll;

How frugal is the chariot

That bears a human soul!

Emily Dickinson

Leonardo da Vinci: I know that a life without love is no life at all.

Danielle: A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they

live?

Leonardo da Vinci: Then I shall have to make you wings.

“Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.”

J.R.R. Tolkien quotes

"Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory." — Gail Carson Levine: The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Alexandre Dumas

A Perfectly Beautiful Purple Fairy

I finished my fairy that I said I was going to do. Oh, what a glorious feeling it is. My room now looks better then ever now that the red fairy is gone, the green wall is filled, and my new purple fairy has taken over!