Twice a year VE puts on a talent show (of sorts) for all of the institutions. Everyone submits a bunch of artwork and the kids have a chance to perform. They can dance, sing, or play an instrument. The artwork and the performances are all judged and some of the kids get prizes. It was such a fun night, and I’m so happy that I got to experience it!
Here is most of the artwork my girls did:
All the performances they did were great! My girls ended up performing the Miley Cyrus dance I taught them a few months ago, which made me so happy and excited to see them! They ended up asking me to join in the dance with them, so that was fun. It was funny though because when I taught them the dance they just mirrored my moves, so everything was backwards. When I danced with them, I looked a little lost because the moves were switched around, but that’s ok. I ruined the dance a little bit, ha, but it was so fun!
Other performances some of the girls did were two of them sang a duet to a Spanish song, two girls sang solo to two different Spanish songs, and then two girls did a duet to Naturally by Salina Gomez (an English song). I have never felt so proud of anyone else like I did with these girls. It was a new feeling for me. I felt like a proud mama bear. It was interesting for me to see how I reacted to everything; it gave me a small glance into the future on the type of mom I’m going to be. I will definitely be the mom taking a TON of pictures of EVERYTHING and recording EVERY performance. And I’m pretty sure I will most definitely embarrass my kids…all the time.
After all the girls did their performances, a group of us volunteers danced to a Spanish song. Oh man…that was soo much fun too, but was a little crazy. I was only able to make it to one of the practices. I was hoping to be able to stand in the back, but it seemed like almost everyone wanted to be in the back so I ended up being front and center ha (first mistake ha). Also, I seemed to have missed the memo to wear a dark shirt because everyone was wearing a dark t-shirt, but I wore a white long sleeve t-shirt (second mistake). So I stuck out like a sore thumb ha, and whenever I made a mistake it was a big, obvious one haha. Right before we started dancing, all my girls started a chant saying my name; it was sooo cute.
After the performances we all went outside to eat a snack while the judges deliberated about the prizes. I was hanging out with the older girls while they were listening to music. They were trying to teach me some new sexy dance moves. So naturally, I took their sexy dance moves and turned them into goofy, ridiculously dumb, white girl moves. Even though they were making fun of me, I know they enjoyed it ha. I hardly get to see the older girls because when they come home they go straight to their rooms to hang out (what 16 year olds normally do). So I really enjoyed hanging out with them, it also gave them a chance to get to know me better.
After snack time the judges gave out the prizes. My girls won a prize for the Miley Cyrus dance (despite me being in it ha)!!!!! Everyone loved it! It was to an English song, the lyrics and dance moves were age appropriate, and the girls did such a great job! I was so proud of them and they were very excited to win. Three of my girls won prizes for some of their artwork and another girl won a prize for a poem she wrote. It was so great to be able to experience Festival with my girls. I wish there could be more for me to attend; I really enjoyed seeing my girls be so proud of themselves.
Until Next Time,
Liz
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