SWAGGERS TONIGHT!!

Aaaaah I am very excited and nervous at the same time heheh! What about?? Tonight is the night....I get to perform an 8 minute show with my dance crew, swaggers. It's a talent show so really a competition.

This week has been one of the most tiresome weeks I've had yet. I have had to fit in PM bench marking (reading tests) for each individual child, finish art work for an exhibition and practise for a year 1 concert that finally took place yesterday. On top of that I have had 3 and half hour rehearsals on Sunday and Tuesday night with a private break dance class on Wednesday night. PLUS marking lots and lots of books on top of that! Whew....that's a lot.

Right now, I am sitting on my sofa with the flat to myself because Nick and Luke half left for their easter holiday. I have slept lots, I have cleaned a little and I have had me time. Things are looking up! And today is going to be a full day of the Talent Show, hair to get done, make to be done, rehearsal on stage at 3pm, show starts at 4pm and we are on at 8pm!! Ah! I am bubbling inside! hehe!

I shall let you know how it goes in my next post....wish me luck :p

Year 1 Assembly

I was a little nervous about today because I've never had to do an assembly with children as young as 5 in a huge theatre in front on all of key stage 1. We had practised for just over a week for maybe 1 hour or half an hour a day and completed the assembly this morning with success! I was so proud of them all. They remembered what to say and they danced the way they were supposed to and they did it with style hehe! I was so happy with them yay!!

I tried to upload a video but it wouldn't work so a wee pic of them all will have to do!

Mosquito hell!

After a pretty stressful and tiresome week, me and a few of the girls thought it would be an excellent idea to pamper ourselves at the weekend. We thought, Thursday night shopping in the posh mall (City Stars) since we'd just been paid; go home get changed and boogie at a local club; then chill on Friday at a posh hotel with some nibbles and giggles, maybe even get a we spa or pedicure or whatever! Sounds great eh??

Well....the shopping went well...bought lots of goodies :D but traffic on the way to the club caused a little frustration and the fact that we weren't that sure where the actual location was did not help matters! Not to worry...we changed venue and managed to fit in about an hour of dancing!
Next day...hit the pool at the beach and hat an epic night of girly chat on the balcony of our hotel room. Little did we realise that we left the balcony door wide open for hour with the lights on.....oh dear, i hear you say!

Yes, that's right, we killed over 60 (no exageration!) mosquitos in our room and thinking that we may have been successful in getting rid....we headed to bed for a nice early relaxing sleeping. Next thing we hear....zzzzzz...you know the sound i'm sure, of that really annoying mosquito that you can never seem to hit when you turn the light on to kill it. Grrrrrr!!!
After a few hours of absolute frustration we try to get help from the hotel staff which i say politely were completely useless!!! We finally end up changing rooms and sleep for a few hours. I of course wake up to find my eyelids swollen as though I have been beaten up. It was crazy, I'd never seen myself look like that before, my eyes wouldnt even open properly!!
After taking antihetimines and sleeping a little more and treating myself to a well deserved pedicure I felt slightly better and the swelling went down slightly leaving behind a lovely shade of pink. I still have the remaining mosquito bites over my arms and bum though (how random!)

Ah well...it is a funny story to remember (maybe not so funny at the time though!)...