When I first started dance when I was three years old. It was just like what many mothers do. They enroll their daughter in a ballet class so that they can see their cute little girl have fun in a tutu.  I can not remember what studio I went to since I was only there for a short period of time, but I know it was somewhere in Reston. I actually quit two or three months in since I really did not like the class that much. I kept dancing around my house and everywhere I was at at and loved music so much. My mom asked me multiple times if I wanted to try a dance class again but I continued to say no. Finally at the age of seven my mom got me to take a jazz and tap recreational class at a dance place called Creative Dance Center. I started the class and really liked it a lot. I kept taking recreational classes there until a point where everything became to easy and I wanted to move on to something harder. I then started doing a thing called performing troupe there it was a big step from recreational classes. It was where you were able to learn and practice four dances and then perform them at different events such as fairs, retirement centers and more. I started dancing a lot more. In the begging of doing this I was an absolutely horrible dancer, but that year I worked incredibly hard and I improved so much. The next year I decided to do performing troupe again and got placed on the highest team. I realized though that I started to dislike the fact that it was becoming really easy and nothing we did seemed to really challenge me. I really wanted to do competition team instead so badly. The next year I then auditioned for competition team and made it on a really high team. The year started of so perfect and everything was going amazing and I started improving so much. It was really challenging but I liked it. However there were groups above ours and they were better and the dances my team had with them was not so good since we got overlooked all the time and were always placed in the back. Then the Competition team fallen apart since the studio owner and the two main teachers got in a fight about something to do with their money. The main teachers left hoping to form a new and better studio somewhere else. They brought along the teams they thought were the best and our team was not one of them. The whole studio fell apart and it was so stressful all I wanted to do was dance.  I wished things would go back to the way they were. I was not sure if I should stay at the studio or leave. I decided to leave the studio since I did not really love my team that much and the studio was a mess. This choice ended out back firing on me though. You can read my next blog to see what happened next.

(I am in the blue costume in the back toward the right side and this was when we had a performance in Disney World)