Month: October 2023

Something I absolutely love doing is Tap Dancing. I have been dancing for about five years now. I started tap because my big sister influenced me to try it! At first I was not on board with the situation but now I am incredibly thankful I did. I dance at the Ballet School of Chapel Hill, I have been dancing there since I started tap. I am currently in a tap company called NCYTE. I dedicate more of my time into NCYTE rather than my weekly tap lessons because I feel being in a company is my top priority. I still dedicate some of my time into lessons as well. I have struggled with multiple tasks in tap, especially during Covid. I took a break once the pandemic hit, which caused me to loose three years of dance.  It was a major struggle to get back into dance after all the years I had missed but I persevered and tried anyway.

At the beginning of the school year the 6th grade went on a trip to camp Kirkwood. Camp Kirkwood is located in Watha, North Carolina. When we got there each of the councilors were incredibly nice and welcoming. Even though we arrived during a tropical storm, the councilors managed to make everything work. We participated in tons of fun activity’s such as, the V-swing, the pool, soccer, dodgeball, and we even got to watch a movie!  We also had delicious meals and snow cones!

(All Photos were taken by my teachers while we were at camp!)

During summer break our LA teacher assigned a book called “finding someplace.” Finding someplace is a about a 13 year old girl named Reesie Boone. Reesie lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, were hurricanes are very common. Reesie usually isn’t afraid of any silly little hurricane but Katrina isn’t a silly little hurricane. On the day of the storm her mom is at work and so is her father, her uncle is unable to pick her up, the only person she has left to stay with his her elderly neighbor. Eventually Reesies best friends brother, André and his wife come to join them, trying to wait out the horrible hurricane.

In the start of the school year, our LA teacher assigned us an essay. The essay was about who we thought in the book was the hero of the story.

Photo taken by me

this is the essay I wrote, the person I chose was André.

Later our teacher had us to a project about the book. This project was called the backpack project. What this project had us do, was to draw in a backpack what important valuables or essentials we would bring if we were stuck in hurricane Katrina.

Photo taken by me

this is my backpack and all the items I decided to put in my backpack.