Aeliana

The Sydney opera house at the harbor. A beautiful sight surrounded by waves of the ocean. Sunny blue skies and sunshine. Boats shipping on the waves. A perfect shot. Great the Dudes in the background noticed that I was filming and started to wave and making faces. Cut.

I sighted. Why do I have to be a perfectionist anyways? I was sitting in my room back in Boise, Idaho. Yes that's actually a city in America, and cutting my film about Australia and Sydney. Something I could have done weeks ago but I did not have the time for that. My family went on a camping trip and I really enjoyed it. Free rock climbing, sleeping in a tent and laying around in the nature and inhaling the beauty of Idaho, yes that's what the trip was all about. Sydney too was beautiful, okay I disliked the point that water had to be everywhere, but home was just…well home.

I stood up and took a stroll in my room to shake away the pins and needles in my leg. Gosh I hate it when that happened. I took a look out of the window since I heard someone yelling and saw my sibling trying to play badminton. Well Rena was with her thirteen years, to cool for such a game and sat in the hammock with her mp3. Lena, eleven was trying to cheer Edward, seven, up to play with her. Gregory wanted to but it was obvious that Lena wouldn't want a four year old to be the opponent. Only nestling Bennet enjoyed the show and giggled while he watched his older siblings from his blanket. A nostalgic smile appeared on my lips. I really would Miss them. I was the oldest kid in our family and I remember every one of them as a baby. I got my acceptance letter yesterday and was lucky that Greg didn´t get the post. Since he never got letters he always hid mine and showed me those weeks later. I had a note that he would be the first I would write a letter to when I got back to Sydney. Back to Sydney that sounded good. I could squeal.

By the smell of Moms chicken casserole, my favorite dish, I got into the kitchen. Kissed my mom on the cheek, steal away a piece of paprika and went into the living room to see my dad on the laptop.

"Spark?" he called me by my nickname and showed up from the laptop "I just checked a few flights to Sydney"

I sat down on the side rest of the sofa and took a look.

"So the best one is you take a flight from Idaho to Denver and from there to LA and from there to Sydney. Or we´ll drive to La and you take a flight from there….or you take a flight from San Francisco by car it will just take 10 hours"

"Yeah…great" I sighted, why traveling has to be so complicated. I thought about the options. I was leaving for a year which meant I had heavy luggage. There was a limitation on weight on domestic flights. "I think San Francisco would do it."

"Good then I´ll book the flight. Maybe I should ask Uncle Dan if he´d lend us his car. It will be faster."

"No you don´t need to" I threw in "I mean how about we can wrap it up as a family trip and go all together"

I did not want anyone to be left behind at home. Dad seemed to notice that he smiled and leaned forward to peck me on the forehead.

"Alright Spark" he went back typing into his laptop "Oh Honey by the way, your cousins, aunts and uncles are coming over to give you a warm goodbye."

"Really? Cool I´m upstairs getting ready"

"Could you take Benny with you? He is sort of disturbing Lena in her game by crawling into the field. You know how much he loves it when you cut your videos."

"Dad I said that I´m getting ready. Why do you think I´m cutting movies?"

Dad laughed "Well I know my little girl and I leaned what lies behind your words. Secondly I haven't seen your Sydney video and you always show them to us when you finish"

"Then prepare. At dinner I´ll be finished" I winked and get outside to get Benny who was chewing on a shuttlecock.

"Here you go" I threw it towards Lena.

"Ewww gross" she made a face "Oh you´re taking him with you. Great! Thanks sis. Now Ed let´s get the party started"

"Me wanna to party" Greg said and jumped up and down

"No Greg, you can´t. It´s a single play if we would play a double you can take part but since Rennie is not playing you can't"

"Reeeeeennniiiie" the four year old yelled.

"Huh?" Rena looked up in astonishment and pulled out her earphones. It looked like she went asleep for a few minutes.

I smiled as I got inside holding Bennet who was playing with strains of my hair. I cuddled him and set him next to Mr. Kiwi the teddy bear I bought in Sydney. He would be the sibling I won't watch grow up and I hoped that the others would watch over him very carefully. Let them do Liana, I said to myself. They will be alright, it´s their turn now. Turn? Turns! I grabbed a piece of paper.

Practice turns tomorrow. I wrote down and hung it up on the back of my door. I remembered how sloppy mine has been in the final dance of audition week. That girl Tony had done it really good and I need to get it perfect next time. Next time, a grin ran over my lips. I would be at the National Academy of Dance in Sydney. This was good; no it was better than good it was awesome.

(AN) Hello folks this was the intro of Aeliana (Liana) Next up is Luke, then Jenneva and Cecily and of course Tony and Gabe. With those two the "real" story will start. Remember I am still waiting for ideas for the pas de due partner strengthening task. A big shout out to every one once again.

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