Hey! Sorry about the mix up earlier from the last chapter. For some reason I posted the chapter for SEOSL as the chapter for COS. I really messed up.
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So far camp has gone good. I moved into their cabin, met Caitlyn, and kept my secret. Caitlyn is turning out to be a really good friend. Thankfully I haven't had any run-ins with him all this week. My teaching is over- partly because I'm such a horrible history teacher, which is because History has always been my least favorite and my worst subject aside from math. I am now just taking classes. Shane's class is my favorite because it's dance, I mean, who doesn't love to dance?
I was sitting on my bed in my cabin reading Twilight when my dad came in. "Hey poppet, I got a surprise for ya." He said. I looked at my friends then looked back at my dad. "Okay, what's the surprise?" I asked. "Okay, well first things first, remember how we ordered all your dance shoes before you decided to come here?" he asked. I nodded my head still confused. "Well, here ya go." He said and handed me a large brown box. I opened it and inside were my dance shoes- my point shoes, regular ballet shoes, jazz shoes, jazz sneakers, and even some foot undies that people usually wore for modern dance. "Thank you!" I said and hugged him. He laughed. "That's not all, Lindsay come in here!" he called and in came one of my instructors and best friends Lindsay Jay. "EEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPP!!" we scram and hugged. "Guys, this is my friend Lindsay, Lindsay meet Caitlyn, Kandi, and Mitchie." I said. "Hi." They said. "Also, Lindsay has some great new for you." Said Dad "What is it Linds?" I asked "Okay, you know that dance competition you had to miss because you were coming here?" she asked "Yeah…." "Well, after some fabulous tasks performed by me- by tasks I mean working over time at the studio for teachers who couldn't make it- I got the competition moved here, to camp rock! It's going to be in the Camp Rock Theater." She said "OH Em GEE!" I said and I probably would've squeezed the living day lights out of her if my dad didn't stop me. "Thanks Brown. Well, I'll leave you to practice. I'll be seeing you around because I'm helping Shane with dance. He's having trouble trying to learn tap, jazz, modern, and ballet." She said, laughed, and then went out. My dad followed her. "Oh my gosh! I have to start practicing! Sorry to ditch you guys but I'm going to the dance room to practice." I said while grabbing all my shoes and my cd with my music on it.
I ran and ran until I finally got there- I had stopped to change into my dance clothes in my dad's cabin. I put on my jazz shoes first. I then opened the CD player and put in my music. I got into place and hit play on the remote.
Two
three four,
(woo-hoo ooo,woo-hoo)
(woo-hoo ooo,woo-hoo)
Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
so I'm
gonna let it do all the talking.
(woo-hoo ooo,woo-hoo)
I came
across a place in the middle of nowhere
with a big black horse
and a cherry tree.
(woo-hoo ooo,woo-hoo)
I fell in fear,
upon my back
I said don't look back, just keep on walking.
(woo-hoo ooo,woo-hoo)
when the big black horse said looked
this way, he said hey lady, will you marry me?
(woo-hoo
ooo,woo-hoo)
But I said no, no, no,no-no-no
I said no,
no, you're not the one for me
no, no, no,no-no-no
I said no,
no, you're not the one for me
(ooooo,woo-hoo)
and my
heart had a problem, in the early hours,
so it stopped it dead
for a beat or two.
(woo-hoo ooo,woo-hoo)
but I cut some cord,
and I shouldn't have done that,
and it won't forgive me after all
these years
(woo-hoo ooo,woo-hoo)
So I sent her to a
place in the middle of nowhere with a big black horse and a cherry
tree.
(woo-hoo ooo,woo-hoo)
Now it won't come back, cause
it's oh so happy and now I've got a hole for the world to see
(woo-hoo ooo,woo-hoo)
and it said no, no, no,no-no-no
I
said no, no, you're not the one for me
no, no, no,no-no-no
said
no, no, you're not the one for me
(ooooo,woo-hoo) (not the
one for me, yeah)
(ooooo,woo-hoo)
said
no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no
you're not the one for me (woo hoo)
no,no,no,no,(woo hoo) no,no,no,no
you're not the one for me
Big black horse and a cherry tree
I can't quite get
there cause my hearts forsaken me yeah yeah yeah
big black horse
and a cherry tree
I can't quite get there cause my hearts
forsaken me
I hit my ending pose. I was breathing really hard.I had hit all my moves perfectly. I grabbed my water- well, propel- and sat in one of the chairs. I looked into the mirrors- yeah, we got mirrors,Curtosy of the dance studio I got to. We had just gotten new mirrors and gave the used ones to camp rock- and saw my hair was a mess, even if my hair was down. I grabbed my purse and pulled my hair into a ponytail. I wrapped all my hair around the band, put on a protective hair net, and added a lot of bobby pins. Finally, I sprayed it with mega hold hairspray. There, now it wont fall. I took off my jazz shoes and put them in the box. I decided to do ballet next. I pulled out my point shoes and ouch pads. I took off my shorts leaving me in my purple leotard and tights. I put the ouch pads over my toes and pulled down my tights so they covered my feet. (theese are called convertible tights. Most of the dancers at my studio have theese so we can change quickly inbetween classes.) I then put on my point shoes. I stood up and got into place in releve. (Pronounced Rel a vay. Defintion: Raised. A raising of the body on the points or demi-pointes, point or demi-Pointe. Credit to (American ballet theatre) for the definition.) I turned on the music and began to dance to "River Flows in You" by Yiruma, also known as, to my fellow Twilighters, as Bella's lullaby. The dance was very tricky. There were many Pirouette's and Echappe sur les Point's and even Assemble's and Fouette's which are very hard to do in point shoes.
Shane's P.O.V.
I was walking by the dance cabin when I heard the song "Big Black Horse and a Cherry Tree" by KT Tunstle playing. I looked into the dance room to see Claire doing all these complicated dance moves I do not know the names of. Who knew she was that good? "Wow." I said. "Yup, Claire is one of our best dancers back at the studio." Said a voice. I turn around to see this girl, well, young lady, who looks about 20 with dark brown hair and blue eyes. "Who are you?" I asked her. She laughed "I am Lindsay Jay. Claire's friend and instructor at the dance studio. You must be Shane. I am your assistant for teaching tap, Jazz, modern, and Ballet. What you see Claire doing now is she is practicing her Jazz routine for the upcoming dance competition. It's taking place here at camp rock." She said. "Cool. I never knew Claire was that good." I said pointing towards the cabin. "Yeah, she is amazing." She said. I heard the music stop. I heard Claire breathing heavily. I walked back over to the window. She was on a chair drinking her water. She then put away the jazz shoes. She took off her shorts and was only in the leotard and tights; I learned what they were when she came over to our house once in that attire. She put these purple things that looked like half socks over her toes and sheer unrolled her tights. She then put on these shoes that I remember she called point shoes and how she told me about her wanting so bad to get into them. Well, now it looks like she has. She finished tying them up and walked over to the middle of the floor in the middle of the mirrors. She sprang up onto her toes and it looked like it hurt. I winced. "It may look like it hurts because it does if you don't have the ouch pads on- those little things that look like half socks." Said Lindsay. She turned on the music which was a slow piano balled that I recognized as, what she called it, "Bella's Lullaby". She then began to dance and I was amazed. I'll have to get her to dance like that in class.
End Authors note: Okay. That was chapter three. I wrote this thinking about ballet because I was teaching my little friend in 7th grade some of the stuff we do in my ballet class seeing as she goes to a different studio. Well, as for those little stars I need to define some stuff for you if you were totally lost on those words.
Definitions:
Pirouette: (pronounced: Peer wet) Whirl or spin. A complete turn of the body on one foot, on point or demi-Pointe. Pirouettes are performed en dedans, turning inward toward the supporting leg, or en dehors, turning outward in the direction of the raised leg. Correct body placement is essential in all kinds of pirouettes. The body must be well centered over the supporting leg with the back held strongly and the hips and shoulders aligned. The force of momentum is furnished by the arms, which remain immobile during the turn. The head is the last to move as the body turns away from the spectator and the first to arrive as the body comes around to the spectator, with the eyes focused at a definite point which must be at eye level. This use of the eyes while turning is called "spotting." Pirouettes may be performed in any given position, such as sur le cou-de-pied, en attitude, en arabesque, à la seconde, etc. Credit to for definition. You may want to go to that website for some of the definitions to these words. If the don't hyperlink to it the website is: a b t. org / education/ dictionary/ index. Html (without spaces of course).
Echappe: (Pronounced A Shaw pay) Escaping or slipping movement. An échappé is a level opening of both feet from a closed to an open position. There are two kinds of échappés: échappé sauté, which is done with a spring from the fifth position and finishes in a demi-plié in the open position, and échappé sur les pointes, or demi-pointes, which is done with a relevé and has straight knees when in the open position. In each case échappés are done to the second or fourth position, both feet traveling an equal distance from the original center of gravity. Credit to for definition. You may want to go to that website for some of the definitions to these words. If the don't hyperlink to it the website is: a b t. org / education/ dictionary/ index. Html (without spaces of course).
Assemble: (Pronounced Ah sawn blay) Assembled or joined together. A step in which the working foot slides well along the ground before being swept into the air. As the foot goes into the air the dancer pushes off the floor with the supporting leg, extending the toes. Both legs come to the ground simultaneously in the fifth position. If an assemblé is porté it requires a preparatory step such as a glissade to precede it. If an assemblé is en tournant it must be preceded by a preparatory step. Assemblés are done petit or grand according to the height of the battement and are executed dessus, dessous, devant, derrière, en avant, en arrière and en tournant. They may be done en face, croisé, effacé or écarté. Assemblé may also be done with a beat for greater brilliance. In the Cecchetti assemblé both knees are bent and drawn up after the battement so that the flat of the toes of both feet meet while the body is in the air. Credit to for definition. You may want to go to that website for some of the definitions to these words. If the don't hyperlink to it the website is: a b t. org / education/ dictionary/ index. Html (without spaces of course).
Fouette: (Pronounced: FO ET a) Whipped. A term applied to a whipping movement. The movement may be a short whipped movement of the raised foot as it passes rapidly in front of or behind the supporting foot or the sharp whipping around of the body from one direction to another. There is a great variety of fouettés: petit fouetté, which may be devant, à la seconde or derrière and executed à terre, sur la demi-pointe or sauté; and grand fouetté, which may be sauté, relevé and en tournant. . Credit to for definition. You may want to go to that website for some of the definitions to these words. If the don't hyperlink to it the website is: a b t. org / education/ dictionary/ index. Html (without spaces of course).
My final notes are
a.) REVIEW!! And b.) VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN 2008!!