Arts Chapel 2015 (Fire Cache)

If I had to wake up at 5:30am for school every morning, I would always be tired, between classes and dance until late some nights. Thankfully, homeschooling doesn’t ask that of me. FYB, however, asked me to perform for some local kids who do get up early and go to school. I was positively amazed by how AWAKE the elementary students in Arts Chapel were at 8am; how thrilled they were to watch Starz, Faith and the missions team perform. I’m sure the pleasure was ours.

This, taking place yesterday, being Faith’s final outreach production with Firebird, it was bittersweet, but I’m so glad that I got to share it with the theater kids. Faith can get uptight and quiet (I think we’ve taken “professionally focused” to a whole new level of awesome.)– but Starz is always ready for action. One minute, they’re organizing backstage, and then they’re warming up their signing voices, and then they’re working on three different dances at once, and then they’re doing sound check, and in the grand scheme of things, they never stop being PRESENT, onstage or in rehearsal. They are absolutely some of the funniest–and most fun–people that I know. I’m going to miss the Anneites nearly as much as my Firebird friends.

But there’s Recital. And it is now Picture Week. And the ballet/tap kids have dress rehearsal coming up. And I have lots of schoolwork to do.