Janae’s Dance competition weekend

 

 It’s a Thursday night at 4 pm and I'm working hard on perfecting and cleaning all of my dances so they look good on stage. Thursday nights are one of the most stressful nights for a dancer that’s getting ready to go compete, especially out of the country where I'll be competing against studios that I know of and studios that I've never heard of. This night gives me a lot of pain mentally and physically. Lots of tears and getting frustrated with myself for not looking perfect just in class. This first day you hear a lot of arguing, raising of the voice or even not talking at all and just being all in your head. Looking at the clock trying to stay awake while my whole body is ready to collapse on the last hour out of 7. 10pm finally rolls around and we say our team chant before we all either head home or drive up to the competition early. It's different for all dancers but for me when I get home and it's about to be a big dance weekend I can't eat or sleep so I go down to my basement and listen to music to calm me down. I then get extremely tired and go to my room and fall asleep. The next morning, my alarm goes off at 7am. I wake up with so much adrenaline and so much excitement to kick of the year at my first competition. I start packing my bags and running around the house to make sure i have everything on my packing list because we are going far away and won’t be able to just turn back to go grab what was forgotten. I’m starting to get nervous now and getting all in my head but i have to continue to pack because i have to leave my house and be at the airport by 11am