Hi Everyone,
I have been living at the rink lately. Today I woke up at 5:00am again and got to the rink for the 6:30 session and skated until 9:45. I was suppose to get up at 4:00 am to make the 5:45 session but my mom had a hard time waking up. I ended up having my dad take me. It was nice having my dad there. I don't see him as much any more since my mom has been taking me in the mornings. It was an exhausting morning but totally worth it. I landed my axle and did a pretty good camel spin. My mom wants me to do six revolutions in the camel and fast but so far I only have done five on my good ones. I really need to work on getting a good stretch in my camel position. My mom and Diane were kind of laughing at me yesterday because I was bending my knee in the camel. It did slow me down and so I know I need to work on that. Diane, my coach, gave me a list of things to work on yesterday. 1) Be fast with out rushing. 2) Look up and show confidence. 3) Keep my knee up on the attitude. 4) Keep my leg strait on the lunge. 5) Hold out my landings but don't lose the speed of the program. She probably told me a lot of other things but right now I can not remember.
During the ice cut today I got to watch part of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy! It was so funny! That is one benefit of having my dad come. Of course after that my dad cracked the whip and had me skate around the rink until my legs were burning. Then he had me come off ice and do wall sits. It hurt a lot! I then went around the rink 5 times fast and then did my program again. Diane wants me to go through my program at lest 5 times a day with the music, but my mom likes me to go through it ten times. She wasn't here today so I did 7. There are only 3 weeks until Regionals Diane changed my program around again yesterday. She wants me to do the hardest jumps for my single jumps and for the combo jumps as well. So I am doing a Flip, Lutz, and Salchow as my single jumps and Flip - toe, Lutz - Loop as my combo jumps. I have got a lot of work to do to make this great, but everyone believes in me and I know if I keep working at it it will be great for Regionals. My older sister Katherine is having her birthday just before Regionals on the 24th and we are trying to do something for her. She really likes Harry Potter and the last movie just came out so it should be easy to find things for her.
(PS I wrote most of this long hand with a pencil while waiting in my Dad's gray cubicle so that he could take me home at Lunch time. I don't like gray carpeted walls. yuck!)
I have a video my mom made of one of my program versions. It keeps changing but this was one of my first times through so don't laugh. And Yes I Know that I'm Slow. Very very slow.
Bonnie
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