Charities Night...once again!!

[Michelle_16]

Hi. I just thought id let you know this. Every year at my school they hold a "Charities night" this is an show put on by the senior pupils to raise money for a charity in the local area. The pupils sing or dance and usually we get a great show and make lotsa money!

However when im on the stage, i love nothing more that to preform for an audience, i am having a fantastic time and bcos the show runs for a week i am constantly hyper! I concentrate and have a great time on stage and really feel my dancin is great!

This will b my last yr doin it cos i gotta leave! but everytime i get the video tape of the show it really bursts my bubble bcos i look SOOO different and i really dont feel it on stage! my arm moves different ways from everyone else and its awkward lookin! We got best act last yr for our Madonna Megamix and when i saw the vid last yr i was in tears! i looked the most awful thing..and i no im not but all that excitment jst drained bcos i feel that, that is how ppl saw me in the audience who didnt know me. I have danced since i was 2 and i am good at it but i think my arm really took the attention away from our dance.

I wish they didnt make videos!

This year im doing SClub Juniors "one step closer", Libery X "just a little" and Spice Girls "who do you think you are". We're singin the spice girls. The theme is "walk around the clock" so we have to hav acts from the past spice girls fit right in there!

So i love charities night but it makes me V concious of my arm!

LoL! ill send a copy of the vid to someone and you can pass it around! lol play... spot michelle!!!

Michelle x

[Kathleen M]

OH Michelle

U bring back so many memories... I loved dancing and singing... got me through school...I understand how you feel... I did not know how I looked either and enjoyed myself... glad we did not have video for me to focus on... I looked at every picture all my life and the first thing I noticed was my arm... it took me years to realize I was the one looking at it... I kept quiet and never said much (hard to believe) but when I started pointing it out I realized I was my own worst critic....

So you go girl you dance and act your heart out.... and forget about the video.... some day maybe you will be a famous spokes person for bpi....

Enjoy Charity night... you are already contributing more then most because you are part of a community service that helps others...

Kath

[Karen Hillyer]

Michelle
WELL DONE I could NEVER get up on satge and do what you do!

You know if you ask all of your co dancers what they thought of themselves you'd hear things like

my bum looks big in the costume
my hair was a mess
I was out of step
my thighs are huge
I look fat in that outfit
that colour doesn't suit me

go on ask them what they thought of themsleves and I expect they will ALL have some aspect about themselves they don't like - Kathleens right, you are you're own worst critic - look at it again, I bet you were GREAT!

keep up the excellent work
Karen