What am I doing here exactly...?

I don't think I ever told you guys what we were actually doing here in Lakeland, so I thought I would take the time to briefly do it now. :)

For the first month, we're staying in Lakeland, Florida for "staging". This is the time to not just get the show together and learn all the music and the dances but also to get to know everyone and prepare ourselves for our journey ahead. So basically, we have workshops where we learn different things. We have an education workshop where we learn about accepting different cultures, about ourselves, about traveling in general, about how to document our 6 month (5 month?) journey, and other things like that.  We also have a vocal workshop where we learn how to use our voices and all the songs, of course. Lastly, we have a dance workshop where we stretch and do some aerobics before learning the choreography to all the songs.

This week, beginning Tuesday, was when all of this really started. Monday was modules day, which is essentially an audition day. Basically we went around all day and auditioned for different people. For example, for the dance module, we were given dance steps which we had to do in front of them who then judged us and decided from that who would be in which front dance. We had a speaking module (audition), a vocal module, a dance module, and a tech (behind the scenes lighting and sound) module.

So we have a full day from 8 in the morning to 5:30pm, and by the time we're done eating and showering it's 10 and I'm too tired that I end up just knocking out.

I stupidly thought that I would have a lot of downtime here. How very wrong I was. But don't get me wrong...I'm having so much fun! I'm doing everything that I love to do: singing, dancing, meeting new people, and soon, traveling! I can't wait!!!!!!!