All right. I have just created myself a blog, and in that joined the more than 12 million people who have one. My personal purpose of blogging is to invite you all into the part of my life labeled "ballet".
Now that I have begun, I want to kick myself for not having sooner, because though this is my eleventh year in Ecuela de Ballet, Cristina Ortega F. ballet school, it is also my last. Maybe this will be my way of saying goodbye to this part in my life.
Meanwhile, I still dance, and the best opportunity in my world of ballet is coming up in June! On the 22th I will be in Jackson Mississippi to begin a month at Ballet Magnificat!'s (www.balletmagnificat.com/E_summer.html) summer intensive workshop. Here I will spend six days a week, six hours a day, DANCING! Classes include jazz, modern, variation (classical ballet repertoires, as well as Ballet Magnificat! company ballets), conditioning, contemporary, pas de deux, improvisation, and creative worship. If the last tipped you off, you're right! The best part of this whole deal is that it is centered on Christ. The ballet school and company is comprised of dancers who love Jesus and worship Him through the art of dance.
I first heard of Ballet Magnificat! through an article in a '99 Brio maganzine that somehow found its way to Puerto Montt, Chile. Our furlough after that I was still too young to attend and the last time we went to the US the workshop wasn't a priority. But in December of '07 I printed the scholarship application and began to prepare for the audition video which I filmed and sent in February. March was spent waiting and wondering, and in April I was emailed with the incredible news that it had been granted to me! The scholarship covered tuition, and I am responsible for room and board, which will be at the Belhaven College in Jackson. The workshop ends July 19, and by then I hope to have a clear vision of what place dance is to hold in my life.
Well, that is the beginning, and I plan update frequently, so keep stopping by!

Hasta Luego (until the next)-
Elizabeth L.