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Personal Narrative: Indianettes Dance
Ever since I was a little girl I dreamt about being on the Indianettes dance team. Dancing has been a part of my life from the age of four up until now. When I was younger I was not the best dancer but I loved it, and my mom already paid for my classes so i was kind of stuck doing it anyways. My eighth grade year I was preparing to tryout for the Indianettes, I was stretching, working on my technique, and working on my jumps and turns. It turns out that the old coach Sheri Bradley quit and the Indianettes had a new fairly inexperienced coach named MariAnn Barfus. I wasn't very confident about making the team. Long story short, I ended up making it along with Jaidyn Harris, Hannah Hyde, Daphnie Colpron, Carson Davis, Becca Osterhout, Mechelle …show more content…
Spring show is just a small showcase of all the dances we have done throughout the year and anyone was welcome to come and watch. Leading up to the show we didn't really practice much because we already knew our dances like the back of our hands so we only had practice the week of. Practice was good that week except for the last day, on the day of spring show, Kaitlyn Underwood decided not to show up to practice in the morning. Everyone was trying to call her but about halfway through practice my coach decided to just take her out of every dance and change everything. It was super stressful for all the girls on the team considering that the show was that night and we only had an hour to practice all the new changes. Everything worked out by the show and our routines actually looked pretty good considering the circumstances. I also got awarded freshman of the year because of my determination and improvement I showed throughout the season. My coach that year also quit which was probably for the best, even though she was a great person she didn't really know how to be a good coach which was …show more content…
One thing that I learned was the importance of teamwork and how it can affect each individual participating as well as the team as a whole. There was so much drama and contention the the team that year so it was hard for everyone to work together and be united as one. Another lesson I took from that year was how having a positive attitude can make or break any experience you may be going through. If you have a negative attitude it not only affects you but it also affects those people around you which isn't very good for a whole team. Freshman year also taught me how to put up with people I don't particularly like just for the sake of not creating any drama and keeping the team as one. At times I wanted to quit so badly because the year was so hard but I realize now that if you endure some things to the end then you will feel more accomplished in the

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