Ok, I'm sorry. It's been a long time. But at least I'm writing now!
News on any upcoming trips: I'm going to America for three weeks in two weeks! Sorry Denver friends, but I'll be going to Washington D.C. to be with my grandparents and aunts and cousins.
SO EXCITED!!! I haven't seen my cousins/aunts/grandparents for like almost two years, and it's going to be awesome!!! Why?
1. I'm going to be productive (yes, cat softie, here I come!).
2. I'm going to draw a lot (and therefore be productive).
3. I'm going to draw a lot to enter a competition for an audience prize (or something) for these awards called the INKY awards! It's an Australian competition: basically it is a prize for books, except the books are judged by teenagers. Every year they give a panel of teenage judges a bunch of books that were published that year (this year's books were all published in 2013, for example) and then they have to create a gold and silver list (each with 10 books) for Australian authors and foreign authors.
Anyways, if you enter the audience prize you have a chance to win all 20 of those books! I intend to win those books- I've already read two, and they're good. Really good.
In other news... I got a solo in one of my band pieces! YAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! So excited/nervous for that. The band director even picked me over some older girls (YAAAAAHHHHH!!)!
Ok... onto the post title. So, three weeks ago (just out of the blue), Mom says: "Hey, I wanted to tell you: we're going to Cavalia next week!"
A week after that I stabbed my finger with a lino carver because I was so distracted (that was really funny- everyone was horrified and I'm just like "What? It's not so bad!"). At random times in class I would be like "56.5x30 is... is... CAVALIA!! CAVALIA CAVALIA CAVALIA!!!!"
Let's just say that I drove my friend
a bit crazy.
For those who don't know what Cavalia is and why I was so excited about it, this should answer both questions:
I will describe my day to you in detail:
First I drove my friend crazy and stabbed my finger in class.
Then I went on a train to my flute lesson and played flute.
I proceeded to go on a train and a tram to Mom's office.
I waited and got changed and read a book and wrote a story plan and got excited in mom's office.
We went to the Cavalia tent.
My sisters kept telling me there was a special surprise.
I guessed it right.
We had dinner in the Cavalia tent (Surprise! But still major freak out- there were TVs everywhere with horses on them and relaxing music-horse...horses...HORSES!).
We went to the actual show tent and sat in the fourth row (YAAAAHHHHH!!!!).
The show started (Ok guys, spoilers. Anyone who doesn't want Cavalia ruined should not read the next section).
Intro: They asked trivia questions about Cavalia (I got most of them right).
Scene 1 (kind of still intro): Toy horses everywhere on the stage. Two cute paint foals come out and run around and do what they do best: be cute!! People come out and sing and dance and play cello- YAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Scene 2: "The Discovery"- Horse grazing, human comes along. Human dances in pond a bit and attracts horse's attention, then: INSTANT BOND!! (YAAAHHHHH!!!!)
Scene 3: "Cavalcade"- horses run around. I couldn't really focus on what was happening because there were so many of them: HORSES. HORSES. HORSIESSSSS!!!!!!!
Scene 4: "The Ball"- THis one was quite fun. A man was in a cave and he climbed up onto this giant ball. Then he starts doing tricks on it (running up and down hills with it, jumping, etc.) when all of a sudden A HORSE COMES OUT AND DEMANDS TO EAT THEM MAN'S APPLE! The man asks the audience if we think that we should give the horse the apple- we say yes. He gives the horse the apple. The horse demands another one. He gives the horse the other apple. (YAAAHHHH!!!)
Scene 5: "Liberte"- People ride horses around bareback and no handed and do lots of tricks- YAAAHHH!!!
Scene 6: "Bareback Riding" (excuse me, but that already happened- oh well. It happens again)- A woman comes and does amazing tricks with lassos. Horses come and they ride and do tricks on them bareback. People bounce on trampolines over the horses and do lots of flips and crazy dizzying stuff- YAAAHHHH!!
Scene 7: "La Vida"- Song with words where I can understand half because they're in spanish: Basically, it says that horses are dreams, etc. etc. they're the coolest, the best etc. etc.- YAAHHH! BUT WAIT-IT'S NOT OVER!!! Men riding on horses, lades flying beside the horses, landing on the horses, doing tricks beside the horses, flying over the horses AAAAAHHHHHH!!! YESSSSSSS!!!!
Scene 8: "Le Miroir"- Two white horses come and dance together (it's called dressage, but it's basically horse dancing). I LOVE. (Wait for it... wait for it...) YAAAAHHHHH!!!
Scene 9: "Roman Riding"- Omg, funnest scene. People come riding on two horses by standing with one leg on each horse's back. Screaming, yelling, whooping. One of the riders falls asleep on his horses. All the other people start exchanging horses, until only one lady is left controlling six horses while standing on two, and jumping over things, and running around, and everything- YAAAHHHH! But it hasn't finished yet- this is when the fallen-asleep guy comes in. They put up a jump really high and yell at him to come and jump on it. He wakes up, looks at the jump, and shrieks- AH! He insists that it is too high. They lower it. He turns around to get on his horses properly and they make it higher again. He shrieks again but they insist they won't lower it. He goes but does not jump over it. Everyone encourages him to try again. He tries- and he jumps the thing and lands on the horses' backs! (just in case you were wondering, it was all on purpose)- YAAAHHH!!!
Scene 10: "Pieds Percussions"- The only thing I really remember from this scene is the horse and the dark lights. I'm sorry- the horse was too beautiful and distracting (YAAAHHHH!!!).
Scene 11: "Libertad"- A love scene. Most of the focus was on the human artists, as they swung high up in the air and did amazing cool things that could have cost them their lives if there was a single slip- but there WERE horses (YAAAHHH!!). I think there was a song about dreaming in this one too.
Scene 12: "Carousel"- Ok, before I say anything, this scene was AMAZING. The horses were so well disciplined and the dancing and everything went spectacularly! There were a whole bunch of grey/ white horses and all the riders were dressed in like these amazing silk gown things that were so beautiful and reminded me of the elves from Lord of the Rings or something! The horses did a bunch of dances together and there wasn't a single bump even though all the horses were packed together quite tightly and were moving sideways and doing a bunch of other things!- YAAAHHH!!
Scene 13: "Haute Ecole"- This was a type of four seasons thing. First it snowed. Then leaves fell (I have like two billion of them- XP) and then it was the spring and summer. It was like a dancing duet. It was beautiful and very exciting!
Scene 14: "Grande Liberte"- This scene was quite funny. There was one trainer and five horses, and the night I was there the horses weren't being very obedient. Three of them were constantly going off and nipping and playing with each other while the other two did obey the trainer. He managed to get them together in the end, though (later in the stable tours the horses kept getting pointed out as "the naughty horses")!- YAAHHHH!!
Scene 15: "Trick Riding"- This scene was quite fun. The horses would gallop across the stage while their riders did a whole bunch of crazy tricks like hang off the saddle and stand and stuff. It started with a lone cowboy in the desert looking for something, and in the end he got off the horse and had to try to chase it so that he could get back on- this quickly escalated to him getting chased by a miniature horse across the stage (all on purpose, of course!). It was funny because at the beginning of the show when they were doing the trivia thing they mentioned that there was a miniature horse and I was just waiting for it to appear until then, when I had already given up hope that it was part of the show!- YAAHHH!
Scene 16: "Bungees Cavalier"- This was focused in the air dancers, this time using bungee cords. While the horses waited to recieve the dancers when they came down to pat them upside down or land on their backs or something the dancers bounced in the air, some of them coming SO CLOSE to the audience in the middle (I was near the edge). I don't even know how they kept a routine, all I would have been able to was bounce a bit and then not get enough momentum to keep going- YAAAHHHH!!!
Scene 17: "Finale"- as suggested by its name, that was the finale. All the human artists and the horses that had just performed came on stage and waved goodbye. Then the show ended and the cute foals came back to entertain us as we tried to get back to the eating tent so that we could wait for our tour of the Cavalia stables!!!- YAYAYAYAYAYAYAHHHHHHHH!!!!
As mentioned in the last scene: The last part of the surprise was that I got to get a tour of the stables!! All the horses were really pretty (and cute, as in the case of the foals), but they were all really tired and were just settling down. I was really tired too, it was like midnight then.
So then we went home and were tired for the next day.
You may be wondering: why did Mom decide that we were going to Cavalia? Well: it was my big early birthday present (my birthday's in a little more than a week!)!!
There isn't that much more exciting news except that I went to the Melbourne Writer's Festival a few weeks ago (that is how I found out about the INKY awards)!
Random picture:
This is my new background- YAAAAHHHHH!!!!
Also, I forgot to put this up- I had this idea stuck in my head ever since I saw the original picture but I only got around to doing it like a month ago.
