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Merry Christmas, P.I.M PALS! \(o^-^o)/🎄🎀🩰

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I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas Day filled with joy, peace, and love. 🤍

For Christmas, my parents surprised me with my first pair of pointe shoes for ballet so that I can reach my goal as a ballerina! As soon as I unwrapped it, I instantly started crying tears of joy! 😭🩰🤍

In addition to my pointe shoes, they got me some very helpful ballet books to help me learn how to dance on pointe as well as improve my turnout. 🩰📚

If you are reading this, mother and father, thank you so much again for the beautiful pointe shoes! 🫶🏼🩰

I am so happy and excited to start ballet dancing on pointe for the Lord, for it is a desire of my heart from God and a childhood dream come true. ✨

With this gift of pointe shoes, I am also reminded of the Scripture verse, Psalm 37:4 (NIV) which says, “Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart. 💕

Furthermore, I have found that as I have taken delight in the Lord in my daily life, He has truly given me the desire to be a ballerina who dances to glorify Him and praise His Son, Jesus, boldly. 🩰 🙌 🎶

And with that being said, it is true that if and when your desire aligns with God’s Will for you and your life, the Christ in Christmas will give you the desires of your heart in His right timing, whether that be on Christmas Day or any other day. 💕✨

Lastly, as I embark on this journey and continue studying the art of classical ballet, I want to remind myself and you, reader, of the Scripture verse, Philippians 4:13 (NKJV), which says, “I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me”. 💪✨

This Scripture verse keeps me encouraged and reminds me that I can do all things, including ballet dancing on pointe, through Christ Jesus Who strengthens me. 🩰✨

For you, reader, it may be something completely different that you are passionate about and are interested in doing, but the Scripture verse still applies to you and your God-given desire. ✨

With all of that being said, I hope that you found this post to be valuable and encouraging, reader, and if it resonated with you, feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section down below, for I would love to hear from you. 🤗🤍

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May God bless you and protect you, and I pray that you are safe and healthy always! 🙏❤️

Your P.I.M PAL,

Selene

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Showtime! My First Ballet Performance

Hi, P.I.M PALS! (🎀o^-^o)/ 🩰🤍

As I mentioned in my previous ballet-related blog post called, “To My Late Bloomers… Dreams Come True“, I said that I will be launching a new blog post about my first-ever ballet performances in the near future. And with that being said, welcome to today’s blog post about my first-ever ballet performances! 🩰 🎼 ✨

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The day finally came on Friday, August 4, 2023, when my dream of performing on stage for the very first time as a ballerina came true. It was so surreal and exciting to perform in my first-ever ballet show! It was truly a dream come true! 🥹🩰🤍

In the show, I performed a “fan dance” from the famous ballet, “La Bayadère”, set in Royal India, and I performed as one of the flowers from the classic children’s tale, “Peter and the Wolf.” 🩰🌻✨

Overall, I am very happy to say that I survived my first ballet performances, and that I practiced a lot behind the scenes to give the best performances that I could. 🥲🩰🎼

Before the show, I learned and experienced a variety of things. For instance, I learned a lot about what happens backstage, I experienced getting fitted for costumes, I participated in constant rehearsals, I asked questions to my teachers and dancers when I needed help, I initiated practices, I became comfortable with performing in front of people, I dealt with unnecessary dance drama, I experienced getting my hair and makeup done for dress rehearsal and the show, and overall I witnessed and experienced all of the hard work that was involved behind the scenes for the show.

I thank my family for helping me bring my ballet dream into a reality and for coming out to support me and watch me do my first ballet show. I was so happy to be able to notice my family in the audience and make eye contact with them while performing, for it only fueled my motivation to give them a good performance. At the end of the show, my father handed me some beautiful red roses, and one of my aunts came down to see me and surprise me, and she handed me some pretty soft pink roses. 😄🌹💕

Overall, I thank everyone who encouraged me and supported me, whether they could make it to the show or not. 🙏🩰💕

I thank my teachers for taking the time to teach me and encourage me, and for giving me the opportunity to perform. It is just so surreal for me to finally be a part of their dance school that I always respected and admired from afar for so long. 🙏🩰🤍

Most of all, thank you to God who gave me the ability and dream to even do ballet in the first place and dance for His glory. 🙏🩰✨

Overall, reader, I just feel so motivated and determined to work even harder at ballet and give my absolute best in every performance that I do as a ballerina in the future. 💪🩰🤍

I am very determined to advance to the next level in ballet and be en pointe next summer, or even before next summer. In the meantime, I will continue my training at home, as well as prepare for the ballet school year. 🩰✨

In light of this, I remind myself (and you, reader) of the Scripture verse, Colossians 3:23 (NLT), which says, “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.” ✨

On a different note, unfortunately, I cannot share videos of the show/performances, but in the future, I will be posting reels/videos of me ballet dancing to different songs and music, so look forward to that, reader! 🩰🎼🤍

Here is a carousel of some pictures of me on the day of the show down below. 👇🏼

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Thank you so much for reading! If you enjoyed this post, feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section down below. I would love to hear from you! 🤗🤍

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