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Monday, December 21, 2009

I have a dream

I love this song...


Thursday, December 17, 2009

blah

So tonight I am icing my ankle, because I hurt it at gymnastics, writing 2 essays, because they are due tomorrow, and trying to send my awesome roommate the pics from the last night at camp... and this time they might actually send! (UPDATE -- they did send!)

Monday, December 14, 2009

Umm... Wow!

*Eyes pop out*





















How many times do you think she fell on her head while learning to do that?

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Once Upon A December!

I love this song :)




The Russian version is better.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Inspirational Speech From a 12-year-old

Saturday, December 5, 2009

A Few More

Just a few more pieces that I found. The Typewriter Song is still the best, though :)













The Typewriter Song!

A bit of awesomeness that I found today...



ooops...

Hi, sorry that I haven't been posting recently... I won't say that I haven't had time cuz I'd be lying, even though I have been really busy. Since my last post, Donny has won dwts (ugh), and the Grand Prix Final has happened. The US won ice dance and mens!
Right now it's snowing outside (!!!), and because of that my concert today was cancelled :( (we were going to sing outside). We've still got the "big" concert next week, and we might be performing at Camden Yards the week after!!! *please please please* And if we do, we'll get a bunch of money for it, which we NEED cuz the choir's barely surviving :(
Right now I'm sitting here on my mom's computer listening to loud music (don't you luv it when no one's home???) and getting mad cuz whenever I try to download something it doesn't work (wmv IS a movie file, right?).
That's all for now... more posts later, promise!

Monday, November 23, 2009

DWTS

Well, the finals of dwts are tonight... actually I guess they've started already :) Anyway, I'm really mad that Joanna and Derek were voted off last week, because Derek would have choreographed an awesome freestyle! Plus Joanna (and Derek) is just awesome. The ONLY reason they're gone is because Kelly and Donny got pity votes... I was going to do a "Why To Love Joanna" post this week, but I guess now I'll just do them with the finalists.
So now the finals will be pretty boring... Mya's freestyle will be amazing, IF Dmitry doesn't mess up the choreography. Donny's will be entertaining, but the technique won't be great. Kelly's will be boring. But Donny and Kelly (and Dmitry) could still surprise me and be awesome.
I can't wait to see all the stars that got voted off at the results show :) Does anyone know if ALL the stars are coming back, or just some of them? Because if it's all, that's a LOT of stars, and some of them can't dance all that well (and that's putting it mildly...)
That's all for now... This is completely random, but I have a Christmas carol that we're singing in choir running through my head non-stop right now. It's a really annoying song, too. Oh, and I'm shadowing at City College tomorrow (It's a high school, if you didn't know that). And one last thing... Is anyone reading this doing NaNoWriMo? Leave a comment if you are... OK, bye!

Friday, November 13, 2009

Gymnastics Worth Watching 1 - Men's Rhythmics?

When you think of rhythmic gymnastics, you don't usually think of men... but these Japanese men are amazing. The dance, the elements, the synchronization, everything.






Can it even be considered rhythmics, though? There's no apparatus, and there seem to be a few elements taken from acrobatics, as well as some difficult tumbling.
Whatever it is, it's still amazing!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

A Few Reasons To Love Aaron Carter

Well, Aaron Cater got voted off dwts, just as I predicted (along with the rest of the world). Here are a few of my fave dances...

Week 2, quickstep (must watch)


Week 6, waltz


Week 8, foxtrot (not so sure about what Karina's wearing, though!)

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Just Because...

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

40 years of Sesame Street...





















Sasha's out...

Sasha Cohen withdrew from Skate America (because of the same injury as before), and Emily Hughes will take her place. This means that nationals (the qualifying event for the Olympics) will be her first competition since worlds in 2006.
Just wondering - does this mean that Emily will be automatically qualified for nationals?

DWTS final 5

Out of my original final 5, Natalie and Mark got voted off, but everyone else is still here... I'm MAD that they're gone. Especially Mark, because that was NOT FAIR!


So, having not watched this weeks dances, but having read a review, here is my prediction for where the final 5 will place.

5. Aaron and Karina
4. Kelly and Louis
3. Donny and Kym
2. Mya and Dmitry
1. Joanna and Derek


Places 3, 2, and 1 are temporary predictions, but I wanted to get something out there.

Oh, and congrats to Mya for getting the first perfect 30 of the season!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Tired

I'm tired. Life is good. Angora Nachos are good. Spaz!

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Nastia + Twilight?

I am completely obsessed with this video! It's amazing! Just watch it!


(sad) skating news

Well, Kimmie Meissner has withdrawn from her Grand Prix events because of an knee injury, which means that her whole season is already over. She had a bye to nationals because the qualifying events are the same time as her grand prix events, but now that she withdrew she would have to qualify. The Baltimore Sun had a longer article on it then I've seen from them in a while... Not that I read that paper much :-)

Kimmie 2006 Worlds WINNING LP


Sasha Cohen also withdrew from her first grand prix, but is planning to compete in her second, Skate America. This means that she can't qualify to the the grand prix final, which gives her a total of one major competition before nationals...

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

B-day, future city, gym, Olympics, etc...

I turn 14 today! *does happy dance* *spazzes* yep :)...

Rio got the Olympics. Chicago was out in the first round of voting. It's the first time South America is hosting the Olympics, so I think they'll try pretty hard and make it awesome :)

The US teams for the gymnastics world championships (in just about a week!) have been named. Ok actually the mens team was named a while ago but the womens team was just named on Saturday! The team is Bridget Sloan, Becca Bross, Kayla Williams, and Ivana Hong. Chellsie Memmel withdrew, which means a medal on bars is pretty much not happening... I'll be surprised if any of the girls are even in finals. But Bridget and Becca could both medal in the all around, Ivana might be able to medal on beam, and Bridget and Kayla could both qualify for floor. AND Kayla is planning to compete an Amanar and laid out Rudi at worlds, which she could definitely win vault with! So yeah :)

I'm competing in the future city competition this year! The team is me, Wren (yea, Wren!), and a boy I haven't met yet but I'm very excited to get the whole team together and start working! This is definitely going to be harder then straw bridge, but I'm up for it!

DWTS started a while ago... I'll post my top 5 later but I just have to say, Mya is amazing!

I'm going to post a short story soon, probably sometime this week.

I'm also going to post some vids soon...

Yeah :)

COMMENT!!!!!!!!!

'kay thanks.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Skating Worth Watching 1 - Johnny Weir 2004 Nationals LP

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

gym update

Well, Sam Peszek has officially withdrawn from the worlds selection process. My new prediction/dream team (yes they are the same thing lol) is:
Becca Bross
Bridget Sloan
Chellsie Memmel
Kayla Williams

Alternates:
Jana Beiger
Ivana Hong
Kytra Hunter

If Chellsie's not ready, then Jana will probably be put on the team, and either Cassie Whitcomb or Mackenzie Caquatto will be alternate. Or they could just have 2 alternates, but I don't really think that's going to happen...

Monday, September 7, 2009

Nationals... was a long time ago.

But I can still write about it.
Bridget Sloan won with a 117.550, Ivana Hong was 2nd with a 117.250, and Rebecca Bross was 3rd with a 116.600. If you erased the falls (which are now a full point deduction), then Becca would have won by 0.05. You can watch the entire senior women's meet HERE. Day one has no sound.
OMG Becca is FAST on beam and bars! And the first two tumbling passes...wow.





Sam's beam was AWESOME. Her floor music annoys me a little, but i like the routine. Great tumbling as well.



Ivana's gymnastics is nice... she and Nastia have almost the exact same skills in their beam routine :)





Kayla Williams has some awesome tumbling! She won level 10 nationals a few months ago, and now she might be going to worlds :)



There's also a level 10 national champion on the junior side... Lizzy Leduc! She fell on day one and didn't make the national team, but here's her floor routine :) Right after nationals she switched to WOGA! WOGA's been getting a lot of new gymnasts these days... you can read about it HERE.



Another junior, McKayla Maroney, competed an Amanar! As far as I know, only 4 gymnasts competed that vault in Beijing.



Kyla Ross was the junior national champion.



Their were so many gymnasts injured that only 3 events were competed at a time in the senior women's competition. Inside Gymnastics even made a disabled list a few days before the competition.
Chelsea Davis hurt her back.
Mattie Larson sprained both ankles.
Sam Shapiro needed ankle surgery.
Corrie Lothrop tore her Achilles.
Olivia Courtney broke her ankle.
Jordyn Weiber sprained her hamstring.
Kamerin Moore had a torn Labrum.
Sam Peszek also has a torn Labrum, which she plans to get surgery on after worlds. In the meantime, she's still competing everything but bars.

So who's going to worlds? Only four on the team this year, since there's no team competition.
My guess is that Bridget and Becca will be the all-arounders. If Sam Peszek went, she could compete floor, beam, and i think she has a second vault. Then maybe Sam Shapiro could go as the bars specialist.  That's my dream team :)
Or Kayla could go as a floor and vault specialist. With maybe Sam Shapiro on beam and bars?

The first world selection camp is coming up soon. The second one will be later this month, and they will name the team then.

I love this video... :)


Saturday, August 22, 2009

New Layout

Is temporary. If you know where to find cute templates (Probably abstract, but anything goes) leave a comment!

cool skating

I LOVE this girls music! I'm blanking on what the first song is, but the second one is the can-can :)
And OMG you can't even tell when she's about to do a jump!


Wednesday, August 5, 2009

lolcats and fail blog









Sunday, August 2, 2009

Shh Shh Shh... You Talk To Much

I'm not expecting anyone except for Amaris to get the title...

Anyway, this post is about MARS!!!!!

For those of you who don't know what MARS is, it's Mathematics And Related Sciences camp, and it is AWESOME!!!!
It was 2 weeks long.
I was in the middle school session.
I miss Swetha (my roommate)
I miss Rachel and Selena (my spazziest friends ever)
I miss Amaris (my awesome friend in class)
I miss Danni (my councilor)
I miss dead fish and mazes (LOL Tushar, who will probably never see this but Amaris will)
I miss - wait a moment, I don't miss this one. What is chicken? LOL Geoffardy.
I miss solving the P.O.D.
I miss having major spaz moments.
I miss E-primes. (Not that I can't work on that by myself. Actually, I think I'll prove my major geekiness and do a post explaining them sometime this month. Maybe I'll also post about bizzare number systems. Not that I even took the elective...)

Sooo.... you're probably wondering what's with chicken, what Geoffardy is, what's the P.O.D., and what E-primes and bizzare number systems are. Maybe you're also wondering what' that stuff about dead fish and mazes are about. I'm not saying anything except that we didn't have any real dead fish. As for E-primes and bizzare number systems, wait and see. P.O.D. = problem of the day. And then there's Geoffardy...
Geoffardy was this act that the teachers did for the talent show. There's two Geoff's (pronounced Jeff) at the camp, Geoff Akinston (teaches Math and Art) and Geoff Birky (Everyone calls him Birky, and he teaches Math Mind (my class!) ) So anyway, they did a hilarious take-off on Jeopardy, with the 2 Geoff's competing against each other (score: 0 to 0).
Some sample questions and answers:
Q:A good way to get some sleep in the evening. A:What is go to evening program?
Q:The average MARS camper does this twice each session. A: What is take a shower?
Q:This is often served fried at lunch. A:What is chicken?
Q: This is often served fried at dinner. A:What is chicken?
Q: This is often served fried at breakfast. A:What is chicken?
Q:This is wet and green and served with chicken. A:What is chicken?
Q:This is the most popular ice cream flavor at MARS camp: A:What is chicken?
LOL
The teachers also did "The Jackson Twelve" for the talent show. Also Hilarious.
Me and Selena did an act where we walked up on stage, sat down, stayed there for 30 seconds, and walked off. All without laughing or smiling. Except I messed up really bad, which was annoying because I could always beat Selena when we practiced.
I also sang "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.
THE SECOND WEDNESDAY WAS THE BEST DAY EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the morning, in class, we did this really confusing stuff that I love about infinity and the number of numbers... it broke my brain but I loved it! Then at afternoon announcements I won math award! And I didn't think I was going to win it because Amaris had already won it the week before so I thought it was going to be a boy from our class. Then we had elective, and I was in newsletter both weeks, and I LOVE newsletter! Then in afternoon class we did RSA encryption (maybe I'll do a post about that too, because it's just so cool!) And then that night was talent show, which is always AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So yeah, best day ever :) I have to go now... I'll continue this post later.

Friday, July 17, 2009

So...

Well...I'm horrible at updating. As if we didn't know that :) Anyway, I'm going to MARS with 2 of my bffl's on Sunday, access I wont have internet while I'm there :( I'll be gone for 2 weeks, but after that I'll really try to update a little more often. So I can't think of anything interesting to post right now that won't take a really long time to write, so I'll end this post now :) 

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Sarah Palin Resigns

Was anyone expecting this?

Here's the announcement. If you can make sense of what she's saying, well, that's a LOT more than I could do.




Here's a condensed version...




All I can say is WOW.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Michael Jackson (plus some gym and skating)

Interesting idea for a montage... but it turned out amazing. But are they saying that it's the coaches or the public that doesn't care if they don't do well? Whatever it is, amazing montage, plus it's Michael Jackson.


And check out this hilarious floor routine to thriller.


Love this one.


The cover-up at the end of this one is cool.


Thriller music vid!
Watch HERE.

Cha-cha-cha to PYT


Michael Jackson's best dance moves.

Happy 4th!

Most blogs have 1 vid or 1 pic for the 4th... This one has 5 of each, so take your pick! Normal stuff at the top, funny at the bottom.
The sing-a-long:


The monument:



Jordin Sparks:


Crazy fireworks:

Amazing anthem:


More crazy fireworks:

Muppets:


Crocs:

Floor routine: (she's from Romania...weird music choice!)


lol:

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Diversity wins!

Apparently I chose well for the first talent video, because they won BGT! I already linked to their audition, but I'll link to it again HERE. I don't like their semi-final as much, but you can watch it HERE.
And here is their final! Absolutely amazing...


Gym meet!

It was great! I was competing advanced, which is the highest level, and is also the only level where we get to choreograph our own routines. Cat (yes, that is how you spell it!), who is in both of my classes, was also competing advanced. Catherine and Rebecca (not my sister, and different Rebecca) were also advanced. Catherine comes on Thursday as well, but we're in different groups. I've never been in the same class with Rebecca, but I've known her for about a year. The only girl I didn't know was Jessica, who is with Catherine and Rebecca on Saturdays. Most of the girls are trying out for team this Saturday. I know Jessica and Catherine are, and I think Rebecca is. Cat, are you? (leave a comment, Cat!) Ms. Heidi was our coach. First we went to tramp. I don't remember how everyone did on tramp, but I messed up and still got a 6.00! (the highest score you can get is a 6!) My routine was definitely not perfect, but I got bonus because I had 2 "upside down" skills. Jessica fell on her dismount, but still got 5.95! And then they changed her score to a 6 after everyone had gone! Our scores were proof that the judging is horrible, but who cares...
Cat volunteered to go first on beam (you're crazy!), and she did the routine I choreographed for her! *does happy dance* She scared me on her candlestick, because she was so close to the end of the beam I thought she was going to fall! Then I went. It was good(ish) but it could definitely have been better. I was the only person to get a spot on my cartwheel, but I was also the only person who never fell. I made my forward roll! You'd think that if you can do one on the ground it can't be that much harder on the beam, but not the case! It is so easy to fall on those! btw, we all used the beam with the squishy mat under it :)
Our next rotation was vault and bars. We had some epic fails...
Cat went first on vault, and, um, it was, um, interesting? um. Her first vault (handspring) she didn't really get enough power, and she couldn't get over. Ms. Hiedi was just trying to keep her from falling while Cat was trying to get over... I don't remember how this vault ended, but it was funny! (sorry, Cat) For her second vault she did a handspring instead of the half-on, and this time it worked. Then Rebecca went. I think what happened was she tripped right before she reached the springboard, and then she did a bellyflop over the vault. Luckily, they didn't count it. At least Ms. Hiedi didn't, I don't know about the judges! Then she did her handspring and half-on, and this time it worked! I don't remember who went next, but we'll pretend Catherine did. She did 2 good handsprings. Then Jessica did a handspring and a half-on. They were great! I was last, and I did 2 handsprings. On the first one I took a huge step, then almost sat it down, and then took another step. The second was a bit better. I watched the video, and omg I need to work on form! Then bars. I think Cat went first again? It was pretty good. I was second, and it was fine until my back hip-circle! I went around with a bit to much power, and end hanging from the bar is some sort of weird position. Time for pullover #2! Then I went to the high bar, and did some stuff up there. And I stuck the landing! Lets just say Jessica went next. She was great, but did the exact same thing in her back hip! Except that her arms were straight when she "fell" and mine weren't, so she had a harder time getting back up! Catherine did great! She did a kip (!) with a spot of course. If it was without, that would be amazing! Rebecca accidently went around twice in her stride circle.
I told you we had some epic fails!
Then floor! Cat was good! I did pretty well! I got a spot on my kickover (urgh!). I did it the week before at open gym, but then I couldn't do it on Tuesday. :( then I went to close to the edge of the floor near the end. But it turned out ok. Rebecca was good. The number of walkovers in that routine was scary! Catherine was impressive! She had forgot her routine paper at home, and she didn't know her routines. She got through the other events, but she was totally improvising on floor! It was actually pretty good! She forgot some of the requirements, but it was still impressive! Jessica's floor was amazing!!! Ms. Nikki choreographed it, and it was the only routine with real dance choreography! (that would be the one thing in choreography that I have a hard time with) Not only was it the best choreographed routine, but she also had the hardest skills! Her back tumbling pass was a roundoff back-handspring! The only other person to do a back-handspring was Catherine, and she got a spot. The routine got a 6, which definitely did not surprise me!
So then awards. We were last. Of course. :) Tramp, me and Jessica tied for 1st with our "perfect" scores. Rebecca won beam. She was really surprised! I was 2nd. Vault I also got 2nd on. Jessica won. (unsurprisingly, since she was the only one who didn't mess up and did the half-on)
I don't remember who won bars (either Cat or Catherine, I think) but I got 4th, which surprised me because I thought I would be last! Floor Jessica won (obviously), and me and Cat tied for last. :) Good job Catherine!
I didn't actually see any of Rebecca's (now we're talking about my sister) routines at the meet, but I watched the video, and here's how she did. btw, she was competing novice. Vault: Pretty good! She messed up a bit on her second vault, but it was ok. Bars: A few mess-ups, but good! Floor: I don't know why, but she had to start the routine 3 times! Wrong music? Once she started, it was great. Tramp: Some mess-ups, but as always, an amazing straddle jump! Beam: Was great! Sorry, I don't know any scores or placements. (Rebecca, leave a comment!)
So for me, this is how it turned out.
Tramp: "perfect" 6! 1st place
Beam: I think a 5.75. I had this written down somewhere, if I ever find it I'll update. 2nd place.
Vault: Either 5.1 or 5.2. 2nd place.
Bars: 4.75 (I think. It was in the higher part of the 4's) 4th place.
Floor: Somewhere between 5.1 and 5.75. Yes, I know that that's a huge range! 4th place.
I can't wait for the next one!
UPDATE: Bars might have been a 4.8 not 4.75. And beam was 5.75.
UPDATE 2: I watched the awards, and Catherine got 2nd on floor! For an improvised routine thats really good! If anyone actually wants me to post the full results (no scores, just placements) just comment on this and I will.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Sorry!

My goal is to post every day... that obviously didn't happen this weekend. It's not that I don't have ideas - I have plenty - I just never got around to it.
The spring gym meet was on Saturday. I will be posting that soon, probably tomorrow. No vids, sorry. If anyone wants to watch it, either come over to my house, or I can email it to you. (it's an imovie)
After the meet we went to the youth dreamers open house. I will be posting about the youth dreamers sometime in the next week.
Sunday was the last day of hebrew school. Yey! Oh, and we had graduation on Thursday, which was actually kind of fun. Maybe I'll post about that to!
Then we had our last D&D session until August. It was a wrap-up from our first adventure, but we're already heading into our 2nd!
In the next week or 2, I'll be having a few polls (or I might do it in the comments section, I'm not sure yet) about what you like on this blog, what you don't like, what you want, etc. I'm also going to write a post about why I love comments, which will hopefully be up by Friday. It should be amusing, and please read it because I'm actually going to be saying something. (instead of just laughing)
So, until then, I'll leave you with this awesome video! I absolutely LOVE riverdance!


Thursday, May 28, 2009

Week 7

Don't forget the men! Seriously...there's some cool stuff in this vid! Click mute if you can't stand the music (mom).



The music that starts at about 1:45 is pirates of the caribbean, which is my floor music for the meet on saturday!

See-ya-hum-bug...

See-ya-hum-bug-koo-koo-ninny-queen-kos-see-ya-hum-bug-koo-koo-ninny-queen-kos

That's not how you do it, Rebecca!

Try this.


Awesome!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Permission to fly

"Permission to fly
Nothing it can measure
Inspiration is forever
I dont need no ones permission to fly"




I LOVE THIS SONG!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Freeze in Grand Central - AWESOME!

I wish I was there!


Monday, May 25, 2009

There's a thing called TALENT... (1)

This is awesome! BGT (Britian's got talent) is awesome! Diversity rock on!

Embedding disabled, so click HERE.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

gym week 6 - china

Well. I'm a bit late this week. To bad...
This week is a montage of Chinese gymnastics by Nade00. I chose it because I think it really shows how beautiful gymnastics can be. Plus I love the song :) Ok, don't ask me why, but I just tried pasting into this post, and it worked, so I guess I'll embed it. Enjoy!


Wednesday, May 20, 2009

And the winer of dwts is...

Shawn Johnson!

Yea!

I'm on my dads computer so that i can paste. So, here is her perfect 30 freestyle!



You can see the paso doble HERE. Watch the judges advising the stars HERE.

And here are the results!




happy happy happy! happy spaz happy happy!

oh and i'm annoyed that gilles was ahead of mellissa. cuz mellissa rocked!

Monday, May 18, 2009

Let the countdown begin...

The school year is almost over, and summer is coming up fast...
2 weeks until end of hebrew school + gymnastics
3 weeks until the end of school (yes, I know I'm homeschooled, and yes, I know I'm probably going to do stuff over the summer, but WHATEVER! 3 weeks left of school)
4 weeks until we leave for Maine.
5 weeks until MICA starts
8 weeks until GS camp with Rachel and Selena!
10 weeks until MARS... with Rachel (and her friend Rachel) and Selena and loads of other awesome friends!

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE EVERYONE!!!!!!!

Last concert...

The last concert of the season was yesterday. It was actually really good. And fun :) There's still the cabaret left, but I'm not performing because it's the same night as the gym meet. It's been a long season, with 4 concerts. We've been working since January. And now it's over. And I'm sad. :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( in the very unlikely chance that anyone from choir ever sees this, I MISS YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lizzy Leduc!

You might remember that the week 4 gymnastics vid was a floor routine by Lizzy Leduc. Well, that was from about 2 years ago when she was level 8, and just last weekend she won level 10 nationals for her age group! Congrats, Lizzy! (lol, even though she'll never see this) Oh, and this means that she made the JO national team!

Skating news

Most of this is old news, but I'm guessing most of you don't know yet (probably meaning you don't care, but I need to dump my useless knowledge somewhere). So here goes.
SASHA COHEN IS ATTEMPTING A COMEBACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good new for US figure skating... bad news for all the skaters trying to make the team. But who knows, maybe she won't make it very far. Her ankle is currently injured, and she's starting training in June. Because she was a silver medalist in the Torino 2006 Olympics, she is automatically qualified to nationals. (She also competed in 2002, and placed 4th) She has said that she would except an invitation to compete a skate america. Skate America is part of the Grand Prix, which is a series of 6(?) competitions from which the top 6 skaters are invited to the final. Skaters hoping to take part in the final compete in 2 events each. Since Sasha did not compete last year, she will have to be invited by the organizers. Skate America seems likely, if only for the TV ratings. A 2nd event is less likely, but not out of the question. Assignments will be given at the end of this month.
Kimmie Meissner is keeping her short program from last year. Her new long program music will be Romeo and Juliet. (love you, twitter)
Emily Hughes is taking the year off of school to concentrate on skating.
Ok, now I've said something about each of the skaters on the 2006 Olympics team (the ladies, that is) and I can't think of anything else, so we'll leave it at that. FYI, for ladies and pairs the US has 2 spots at the Olympics next year, and for men's and ice dance we have 3. (3 is the max)

UPDATE: Michelle Kwan sounds like a maybe for a comeback? Those tweets sound a bit like hints... Click HERE.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

dwts

Well, for those of you who don't know, Shawn Johnson is on dancing with the stars. And... she made it to finals! Her partner is Mark Ballas, who won with figure skater Kristi Yamaguci in season 6. So, while we (or maybe you guys don't care, and i'm the only one waiting. lol) are waiting for Monday and Tuesday (when the final is), here are all the dances she's done so far!