Not all childhood dreams fade away

When I was little, I begged my parents to sign me up for ballet lessons. My dad once agreed to sign me up, but it never happened. I can't really blame them. I had a lot of interests as a kid (surprise, surprise, right?), and they couldn't sign me up for everything I wanted to try.

I was always disappointed that I never got to take ballet though. They even let me do figure skating for a while, but never ballet. I'm sure that had something to do with the fact that I already had Polish folk dancing, but that didn't make me feel any better, really.

Now that I'm 21 and all grown up (more or less), I still can't help but wish I had gotten to take ballet. I love Polish dancing, don't get me wrong, but I just feel like people don't really take that seriously. Not only that, but it just doesn't feel quite as graceful.

I also just feel like I could make more progress with some sort of official dance class. I love the group to pieces, but I get so frustrated with how slowly we have to take things, and I hate how sloppy some of the dances are (well, most of them, really). People just don't seem to care enough.

Anyway, there's nothing like a frustrating rehearsal to bring a girl back to her childhood dreams.