August 31st - September 3rd

Tuesday;
Today I had to get up quite early so we could get to Milton Keynes. I had a very long journey with mum and we stopped half way at the services. When we finally arrived we picked up Lydia and Susan at the train station. We then had a short drive to the stage door to pick up the apartment keys. When we finally saw our apartment we loved it. It was very modern and hi tech. We spent some time chilling when Molly arrived before we went to the theater to meet the orphans.

We loved the orphans and they were so fun and nice we couldn't wait to see what they were like on stage. The little girl who played molly was so cute she was six and was very good for her age. We spent quite some time doing sound checks and rehearsing before we prepared for opening night. I was Tessie not Annie but I enjoyed it anyway. So much for a bad dress/tech a good show. Our dress/tech was a disaster and so was the show. Su Pollard's mic came on when Lydia started singing Maybe and the cloth came in late and nearly knocked the orphans out. Not bad in one night, Huh? After a tiring show we went home and almost straight away to bed.

Wednesday;
Pinch, punch first day of the month, says Molly when we wake up. (Something like that anyway.) I was so excited because not only was I going to be playing Annie in the matinee but on Thursday I was going home to start on my first day of high school! I ate breakfast, got dressed and packed my bag in about an hour. (I'm not a morning person.) After a couple of minute walk we came to the theater. We signed in and went straight to the dressing room, after a short delay because we wanted to stroke Danny and Suzie, so almost straight there. We got our jazz shoes on and went down for warm up with the rest of the cast. Caroline is a really good dance captain and does a really fun warm up. Jamie is really good at accompanying our vocal warm up too. We ran up stairs afterwords and threw on our costumes. We were ready before we even had the 15 minute call, wigs and all! The show went so well which I was very thankful for and the crowd gave a huge cheer for me at the end, of course the silly dog got a bigger one than me! Oh well I guess I should learn to be more dog like, Huh?! Mum and I had tea with the others then we had a long home. I had an early - ish night to be ready for the first day of school in the morning.

Thursday and Friday...
have been spent in school which was very fun. On Thursday I almost missed the bus on the way home and when I was in the bus the bus driver forgot to shut the bus' doors. So we were on a bus going at 40mph with doors wide open. How not to be safe on a bus me thinks. Today was good fun because it was like a proper school day with all the changing of class'. In science we even lit bunsen burners!