August 19, 2025
Today I had my first Quince practice. After having two chambelanes and one dama drop out I was really nervous. One of my chambelanes dropped out the day of the first practice and I was very worried about how the dance would come out. We had to postpone the practices until the week after which took away two of our practices. I got extremely lucky and my friend was able to fill in his spot. I'm really grateful for that. In the following days I got another message from another chambelan saying he couldn't make it either. I was freaking out but one of my brothers friends, Alvaro said he would be willing to fit in the other spot. I want to give a huge shoutout to Isaac and props to Alvaro for stepping in. I'm really grateful for both of them.
My first dama didn't follow up with me and told me a couple weeks ahead of time she wouldn't be able to make it. I was upset but now I feel really grateful that she dropped out because now I have Melanie, my middle school and elementary bestie, as my dama.
My first practice went really well. Everyone learned the routine incredibly fast. I'm really excited to see how the rest of the practices go.