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At the Staten Island World Dance Thingy. She was quite good, and managed to create the impression that she'd practiced more than once in the past two years.

It doubled as a dance recital for the local danc school, I think, which gave them a ready-made audience. Ana really got into watching the African Dance Class, and we were all impressed with various aspects of the school, and at $1000 for 40 weeks, that's not a bad deal at all.

So I'll nag Jenn and 'dul about it, and money will be scrounged from somewhere, and I do believe Ana may start her very first dance class soon. Aw. She's all grown up!

Of course, today I got to reprise my role as general fetch-and-carry girl. What is it about performances? I had major flashbacks to one too many dance recitals where there would be some minor catastrophe at the last minute. Because that's all this was. We didn't have candles. The candles were too big. Cutting them apart mutilated them. And on and on and on.

Theoretically, this could all be prevented with proper planning, but I've never yet seen that happen.