I am so not graceful enough for something like this. It took ballet for, like, two weeks. (I quit because at the end of each class we had to line up to curtsy and thank our instructor, and I could never remember her name.)
Today's bonus prize goes perfectly with ballet on ice, because it's ballet in a book. (Or, at least, a ballerina in a book.) THE SPLENDOR FALLS by Rosemary Clement-Moore. Here is the blurb:
Can love last beyond the grave?Ooh, dark and spooky and mysterious. And two boys! What's not to adore?
Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship.
Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand.
Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well?
To enter today's contest, tell me about about something you quit, but wish you hadn't. I have oh-so-many things. Ballet, for one. And the flute (that lasted a month). And swimming, which I have done much of since high school. And signing, though I was never very good. Well, you get the idea. Answer in comments for your chance to win Oh. My. Gods. and Goddess Boot Camp and THE SPLENDOR FALLS by Rosemary Clement-Moore.
ICE DANCING CONTEST
Answer this question: What have you quit that you wish you hadn't?
PRIZES
(1) copy of Oh. My. Gods.
(1) copy of Goddess Boot Camp
(1) copy of THE SPLENDOR FALLS by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Enter below and check back tomorrow (and the day after that and the day after that) for a new contest. Winners of all contests will be posted after February 28th.
And don't forget the other contests:
Gold Medal Contest
COOP2 1 HEIST SOCIETY by Ally Carter
COOP2 2 MY SOUL TO TAKE and MY SOUL TO SAVE by Rachel Vincent
COOP2 3 TATTOO and FATE by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
COOP2 4 BALLADS OF SUBURBIA by Stephanie Kuehnert
COOP2 5 LOVESTRUCK SUMMER by Melissa Walker
COOP2 6 TMI by Sarah Quigley
COOP2 7 JARS OF GLASS, DREAM FACTORY, and THE CUPCAKE QUEEN by Heather Hepler
COOP2 8 HEX HALL by Rachel Hawkins
COOP2 9 THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY by Kay Cassidy
Hugs,
TLC
65 comments:
The piano! I just love how it is now. But the seven year old me didn't care much for music and I am now so mad at myself for it!
I wish I didn't stop Dancing I used to do it all the time any type of dancing I had to stop b/c school work interfered wish I didn't now I miss it \
Denise
Violin. I started to take lessons, but then went back to school, so I didn't have time.
my first novel. I started at the age of 8 and never finished it.
What I regret most is that in addition to quitting, i also deleted it, so i can't even go back and work on it anymore or read it.
Definitely piano and saxophone. I come from a very musical family and, even though I know that music isn't my true talent, I wish I had given myself more time to develop more of a feel for actually creating music.
I wish i hadnt quit piano. I was good at it, but i was too young and get bored...now I miss playing piano sometimes
I wish I hadn't quit gymnastics or dancing. I kind of wish I hadn't quit my hobby of fashion design, I used to spend hours just sketching or trying to make clothes with my best friend - I wanted to go to college to study it but my mum basically told me I wasn't allowed to, after that I just sketched randomly every once in a while but the passion for it had kind of burned out.
Oh and I wish I hadn't dropped higher level English to take another year of art that I didn't actually need - I mean, I loved art but English would've been more useful and I loved English too, I just let my hate of the teacher make me drop it.
Oh and music, I wish I had continued to study music - I really want to play guitar and piano but I stopped taking music classes after I'd just started to learn the basics.
I think swimming, but I didn't want to finish with a very big back and then piano, but with school, English classes... (because my mother language is spanish), it was too much for me.
Hey There! The one thing I quit and really wish I hadn't was playing the trumpet! I was in my high school band and I traveled summers with the local Drum Corps. Of course, neither of those could continue indefinitely. But, I really wish I hadn't given up playing entirely! As they say, however, life does tend to get in the way!
Piano lessons. I want to start playing again!
I'm not sure- I never really had the time to take up anything, but I would love to try and take classes for photography, it sounds amazing ;)
Horse riding for me. I didn't have a choice (my stable closed down) but I wish I hadn't! Now I'm living in a city without a car so I can't get out to the stables, or I would pick it back up again.
I wish I hadn't quit soccer, I was pretty good at it, and i still think that it's so much fun to play!
Guitar, mostly because the teacher wasn't very competent and I didn't have a lot of other options to choose from.
my dance classes! I was a fanatic jazz and tap student, but when I got a job I quit because I didnt have the time for it anymore..such a loss..
basketball, when I was in middle school. I thought I was overweight and was afraid I wouldn't be able to keep up. But if I'd have stayed, I could have worked through it.
I wish I had not have quit clarinet. Even though I hated it, it would have made learning other instruments a bit easier.
I wish I hadn't quit playing piano. I quit two years ago because, after playing for 11 years, I just got tired of it and I was frustrated with my teacher. But, I'm slowly starting to play again on my own. I plan to enter my school's talent competition in two months. (:
Grace L
I wish I hadn't quit my job as a summer camp counselor-in-training mid-way thru the summer. I wish I had stuck it out and finished the summer. Who knows, maybe I would've had more fun!
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I wish I hadn't quite the Clarinet - I was good and the only reason I quit was because of the music teacher at my middle school. I still have the piano tho.
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i wish i hadn't quit piano lessons.
Writing. I guess I haven't quit exactly, but I've been way lazy about it (it's been months since I've even looked at my story) and I never finished the novel I was working on even though I had the rest planned out.
dancing, gymnastics, swimming, volleyball...the list goes on.
Kempo Karate...got my junior black belt then went to college and quit so I could concentrate on school. Wish I'd kept up with it...would be in so much better shape now!
Oddly enough, Ballet. I was a natural at it, and always got stuck in the classes with the older girls (who didn't really like me). I finally quit after six years, because all the bullying and drama got to be too much for me.
Also swimming, I did it for one year, but the coach was a jerk, so I didn't go back.
I'm not really a quiter but i DID quit playing the violin (i had a mean teacher), karate (they wanted us to BOW to them, i mean COME ON!),and figure skating. I dont really regret quitting these because now i know a LOT of karate and i can play the violin. i do sort of wish i had kept skating because i was VERY good (not that i'm being big headed or anything!). but, maybe in my next lifetime i'll be a famous figure skater.
Aaww I so wished I hadn't quit dancing. Back in high school I used to dance Flamenco. It was a really great experience, but when I started college I just didn't have the time and energy. I wished I had stuck around to continue dancing with my group.
I wish I hadnt quit soccer, or guitar, or karate. They were all things I did when I was very young, but if I would have kept with them, I might have been good.
Honestly, it feels like I never started anything. Therefore I couldn't quit anything. I guess when I was younger I was more into sports, but I lost interest somewhere in middle school, and now I wish I hadn't. Never too late though. ;)
i wish i hadn't quit trumpet my eighth grade year. i was seriously good. i had superior medals all over the place, i was the youngest member in the community college symphonic orchestra...i miss it so much! i should start back again.
You know, I actually have never really quit anything. Well, anything that I could have helped. I had to give up orchestra though and I wish the school I'm at now had it. But nope, only band.
Piano. I often wish that I had kept up my lessons. Just today actually, I was thinking about finding some sheet music of something to try to play. I miss it. And my mom quit when she was younger and wishes she hadn't because she thinks it's too late to learn. I'm 17 so I can still pick it back up.
Also, the clarinet and saxophone. I played in middle school and haven't touch either since. =[
I wish I hadn't quit clarinet. Not exactly my favorite instrument but I played it for 3 years in middle school then quit and now I can't remember how to play it. what a waste.
Another great post thanks!
I wish I hadn't quit playing the Bass. It was something I really enjoyed as a kid and wish I had kept up with it.
I wish I hadn't quit trying to learn how to play piano. I could have been really good by now! Haha. :)
I quit my dance lessons when I started high school and I regret it even to this day. I was good at it atleast I thought so :)
I quit art school 'cause I couldn't find enough time. I miss it sorely, so I'm trying to live it again through a character who's an artist :))
I really wish I hadn't quit tennis.
Swimming lessons. Since I am afraid of deep water, I think it would have helped me to conquer this fear by learning to swim.
Drama! I took Drama lessons for seven years while I was at school, and though I wasn't brilliant, I got by, and I absolutely loved it! It was the most freeing thing ever. I stopped doing Drama after my A-levels because I'm far too shy, so I was never going to carry on with it as I would have to act with people I didn't know - plus it's not a very stable career path. But I miss it so much! As nerve wracking as it was, there's nothing like the thrill of being on stage!
Dance lessons. I wish i hadn't quit. As a kid i was scared of the instructor, i don't know why..... Now when i think of it, he seemed kinda alright.
I wish I hadn't quit swimming. I mean, I can do it anytime, but swimming professionally? Not really. Boo.
Are you kidding--soccer, swimming, running track, guitar and clarinet. I pretty much wasted all the awesome talents I'd worked-up in high school and haven't done it since. :(
I played ringette, way back when girls hockey wasn't an option & really loved it...until I got older & politics took over. I wish I didn't give up the sport and wonder if I would have moved onto hockey at some point?
I gave up my violin and viola. They are now under the bed - but I wish I hadn't stopped playing since I didn't pursue music in college. I sometimes think about getting them fixed up and play again. I would have to relearn how to read music probably.
VOILAS RULE!
I am another who regrets giving up piano. It was torture when I was a kid, but now I wish I had the time to learn to play
I wish I didn't quit gymnastics sometimes, but I know that that season of my life was over.
I wish I never quit being in band. I have no regrets about dropping the clarinet, but I wish I would have switched up to drums like I really wanted to.
I quit many things that I now wished I hadn't. I wish I had either continued ballet, gymnastics, or figure skating. I wish I was still played either the guitar or the piano, too. There are many things I wish I hadn't quit.
Playing instruments. I played french horn in high school, flute in junior high and then I tried to teach myself how to play the trumpet in my free time when I graduated. I really miss playing the french horn, even if I wasn't the best musician in the world. I just love the way it sounds. I love listening to the Harry Potter theme song because it has a great french horn part in it.
school before completing my A levels :(
i would choose racism. if we could get along we could work together to solve the other problems in the world. but if it really was so easy as snapping my fingers i wouldnt just stop at one problem.
When I was younger, I begged Mom for ice skating lessons...I always loved how beautiful and graceful the skaters were. After one beginners class filled with kids that could actually skate while I slipped, slid, and fell directly on my butt...I called it quits. Mom let me have my way cuz she didn't like to see me get hurt, but I still wish I had learned how to do it.... *daydreams*
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Swimming competively. I did it all throughout grade school through the YMCA and joined the modified team in middle school and varsity in high school. I didn't quit I just didn't keep doing it after school finished. It's my one true love and I wish I never stopped.
I wish I hadn't quit piano. I followed the Royal Conservatory of Music programme, which consists of ten levels. I stopped after getting my level nine certification. Now, after not playing for three years, it'll take a lot more to get back into it. After all the effort put into it, I should've just stuck it out for another year or so and gotten fully certified. :(
Thai boxing!
was quite good actually! But then my jaw got loose and I had to go through surgery for my chin...
Life is tough=(
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My mom made me play basketball and I quit after a year. Now, I really regret that and wish I could start playing again.
I regret stopping singing lessons.
I was good , worked hard and had a wide range but after a break due to the teacher's illness my parents suggested that the lessons were a bit expensive and I let them convince me without much of a struggle.
With hindsight I should have stopped playing the clarinet instead as I never practised.
I regret that I quit swimming. I was really good at it and loved it, but other things just got in the way.
I wish I didn't quit swimming. I LOVE LOVE LOVE swimming, but I also LOVE LOVE LOVE dancing, and I ended up choosing dance over the swim team because of how they ran into each other. I wish I kept working at the swimming, and I would have improved at my weaknesses when it came to competing with the swimming.
Judo. If I hadn't quit I would have been a black belt by now.
I wish I hadn't quit my art classes after fifth grade. I eventually got back into an art class but I could have done more art had I not quit. I could be better now had I not quit.
I took piano lessons for a few weeks when I was in 4th grade, but then I stopped. I wish I hadn't because I've become more interested in playing a musical instrument lately.
Having fun.
We had to build paper airplanes and I had to look at everyone else's and see them all take great heights with their pointed tips. I figured during the small 'contest' they would be able to fly extremely well. So I didn't join in. It was disappointing, more so that I know I can't laugh at myself. However we got to watch a short clip and it showed a guy not folding a paper plane but wadding it up into a ball and throwing it farther than anyone else in his class. I did do what he did, however, I only threw it a great distance - straight into a dustbin.
I think if I could have less seriousness and not let go smiling and laughing at myself, I could have a load of fun.
I wish I hadn't quit swimming lessons. I was learning to swim pretty well, but now I don't go near water. Partly that's because I dislike moisture touching me, but mostly it's because I can't swim or float.
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