Hello! My identify is Charlotte Manfield and I’ll be running a blog about my expertise on the 2024 Solo Ice Dance Camp in Allen, Texas! I’m so grateful to be competing in my fourth 12 months of solo dance for this season and I’m trying ahead to telling you guys all in regards to the camp!
Friday, February 16, 2024
This morning, I wakened at 5:30 a.m. to shortly pack up the remainder of my issues earlier than we left for the airport. We left at 6:00 and bought to Baltimore/Washington Worldwide Airport by round 7:30. Fortunately, the TSA line wasn’t lengthy, and it solely took a few minutes to get by. Since we had some spare time, we grabbed a espresso from Starbucks and headed to our gate. I watched some YouTube and Netflix for about an hour after which talked to a few of my associates going to the camp and on the identical flight as me. At round 9:40 we boarded the airplane and took off. We purchased wifi on the airplane in order that I might tune into the Worldwide Solo Dance Seminar whereas we have been flying, and at about 2:00 p.m. we touched down. From the Dallas Fort Price Airport, we took an Uber to get to our resort which is located subsequent to the rink.
We spent a bit of time in our resort room after which grabbed some lunch in addition to ran to Goal to get some good breakfasts for the subsequent few days. After we bought again, I modified and went to the rink to have my first non-public lesson with Kyle Stevenson. It was wonderful and from 6:40 to 7:10 p.m. we labored quite a bit on my free dance. Straight after this, we determined to stroll round and discover a good place for dinner. There was a restaurant named Cheddar’s that appeared tremendous fascinating so we determined to go there to see how the meals was. They gave us these wonderful croissants with honey butter as an appetizer on the home, and for an entree, I ordered salmon on rice with a home salad. It was completely scrumptious and I knew we’d be coming again there once more quickly. We bought again to the resort and I met up with a few of my associates I hadn’t seen for a very long time within the foyer earlier than heading to mattress at 9:00. In the present day was an thrilling day I’m so completely happy to be right here at camp and I’m trying ahead to sharing this expertise with you guys!
~ Charlotte
Saturday, February 17, 2024
This morning, I wakened at 7:00 am to arrange for my firstclass. On the way in which to the rink at 8:00, I finished by Armor Coffe Co. with my dad and mom to get a number of the finest espresso I’d waited a 12 months for, and we fortunately loved it whereas watching the opposite ranges doing their first lessons on the ice. At 8:30, I warmed up a bit and laced up my skates, preparing for our spin class. From 9:00 to 9:30 we had spins and it was so cool to see everybody once more and have a enjoyable time. After spins, we headed to the concourse for our rhythm dance replace class from 9:40 to 10:10 and our worldwide solo dance presentation from 10:10 to 10:40. Each of those talks gave us wonderful data and we left to go do off-ice stroking at one other place on the concourse from 11:30 to 12:00 pm. This class helped me a lot, particularly in being conscious of my posture by actions, and we moved on to lunch upstairs. My dad and mom went out to lunch at a cute restaurant whereas I used to be consuming mine on the rink and took some photos of the little quotes they’d all around the partitions to ship to me. I chatted with my associates whereas consuming my lunch and watching different teams, and at 12:50 all of us went again downstairs to a gathering room for our athletic fortitude class till 1:20.
From there, all of us ran again upstairs for our Intro to 80s dance class with Kyle from 1:30 to 2:30 and it was so unimaginable. Everybody was having such a good time and all of us have been in a position to get into the actions and elegance, hyping up whoever was on the ground dancing. It was really a tremendous class and after that, we had a protracted break till our ice grooves class. Within the meantime, I bought some espresso and went again to Cheddar’s with my household for some dinner by which I ordered salmon but once more, although this time with some corn on the aspect. It was scrumptious and I bought again to the rink at 7:00 pm for sophistication. We took our annual senior camp photograph after which Joel taught us this tremendous entertaining dance to “Texas Maintain ‘Em” by Beyoncé which was undoubtedly a spotlight of my day. I went again to the resort at 7:40 and ended up hanging out with a bunch of my associates till all of us needed to depart round 9:00 pm. I went again to my room, took a bathe, and did some skincare earlier than heading off to mattress at 10:00 so I might get some good relaxation for tomorrow morning.
Goodnight!
~ Charlotte
Sunday, February 18, 2024
In the present day I wakened at 7:00 am and bought able to go to the rink. My dad and mom and I each ordered espresso from Armor on the app, and my dad went out to seize it and introduced it again whereas we have been getting our issues collectively. I ate a banana for breakfast, and after that, we went to the rink at 8:30 and I had my espresso whereas watching the children on the ice. Our firstclass of the day began at 9:10 and we had enjoyable going over edge parts till 9:40. Subsequent was off-ice dance with Kyle from 10:10 to 11:10 and this was equally as wonderful because the 80s class we did with him. After dance, we laced up our skates and bought on the ice from 11:50 to 12:30 for our sample dance class. Right here, we did our sample dance sort step sequence in addition to our choreographic rhythm sequence which was thrilling. We had lunch after this from 12:35 to 1:05 after which went to the assembly room for a choreo parts class at 1:15. This class was tremendous cool as they performed movies of several types of distinctive choreo parts that I’d by no means seen earlier than. That ended at 1:55 and we headed off to our vital guidelines replace on the concourse from 2:10 to 2:40.
Afterwards, we went to our GOEs and parts assembly which was with the junior group so I used to be in a position to see some extra of my associates. This class was so fascinating as we have been proven every thing there may be to learn about how GOEs and parts work. When the category ended at 3:20 we had a bit of break by which I talked with my associates till 4:10. At 4:10, everybody on the camp rushed to the stands to get a bunch camp image in our Solo Ice Dance Camp shirts after which at 4:20, we had some off ice conditioning. I then went again to the resort with a few of my associates and all of us bought prepared in our rooms to go to dinner. My dad and mom had made an enormous reservation for like 30 folks and as soon as everybody in our group was prepared, we walked from our resort over to Kelly’s. Two of my associates and I each ordered birria tacos and all of us bought Shirley temples as nicely. We made so many enjoyable reminiscences there and the dad and mom and associates all had such a beautiful time. After dinner, all of us went again to the resort and chilled collectively earlier than leaving at 8:30 to go to mattress. Again at my room, I did some skincare, took one other bathe, and went to mattress at 10:00 pm. In the present day was such a enjoyable day and I’m excited for my one on one tomorrow!
~ Charlotte
