Dancing Munchkins
Hi My name is Rebekah Davison. I am nine, and I have CF. We all know that we need to do good exercise to keep our lungs healthy. My favourite exercise is Irish dancing. I started doing Irish dancing when I was 5, at the Carroll School of Irish Dance. I think it is great fun. We do lots of skipping and jumping, and it makes me work really hard.
My teacher's name is Genevieve, and she has great ideas for our concerts, and helps us prepare for competitions. Our concert last year was the "Wizard of Oz", I was a munchkin. It was great, my little sisters were also munchkins, and they were also pieces of the yellow brick road.
So far, I have competed at four competitions, which were great fun. I got to wear my special Irish dancing frock, and have my hair curly. At the competitions, everyone gets something for trying their best, sometimes you receive a trophy, other times it is a medal, and you feel really good about doing your best. At my last competition I won one dance, and came second in my two others, which means I can learn harder dances now. I even did some dancing in our school talent show last year and won first prize, it was great. The only thing was that I had to go to CF clinic in the morning before the talent show and I went to clinic with my hair in these spiky curlers, Mum said I looked like an echidna or a hedgehog. After clinic we raced back to school just in time for me to dance, but it was so much fun.
I have just started to learn the hard shoe dances, and I am looking forward to making lots of noise. I love Irish dancing, and I hope other people with CF will enjoy it too.
