Karis Pendleton

I’m so excited to tell you all what I’ve been up to and how everything has been going on recently.

High School is going really well!! The work is hard at times but its good. Last week I had a Biology test. I was so scared I was going to fail. I was scared I was going to fail not because I didn’t know the material but because the test was a unit test and it was worth a lot of points!!!! This was a perfect storm for me to have anxiety and testing forgetfulness.

While I tested I took my time and though I completed test I and made sure to review all my answers before submitting and I am so glad I double checked my work because a lot of my answers I had to fix …I am proud to report I GOT AN A!!!!! I’m so proud of myself for conquering what I didn’t think I could accomplish.💪🏾💞

My dance friends that I attend High school with are in almost all the same school classes together. We decided to form a little study group. When we have tests coming up we can prepare together in advance. About a week ago, my friends came over to my host house and we studied for our history test together. After studying one of my friends parents picked us up and we went to a festival and then went bowling. We had such a great time together. It’s so nice to hangout outside of ballet and school. 💜School can be hard at times but when it’s tough my friends and I lean on each other!!

Ballet is amazing!! I’m truly grateful I have the opportunity to dance at CPYB!!! I have improved so much in very little time. The teachers really like me and are very proud of the hard work I’m putting in. 🙂 Last week we had the honor of having a former New York City Ballet soloist guest teach us. She also taught me during the summer intensive. I was very pleased to see her. She remembered me which was so cool!!!! I really loved her class, its very technical and big on dynamics. It was such a treat to see her again. ☺️🫶🏾☺️🫶🏾☺️

Right now I’m in the intense training part of the year so there is a lot of hard work going on. I’m really putting in the work and seeing results which is exciting. I’m also building friendships with some of my friends at dance that I met this summer which is nice. This weekend two of my friends from dance and I hung out!! They came over to my house and we did some fun fall activities!! We painted pumpkins, listened to music, watched Hocus Pocus, and made pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies. I had such a blast. I love hanging out with them, they’re such sweet people. 🥰🥰🥰

Something I love about training at CPYB is that I get to be closer to home. A little over a week ago I went home because I had an orthodontist appointment. Normally I have dance on the weekend but they cancelled it I got to go home on Friday and stay through Monday!!! While I was home I did some really fun things!!! First and foremost I got to spend much needed quality time with my family. It was so great to see them. We went to the farmers market together and picked up some fresh produce. 😋 One night we watched a movie. I had such a fun time.😘😘😘

Aside from spending time with my family I also got to see my friends!!! My church back at home has a youth group. Whenever I can, I try to go. Luckily I had time while I was home, so I went to youth group!! It was so fun. I really loved getting to see all of my youth leaders and friends. One of my friends I hadn’t really talked to or seen in a really long time. We got to hang out a little and catch up at youth group which was really nice. I really missed my friend. I’m happy we got to see each other and talk again. 💖🥰💖 I also have this other group friends at youth group and we talk a lot. But it had been a while since the whole group had been together so it was nice to have everyone in the same room. We talked about school, sports, and HOMECOMEING!!!!! I had such a blast. I was very happy that I got to see all my church friends. ☺️💕🎉

Something super exciting that I did while I was home was 🥁🥁🥁… I went HOMECOMING dress shopping!!!!!! I’ve always wanted to go to HOCO since I was a toddler. Trust me, I know it might sound crazy but baby Karis always wanted to be like the older girls. The fact that I’m at this season in my life feels so unreal. My school’s HOCO is in a few weeks so I wanted to make sure I went dress shopping while I was home so I could do it with some of my favorite people. I went dress shopping with my mom, one of my best friends and her mom!!! It was so special. My friend and I tried on so many dresses. We did not think we were going to find the perfect dress that day but we did!!! Both of our dresses are so pretty. After we got our dresses we went and grabbed Boba!!! This was such a special day and I’m so happy I got to experience this with my mom and best friend. I will always cherish this day forever. 🥹🥰💞✨

I hope you all enjoyed my blog post!! I will try my best to update you in the comings weeks. Thank you for all your support!! 💜💜💜