Kansas City Ballet Intensive Analysis

A heart, like a magnet, with return home, on the opposite sides of the world or not. Sometimes it takes a great journey to appreciate the little things in life. It took a trip away from home for me to realize this. This past summer, I spent 5 weeks of my sunny days in Kansas City, Missouri for a ballet intensive. This trip helped me realize the importance of family and comfort. Some people say, ‘home is where the heart is’, during my experience, this statement reined true. I believe that the comfort of knowing the people around you can substitute homesickness, but almost everyone, at some point in their lives, catch the ‘virus’. Last fall, I auditioned to go to a ballet intensive for the summer. The following February, I found out that I had been accepted into the Boston Ballet Intensive and the Kansas City Ballet Intensive. Because of communication circumstances, I accepted the Kansas City Ballet’s offer. I was very excited because this was my first trip away from home by myself. I was very excited, yet very nervous because I wouldn’t know anyone else there. 772 miles. The distance from my house to the Kansas City Ballet School is 772 miles. My mom would drive me to Kansas, and then she and my dad would come to pick me up. Well, that was the plan at least. I gave my dad and sister a bear hug before leaving with my mom. The trip to Missouri was long, but my mom and I had a good time. When we finally arrived, we were a day early. We spent the day scoping out the dorm building, where I’d be staying. I’m not going to lie, my mom and I both were wondering if it was the same building from the pictures online. Even so, we moved on …show more content…
I learned from my experience that home is where the heart is, and sometimes you must be taken away from something before you realize your love for it. Everyone gets the virus; it’s just a matter of how you heal from