Nora's First Feis

This morning Nora participated in her first Irish Feis (pronounced Fesh). A feis is an Irish dancing competition and they have many competitions through the US throughout the year. There are 3-4 that are held in St. Louis every year and one of them was this morning. She competes with kiddos that are her same age, so it isn't too cut throat and the more they compete the better they become. And the great thing about our dance school is the teacher is okay if they don't compete a lot (which I like). There is no pressure. Anyway, so we headed to the An Samhra Feis and Nora did awesome!! It was her and another little girl in her age bracket that were competing in their first feis today. I was so proud of Nora!!! I was so worried that she might not even do it, but she did and wasn't nervous at all. She came in second place and was just ecstatic and we made such a big deal about it!!! That is all she has talked about the rest of the day. She is proud of herself. Can't wait for her to continue and learn even more. She did two dances today, the light jig and the light reel. She had no idea what she was doing for the reel, but the jig she did pretty well at. The point of a first feis is to get them out there and in front of people and that is exactly what she did!!! So proud of my Nora!