Quinte FSC Showcase

This year, Quinte FSC held a 'Showcase', rather then a 'Carnival'. We weren't able to get ice at the arena we normally use for the carnival (our local OHL hockey team didn't make the playoffs this year, so they took the ice out early), so we had to host it at the arena we use for practice...our normal arena is old and has a really poor layout, so it's hard to host a 'real' ice show. Not wanting the kids to completely miss out on the experience, we put something together on a much smaller scale.

I arrived at the arena at 11am, the show was supposed to start at 2pm...and, during every minute leading up to the show, I was afraid it was going to be a disaster. It was definitely not very organized, and even the people on the 'showcase committee' seemed to be making things up as we went along. It was CHAOS!

Of course, once the kids stepped on the ice, all the stress disappeared, and things fell into place. I had choreographed three numbers for the show, and although none of them were perfect, they all went pretty well (especially considering my CanSkate groups only had two practices each, and my third group, which was a group of Program Assistants, had learned their whole number in an hour the previous Friday!).

Most importantly, all the kids said they had fun, and their smiles were proof of that. And, a bonus, many parents had very positive things to say at the end of the day! So, by the time I left the arena, the chaos of the morning had (almost) been forgotten.


I got home from the showcase in time to watch the end of the Masters! Go Phil!