Faithe is not bougie!

I went to the "Ballet Hispanico" show at the Detroit Opera House and it was beautiful!  I really enjoyed the experience and would like to continue to go to these type of venues.  The costumes were very pretty...the music was...interesting and different.  It wasn't just a normal ballet!  It was a hispanic ballet, which added a great deal of flair and rhythm to the show.  There was this one guy in the audience who acted rather unseemly.  He kept shouting during the show when they did something really good that he liked...like he was in church or something.  It was irritating and funny at the same time.  The Detroit Opera House is BEAUTIFUL!  It was my very first time inside and I loved it.  It's a very classy and elegant place.  Next I will go to an opera.  I've always wanted to go to one of those.

On another note, allow me to vent a little...
I'm black...and I love being black. I'm sure 300 years ago I may not have felt the same way, but hey! There are some things that culturally the majority of black people just don't really participate in. And the same goes for Arabics, Chaldeans, Asians, so on and so forth. Me? I like to step out of the box every now and again. The older I get the more bored I become with the "norm." I find myself wanting to experience new things that go outside of my culture. But there are growing pains that come along with it. My friends may not yet be ready to experience these things with me (majority of them). So I may have to experience these things on my own, which is not as cool. But I'm learning some things in life you will not always experience with your friends right by your side. And even if you do, they may not appreciate them as much as you do, which takes away from the experience all together! What I have to work on is to not be afraid to experience things by myself. I can't force people to like the same things I like. And at the same time, I can't harp on them because they don't. Everybody's different! And that's perfectly fine.


I will say that I am rather disappointed of people's reactions to me going to a ballet for my birthday. It really almost got under my skin, but I just smile because I realize that this is one of the things that makes me "me." This is the "me" that is comfortable in her own skin. This is the "me" that people have grown to love and appreciate. I admit it doesn't feel good to be called "bougie," but that's what ignorant people do when they don't understand something.  I'm not bougie.  I'm just...different! :-)

L8r:
~faithful

MiMi & Faithe at Ballet Hispanico, Detroit Opera House