A Little Bit About Me
I have an About Me page on here, but I think it only hits the surface of the things about me. You would need a book to get to know me, but I will give you the cliff notes here on some important facts.
I was born and lived for 16 years in a small town in Nothern, British Columbia. This last year my family and I moved to Vancouver, which was a change and not at the same time becasue we had a vacation home and had been travelling here for multiple years. So to us, it was a second home, and now we are just living here full-time.
I have had a pretty busy life doing a lot of different things…
One huge thing that has been a part of my life is dance. I have been to dance camps, working one-on-one with instructors, then eventually moved on to open my own studio where I first started private lessons, then I moved on to doing full classes. After about a year of teaching, I soon moved to a bigger space, had around 50 dancers, and taught a half dozen to a dozen classes a week. When I started teaching, I found it amazing to show people how to dance, show them a form of movement, exercise and a way to express emotion. I started teaching as young as two-year-olds and seeing them advance each week was so fun.
I adventured off between dancing and teaching and wanted to try something different.
I entered the Miss Teenage Canada Pageant at the end of Covid when people were allowed to reunite. So, it was a bit different from other people’s experiences. I entered the pageant, not sure what would happen, thinking it would be a fun thing to do.
It was postponed a couple of times when Covid hit, as the first stage of the pageant was supposed to happen in April. Then It finally took place in July 2020. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, and it was so much fun and sort of scary.
I won Miss Nothern British Columbia and made it to Miss Teenage Canada, where I competed with 30 lovely other girls and made it to the top 10 in the competition. And I could probably say I was so happy with that, and it was good enough, but I was pretty upset. I remember leaving that stage and holding back my tears becasue I was so upset I didn’t make it any further. And I walked back to my hotel room, and then I just started crying, and my mom was there for me becasue I did not want to be upset becasue it was stupid, but I just was.
I got over it and then moved on to the next Pageant because that is what you do in the pageant world. I made it in that one and was supposed to go to Florida; however, Covid again postponed it, and then when I was supposed to go, I chose to stay with my family becasue it was more important.
And then I took a step back and looked at the pageant world and everyone in it and decided it was not for me. The people, the competition, it just really was not for me. So, I decided to stop and retire the crown. It was a good three years. And that was good enough for me.
Dance and pageants were a big part of my life, and dance is still huge.
There is so much more about me, but these are two big things.
XOXO
Hadley
